Count to 10 before you speak

My kids are sensitive, they cry, and I would rather they let it out than keep it in

I went to an amazing training today as part of my orientation to teach PE at a middle school in my community.  I have been teaching for over 15 years, I have gone into classrooms, but this is my first time working for the school and teaching a variety of grades as the Physical Education teacher.  I am so inspired by the focus of the school and staff to instill the students with confidence, respect, and to really connect with each individual student.  In today's training there was a section about psychology, there was a study about how the brain makes a cognitive decision, and then has a reaction, and the brain does not calculate that emotional reaction for 10 seconds.  So if there is a situation in class or anywhere else in life where emotions flare up, if you stop and count to 10, you can focus on the positive, and address it from a different cognitive perspective, and it will change the way you respond.  I found this very powerful, here is a quote that seems similar to what he was talking about, I love the science of everything.

"One significant finding of modern studies is that a person's brain seems to commit to certain decisions before the person becomes aware of having made them. Researchers have found delays of about half a second (discussed in sections below). With contemporary brain scanning technology, other scientists in 2008 were able to predict with 60% accuracy whether subjects would press a button with their left or right hand up to 10 seconds before the subject became aware of having made that choice."

Read more at this link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will.

I find this so powerful because it can affect everything from family life to war, it can affect how we approach everything in life.  Education and Self Evaluation are the only way that each person can consciously commit to growing, learning, and treating everyone around them with respect, and really listening to one another.

I found it fascinating,
It is intense scientific research,
Our bodies and minds are miracles,
The most amazing part is we do have quite a bit of control over both,
Our genetics and environments do not seal our fate,
Think about that,
Coach Yulia