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HARD-WIRED FOR COLLABORATION: PHYSICAL TOUCH INCREASES PERFORMANCE

Physical touch stengthens creative problem solving and performance. In Born To Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life (Norton, 2009), Dacher Keltner cites research indicating that simply giving a reassuring physical touch (a high-five, a chest bump, a shoulder pat) can increase performance on the basketball court, in intimate relationship, in the classroom, everywhere! Humans are wired to seek collaborative effort to "share the load" of problem solving.

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“WHY CRY?” PART 4: CRYING FOR A VISION, OPENING OUR EYES TO TRUTH

David Michael Levin's book, The Opening of Vision, and particularly the Chapter "Crying For A Vision," is discussed as pointing to the importance of crying in allowing us to experience truth, to be touched and moved, to experience care and compassion, to "see" what must be seen and to act accordingly.

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INTUITIVE FOCUSING: OVERCOMING ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, OVERWHELM, AND NUMBNESS CAUSED BY AN OVERLOAD OF NEGATIVE SITUATIONS

Intuitive Focusing can help us go from numbness, overwhelm, confusion to an understanding of the "pile-ups" of negative situations and "spirals" of negative thinking causing these emotional states. Intuitive Focusing allows release from stress and clear paths to action.

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INTUITIVE FOCUSING: RELIEVING STRESS OF INTERPERSONAL SITUATIONS

Creative Edge Focusing teaches two basic self-help skills, Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening which can be applied at home and at work to increase creativity, decrease stress, resolve conflict, and facilitate innovative problem solving. Here we learn a specific exercise for reducing the stress left from interpersonal situations called "Getting A Felt Sense," accessing right-brain, intuitive knowledge.

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