Calm techniques vs. ‘conventional wisdom’

by Havi Brooks | Sep 10, 2007 | calm techniques, noozletter, working on patterns & habits

Gee, thanks for the paradigm shift Hanging out in the waiting room of my doctor’s office the other day, I meant to catch up on some work. Instead, I got distracted by a handout called “The Top Ten Ways to Calm Down and Get Rid of Stress”. Or...

A communication breakdown and an emergency calm technique

by Havi Brooks | Aug 21, 2007 | calm techniques, noozletter, stucknesses & stuckification

I know you don’t speak Yiddish but Gaaaaaaah! You’re barely two minutes into the conversation and all of a sudden you’re in a fight. Or not in a fight, but irritable enough to get in one. The words have somehow gotten twisted together. Everything is...

The truth about competition

by Havi Brooks | Aug 7, 2007 | calm techniques, noozletter, working on patterns & habits

No, seriously, where are all the nut jobs? I finally got around to watching Word Play last night — a 90 minute homage to “puzzle master” Will Shortz and his wonderful world of crosswordsmithery. “Finally” because everyone I know has...

More ways to work on your patterns

by Havi Brooks | Jul 22, 2007 | noozletter, not hating on yourself, working on patterns & habits

Exacerbating your patterns or learning from them? When I was teaching in Berlin last year, a series of bizarre and marvelous coincidences landed me a house-sitting gig in a gorgeous house in Steglitz, a quiet little neighborhood in the west side of the city. While I...

This is your brain on patterns

by Havi Brooks | Jul 17, 2007 | noozletter, not hating on yourself, working on patterns & habits

Here’s what science tells us about the brain: billions of neurons in a giant network, all capable of connecting and communicating with each other in their cool electrochemical way. In other words, unlimited possibilities. There are unlimited ways that these...

When nothing seems to be working (crank up intuition!)

by Havi Brooks | Jul 7, 2007 | calm techniques, noozletter, working on patterns & habits

When you get that “green light feeling” about something and you run with it, good things happen. The rest of the time, however, you second-guess yourself until it’s second nature. The best way to turn off the fog is to tune in to intuition. Intuition...