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Explore the fascinating interplay of intuition and insight as understood through recent neuroscience research. Insights arise from a balance of focus and relaxation, allowing us to tap into our subconscious knowledge. This journey delves into how emotional relevance influences understanding, highlighting the brain areas involved in processing and conveying knowledge. We examine the interplay of internal and external stimuli, the "Aha!" moments, and how everyday experiences shape our neural networks. Learn practices to enhance your intuitive abilities and transform your perception of knowledge.
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Intuition Knowing the Unknown Richard Hill www.richardhill.com.au
In TuitionIn Sight Below the threshold of emotional relevance or Non-verbally expressible ‘perceptions’ or Consciously (reflectively) aware Language – visceral to verbal
Mark Jung-Beeman & John KouniosNorthwestern University Drexal University 1. Focus – attention to a single element 2. Relaxation – to allow activity and accessibility to obscure associations
Henri Pointcare – realised a seminal insight in Euclidian geometry while boarding a bus. Richard Feynman physicist would frequent a topless bar and wait for inspiration to strike.
Mark Jung-Beeman & John Kounios 1. Focus – attention to a single element 2. Relaxation – to allow activity and accessibility to obscure associations Pre Frontal Cortex Right Anterior Superior temporal gyrus
The conductor of neural activity Activates the search for information even when distracted by other tasks Earl Miller MIT Unusually active about 1 second before awareness Of an insight Jung-Beeman & Kounios
Medial Pre Frontal Cortex Daniel Siegel The Mindful Brain 42-44 • Body regulation • Attuned communication • Emotional balance • Response flexibility • Empathy • Insight • Fear modulation • Intuition • Morality
Joydeep Bhattacharya (London) steady rhythms of Alpha waves - 8 seconds bursts of gamma waves (parietal cortex) – 1 second Aha!
Knowledgeoception knowl.edge.o.cep.tion – the process whereby the stimulus of a new piece of information or knowledge (which includes facts, opinions, experience, emotions and body awareness) triggers a range of interactions with existing elements of knowledge, creating expanded perceptions that exceed the sum of the parts. Initially felt as a flash of insight, these interactions establish new, neural integrated systems which form deeper understanding, broader awareness, stronger convictions, additional unrelated thoughts, new world views and, ultimately, a deeper and wider scope of wisdom. AHA!
Mind A process that regulates the flow of energy and information Mindset
8 DIFFERENCES • Inclusion • Lessons/Opportunities • Information • Inspiration • Outcome • Possibility • Interaction • Confidence • Exclusion • Events • Instruction • Competition • Result • Probability • Transaction • Arrogance
7 DEMONS • Right & Wrong • Good & Bad • Expectation • Fault & Blame • Criticism • Isolation & Separation • Guilt
7 BENEFITS • Hugs • Gentle talk • Listening • Laughter • Co-operation • Achievable tasks • Love & Kindness
6 Practices • That’s interesting • The problem is a message • What can I create with that? • Tell me everything in your head • The priority triangle • Random inspiration
Free Won’t • Benjamin Libet (1970’s & 80’s) • Finger lifting experiment • 500ms
Mirror Neurons Inferior Parietal Lobule Pre Motor Cortex PF/PFG - macaque Inferior Frontal Gyrus Superior Temporal Sulcus - visual input Iacoboni and Dapretto Redgrave Nature Reviews Neuroscience7, 942–951 (December 2006) | doi:10.1038/ nrn2024
Conscious awareness Emotional relevance – from visceral to verbal
NOCICEPTION PROPRIOCEPTION NEUROCEPTION KNOWLEDGOCEPTION
KNOWLEDGE Empirical Factual Intuitive Perceptive Conceptual Known Unknown TRANSFORMATIONAL