The murder left us with a concussed traumatized mind that needed to forgive and be healed.
The first symptom was our attention to details. It wasn't that we were irresponsible. We just didn't pay attention to bills, income tax, buying clothes, and cleaning the house. Everything paied in the light of murder.
We certainly didn't pay attention to speed limits. We were desperate - in emergency mode and if we had to get anywhere - even to a normal church service - we had to get there quickly. Both Cliff and I racked up speeding tickets like no other time in our lives. Cliff almost lost his license because of speeding tickets - and he was ordinarily a very cautious driver.
Our reaction to the police visit - 22 years later - is the perfect example of the craziness that can occur in our minds.
Our brains are tasked with six main functions: attention, memory, language, problem solving, executive function, and human intelligence. All of which can be fragmented under duress.
Attention
In cognitive science, “attention” refers to all the mechanisms by which the brain selects information, amplifies it, channels it, and deepens its processing. This is an editing process, alarm process.
Memory
Memory is the faculty of the brain by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. Memory is often understood as an informational processing system with explicit and implicit functioning that is made up of a sensory processor, short-term (or working) memory, and long-term memory.
Language - Regions in your frontal, temporal and parietal lobes formulate what you want to say and the motor cortex, in your frontal lobe, enables you to speak the words. Most of this language-related brain activity is likely occurring in the left side of your brain.
Problem Solving
Problem Solving is the function of the brain that takes on the problems by defining it, generating alternative, evaluating and selecting alternatives, and then implementing solutions
Executive Function
Executive Function is that which controls by self regulation, self-control, time management and organization.
Human intelligence
Human intelligence is the mental quality that consists of the abilities to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate one’s environment
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.- Michio Kaku
Application
In this blog I illustrate the role of attention -
In cognitive science, “attention” refers to all the mechanisms by which the brain selects information, amplifies it, channels it, and deepens its processing. This is an editing process, alarm process.
The murder skewed our ability to choose what we needed to focus on - like posted speed signs. Even in the beginning when we first saw the presence on the bed - we chose the word "forgiveness" to refocus our body - and our brain.
Forgiveness means taking control of what we want to focus on - resisting the negativity bias that ties us to the trauma and to choose the freedom of positivity found in forgiveness.
The first symptom was our attention to details. It wasn't that we were irresponsible. We just didn't pay attention to bills, income tax, buying clothes, and cleaning the house. Everything paied in the light of murder.
We certainly didn't pay attention to speed limits. We were desperate - in emergency mode and if we had to get anywhere - even to a normal church service - we had to get there quickly. Both Cliff and I racked up speeding tickets like no other time in our lives. Cliff almost lost his license because of speeding tickets - and he was ordinarily a very cautious driver.
Our reaction to the police visit - 22 years later - is the perfect example of the craziness that can occur in our minds.
Our brains are tasked with six main functions: attention, memory, language, problem solving, executive function, and human intelligence. All of which can be fragmented under duress.
Attention
In cognitive science, “attention” refers to all the mechanisms by which the brain selects information, amplifies it, channels it, and deepens its processing. This is an editing process, alarm process.
Memory
Memory is the faculty of the brain by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. Memory is often understood as an informational processing system with explicit and implicit functioning that is made up of a sensory processor, short-term (or working) memory, and long-term memory.
Language - Regions in your frontal, temporal and parietal lobes formulate what you want to say and the motor cortex, in your frontal lobe, enables you to speak the words. Most of this language-related brain activity is likely occurring in the left side of your brain.
Problem Solving
Problem Solving is the function of the brain that takes on the problems by defining it, generating alternative, evaluating and selecting alternatives, and then implementing solutions
Executive Function
Executive Function is that which controls by self regulation, self-control, time management and organization.
Human intelligence
Human intelligence is the mental quality that consists of the abilities to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate one’s environment
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.- Michio Kaku
Application
In this blog I illustrate the role of attention -
In cognitive science, “attention” refers to all the mechanisms by which the brain selects information, amplifies it, channels it, and deepens its processing. This is an editing process, alarm process.
The murder skewed our ability to choose what we needed to focus on - like posted speed signs. Even in the beginning when we first saw the presence on the bed - we chose the word "forgiveness" to refocus our body - and our brain.
Forgiveness means taking control of what we want to focus on - resisting the negativity bias that ties us to the trauma and to choose the freedom of positivity found in forgiveness.
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