Recession Chaos? Hey, Use Your Brains!
Aren’t we all worrying endlessly and banging our heads against a wall, knowing well that the frightening recession would not disappear in the foreseeable future? We are repeatedly told: “Jobs are scarce. Housing is a mess. And the difficulty of making money threatens our comfort and leaves us feeling anxious and stressed.”
What is the way out? Pray that Barack Obama and Co, and other world leaders, would bail us out? Or is there any other possibility? Is self-help the best help? Yes, says Dr. Srinivasan Pillay in a well argued write-up in The Huffington Post.
Pillay writes: “At times like these, we may hear advice columnists tell us to ‘visualize success’ or to ‘imagine our greatest possibilities’. While this is inspiring, is there actually a science behind this?
“The brief answer to this question is: Yes. Although visualization was regarded as ‘new age hype’ for many years, research has shown that there is a strong scientific basis for how and why visualization works. It is now a well-known fact that we stimulate the same brain regions when we visualize an action and when we actually perform that same action.”
Dr. Srinivasan Pillay is an internationally recognized executive coach, public speaker, psychiatrist, and brain imaging researcher who is focused on the fields of personal and organizational transformation.
He is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has a clinical practice in Cambridge, MA. (Full bio here…)
