What's Going On Inside My Head?: A Let’s Talk picture book to start conversations with your child about positive mental health

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Each of us perceives things in their unique way. It is impossible to tell if the other person sees the red color, feels an ocean’s breeze, and tastes an apple the same way you do. These unique experiences—things we see, hear, and feel in our own way—are called qualia.

In practice, this meant high-powered computing could generate maps of these protons. Even better, brain blood vessel flow and brain function could be studied. There are peaks and valleys of focus throughout the day, and this corresponds with the ebb and flow of our attentional resources,” Mark explained. “And so to me, it makes the most sense for people to become aware of what your own natural rhythm is, for when you are best able to apply your attentional resources and also when it’s time to pull away to replenish.” Concepts also help us communicate and understand each other. When a friend asks you to hand them an apple, you probably know which action they want from you and which object they refer to. The brain is responsible for sending signals to the rest of the body that allow us to feel sensations. So when there is a problem with the brain, like a tumor, it can cause problems with sensation in different parts of the body. This can manifest as numbness, tingling, or other changes in sensation in the face, arms, hands, legs, and feet. How did you know you had a brain tumor? Prototypes and concepts can change, expand, or transform. For example, 50 years ago, the concept of a phone probably looked like this for many people:So now I must ask you a question – “how positive is your relationship with the voice inside your head?” Fortunately, the imaging revolution was not far away. During a remarkable decade from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, X-ray computed tomography (CT) took us all to another level. Yes, your mother was right: Getting a good night’s sleep before an important project will help you get and stay focused. Rest helps our executive function skills — the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus and remember — keep sharp. A 2013 review by Hurlburt and his colleagues points to huge individual differences between people in how much time they spend talking to themselves in their head that have been uncovered through studies using DES. The average frequency of inner speaking across those who took part in the research, at 23%, masks a huge range: from 100% – i.e. for some people, every time they were sampled they had some kind of internal monologue or inner conversation going on – to 0% – i.e. some people were never speaking to themselves internally. Spending time with good friends or family who cheer me up is one of my favourite things to do when I’m upset.

The cerebellum is responsible for coordinating movement and balance. The limbic system, on the other hand, is responsible for regulating emotions. However, let the mind-body problem concern philosophers. There is probably no scientific answer to it because the human mind is highly subjective. Welcome to On the brain, a new Conversation series by people whose job it is to know as much as there is to know about the body’s most complex organ. Here, Professor Geoffrey Donnan, a world-renowned stroke researcher and director of the Florey Neuroscience Institute, summarises major highlights in brain diagnoses and ponders the future of treatments for brain disease. Enjoy. The consciousness and the mind are related concepts—although not entirely the same thing. Being conscious means being aware of yourself, your feelings, thoughts, sensations, memories, and environment.The most straightforward answer is to reduce everything to the physical matter the world is made of. This approach, known as reductive physicalism, explains every aspect of the mind in terms of neurons, hormones, and neurotransmitters. It is the logic by which doctors prescribe medication to change the chemistry of neuron interaction—and through it affect the behavior. Memory is a fascinating thing. Many brain regions are working together to help you remember and recall loads of information before an important exam—and forget the moment it is over. Cognition: thinking Where will it end? My view is that we’re at the beginning of an even more wonderful period of the flowering of the neurosciences. I wouldn’t share what was going on inside my mind with anyone because I genuinely thought that no one would want to hear it. However, his friends and employers noticed many changes to his personality: they reported that he became “fitful and irreverent,” “indulging in the grossest profanity,” “impatient and capricious.” Some went as far as to say that he was “no longer Gage.”

That’s why I wanted to talk to my friend and unburden myself and it was amazing. In 10 minutes time, the cloud had lifted, whatever, all these things that have been accumulating over the last three years, they just disappeared. You can do that too with a small group, a friend. They can help you understand what’s going on inside your head and make the adjustment. Imagine that you have a whiteboard in your mind, and for every task we do, we have a mental model of what that task is. … And then I suddenly switch, and I do another task: I have to erase that whiteboard and rewrite new information for the new task. And I switch again. I have to erase and rewrite. And just like on a real whiteboard, sometimes you can’t erase it completely,” Mark explained. It wasn’t until I ventured outside of my head and spoke to someone about it, actually opened up and sought another opinion, that I realised what I had been doing to myself for so many years. We pay attention to what our goals are. If my goal is that I want to write a paper, that’s what I pay attention to,” she said, adding that it helps if the goals are clear, easily visualized and attainable. If there's something that you're so intimate with, you never really stopped to think about it – it's not surprising that when you look at it, it's more interesting than you thought,” says Charles Fernyhough, a psychologist at the University of Durham and author of The Voices Within.Anxiety can manifest in a variety of physical symptoms, including excessive yawning, hyperventilation, brain shivers or zaps, phantom vibrations, tremors, derealization, and globus hystericus. Additionally, anxiety can cause problems with vision, such as blurred vision or tunnel vision. Why does it say that? Well, we know that the Hebrew word for heart literally means the inner man. Technically the intellect, the mind, the will and then the emotions, all of the things that make up the inner man. Today, we probably would talk more about the mind than the heart, but the idea is that it’s everything that’s within us and the Bible says, “Above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it.” Good morning, men. Please turn in your Bibles to Colossians 2:8. Four months ago, I was having a conversation with a really good friend and during the course of that discussion, he said to me, “I don’t feel like people care about me, only what I can do for them,” and I was flabbergasted. I mean, I know that I care very much about him. I know his wife very well and I know she loves him to death. I know his children, I know they idolize him and love him deeply. When considering the drivers of the tremendous advances in neuroscience in this fairly brief period of time, imaging is an absolute standout. The other two critical components have been the unravelling of cellular biology generally and the revolution that has occurred in the genetics of disease. Whatever was happening, it’s likely that your true inner experience – what you were thinking about just before you started trying to figure out what you were thinking about – is now lost to the mists of time.

For example, the left and right frontal lobes govern many crucial aspects of personality. There was a very famous case that highlighted this particular connection to neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. The Big Idea; The four voices in your head are the world, the flesh, the devil and the Holy Spirit. Your job is to figure out which one is speaking and make the adjustment. I look forward to doing deep dives on these voices with you in the weeks ahead. Let’s go ahead and pray. Qualia start with our mind’s ability to perceive sensory information. After receiving the information from sensory organs, our brain interprets and organizes it to make a complete image of reality around us.There’s nothing new going on in the world, only the Holy Spirit can remind you of that. Ephesians 1:11 says that, “God is working out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,” everything. Only the voice of the spirit through the word of God can calm us. When we look at current events and just look at all the chaos that’s out in the world right now, especially in 2020, it’s amazing. But the voice of the Holy Spirit can calm us in all these things. These are the four voices that are in our heads. The conversation is affected by these four voices, the world, the flesh, the devil and the Holy Spirit.