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Thinking
Thoughts and feelings are the art and the craft of the human brain. Similar to the lungs, heart, and stomach, the brain works to transform energy. We feed the brain with nutrients drawn from the food that we eat, with the energy of great ideas that we harvest from people, with the sights, sounds, and movement around us, and with the information in books and other media. Some of this energy is filed away in the brain as data to be drawn on at some appropriate time in the future. The rest is available for daily functioning, for making plans, solving problems, for incubating dreams, and for making connections.
Scientific research demonstrates the energy use of the thinking brain. When a person is connected to an EEG (a machine that measures brain activity), the various patterns of thinking or non-thinking reveal different electrical impulses. Think "hard"--and there is an increase in brainwave frequency. Think "soft"--and see that the brain waves slow down. After a day of headwork you will feel physically tired, because thinking takes energy.
This section focuses on the power of thinking. It relates thinking to physical and mental health, and offers some creative options for using thinking to improve your wellbeing.
Thinking is the 7th of the 12 dimensions of wellness in the Wellness Inventory.
See the wellness wheel below which represents the Wellness Energy System.
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