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Key takeaway: > They had all kinds of neuro training exercises and routines they put me through, but a lot of it was centered around meditation and intense emo

Key takeaway: > They had all kinds of neuro training exercises and routines they put me through, but a lot of it was centered around meditation and intense emotional therapy sessions. The exercises and therapy were to stimulate the parts of my brain that were running slow, and the mediation was to slow down the parts of my brain that were going a mile a minute. I guess that is how they reset his brain. I need the same thing. Three years and still recovering, I have counted five bottlenecks in getting there. 1. Fear of memories, 2. Ego/arrogance, 3. Imbalanced thought pattern, 4. Mental unrest, 5. Lack of stimulating activities. Now that I think of it, the author has described the same thing. Meditation has worked wonders. I have combined it with philosophy and reasoning. I am also trying to identify and reduce areas of ego. Stimulating activities is a recent discovery but I am still working at finding stuff for it. And the results are interesting: before my mind was on infinite replay, then had a hard time remembering stuff, and now memories from when I was one years old are coming back like it happened yesterday. That never happened!

jeremywho 9y ago
Do you have a routine you follow? Any chance of getting a more detailed account of what activities you're doing for each?
- Scalestein 9y ago
  I'll second this, especially the bit about bringing memories back. I haven't had much head trauma but don't really have any memories from longer than 5 years previous.
  - nashashmi 9y ago
    This is difficult to answer in a post like this, but I will try. The problem is that for every technique or idea I put here, there will be a dozen who disagree, but I won't care. Meditation: Put yourself in an uncomfortable balancing position, like tip toeing. Any trembling is a symptom of subconscious issues, so clear your mind and you will be able to balance without much effort. Add stress to the balancing act to uncover the more subtle subconscious problems. This should begin the healing process. The issues were pulling at you even when you least realize it and cause much damage and tension to the brain. Meditation reduces bottlenecks 1, 3, 4. Philosophy/Reasoning: Watching dog whisperer, I am learning calm assertive energy techniques. Reduce your hyper self. Don't take action from a fearful, frustrated, angry, or low-self estem position. Because then you are in a compromised state. Don't react, and if you do, know that nothing you do when you are reacting counts. Reaction is not bad by itself. It just causes actions that would not have happened in a calm state. In moments of a highly reactive state, remove yourself from the situation and clear your mind. Try to figure what frustrates you or makes you fearful and disassemble it into small manageable parts that you reason through one by one. Reduce your ego: Meditation is clearing your mind. Philosophy and Reasoning loosens the viscosity of the toxic liquid. Ego is the shell that protects it and keeps you in an entangled state. Although ego is normal and makes you human, too much ego puts you into a state of arrogance. Loosen the arrogance. Eliminate the arrogance. Remind yourself that nothing you do is amazing and all that you have is a priveledge and was given to you and was never yours to begin with. Then reduce your ego. Think of all your skills and abilities as something you have done a thousand times, a million times, and it lost its awe. Do you have ego in your ability to walk? So why do you have ego in everything else? Stimulating activities: I am new at this, so I am still trying to figure this one out. PH.D. research stuff and logic gets me excited. (It also brings back ego, arrogance, fear, etc.) Problem solving gets me excited. Being better than everyone else gets me excited. (THE conundrum!). If I can preserve the first three steps, or the longer I can mantain it, the more I benefit from a stimulating activity. So that is my attempt and my mind is somewhat healing. I hope you make it out alright. A few things on the side: a messy room, or a messy essay, or a messy thought process is a reflection of your state of mind. Coming to terms with your inabilities brings rest to your mind. Collapsing from a highly skilled intellectual position means you have to rebuild yourself up. If the skills and confidence you developed was scaffolded with one on top of another, then your recovery will be painful. Don't scaffold again this time. Hope all this helps.
    - mistermann 9y ago
      Very interesting, thanks for writing it up. Did you learn this approach through trial and error or were you following some teachings?
naasking 9y ago
> Stimulating activities is a recent discovery but I am still working at finding stuff for it. Listen to music and learn an instrument, play chess, learn new languages, memory exercises, physical exercise, meditation. I think that hits most of the high points I've read about cognitive stimulation.

jeremywho 9y ago

Do you have a routine you follow? Any chance of getting a more detailed account of what activities you're doing for each?

Scalestein 9y ago
I'll second this, especially the bit about bringing memories back. I haven't had much head trauma but don't really have any memories from longer than 5 years previous.
- nashashmi 9y ago
  This is difficult to answer in a post like this, but I will try. The problem is that for every technique or idea I put here, there will be a dozen who disagree, but I won't care. Meditation: Put yourself in an uncomfortable balancing position, like tip toeing. Any trembling is a symptom of subconscious issues, so clear your mind and you will be able to balance without much effort. Add stress to the balancing act to uncover the more subtle subconscious problems. This should begin the healing process. The issues were pulling at you even when you least realize it and cause much damage and tension to the brain. Meditation reduces bottlenecks 1, 3, 4. Philosophy/Reasoning: Watching dog whisperer, I am learning calm assertive energy techniques. Reduce your hyper self. Don't take action from a fearful, frustrated, angry, or low-self estem position. Because then you are in a compromised state. Don't react, and if you do, know that nothing you do when you are reacting counts. Reaction is not bad by itself. It just causes actions that would not have happened in a calm state. In moments of a highly reactive state, remove yourself from the situation and clear your mind. Try to figure what frustrates you or makes you fearful and disassemble it into small manageable parts that you reason through one by one. Reduce your ego: Meditation is clearing your mind. Philosophy and Reasoning loosens the viscosity of the toxic liquid. Ego is the shell that protects it and keeps you in an entangled state. Although ego is normal and makes you human, too much ego puts you into a state of arrogance. Loosen the arrogance. Eliminate the arrogance. Remind yourself that nothing you do is amazing and all that you have is a priveledge and was given to you and was never yours to begin with. Then reduce your ego. Think of all your skills and abilities as something you have done a thousand times, a million times, and it lost its awe. Do you have ego in your ability to walk? So why do you have ego in everything else? Stimulating activities: I am new at this, so I am still trying to figure this one out. PH.D. research stuff and logic gets me excited. (It also brings back ego, arrogance, fear, etc.) Problem solving gets me excited. Being better than everyone else gets me excited. (THE conundrum!). If I can preserve the first three steps, or the longer I can mantain it, the more I benefit from a stimulating activity. So that is my attempt and my mind is somewhat healing. I hope you make it out alright. A few things on the side: a messy room, or a messy essay, or a messy thought process is a reflection of your state of mind. Coming to terms with your inabilities brings rest to your mind. Collapsing from a highly skilled intellectual position means you have to rebuild yourself up. If the skills and confidence you developed was scaffolded with one on top of another, then your recovery will be painful. Don't scaffold again this time. Hope all this helps.
  - mistermann 9y ago
    Very interesting, thanks for writing it up. Did you learn this approach through trial and error or were you following some teachings?

naasking 9y ago

> Stimulating activities is a recent discovery but I am still working at finding stuff for it. Listen to music and learn an instrument, play chess, learn new languages, memory exercises, physical exercise, meditation. I think that hits most of the high points I've read about cognitive stimulation.