Too Many Tasks Rattle Our Brain

You've heard people say, "My mind's on so many things to do, I don't know where to start!" Well, there's evidence pointing out that it's not wise to try to do too many things at a time. Too many tasks rattles the brain. Being well (or getting that way) calls for common sense as well as attention on what one does. Trying to crowd 25 hours into a 24-hour day often causes real problems -- causes bad reaction to the many stressors to which we all are subjected. Recent evidence shows that trying to do two or more mentally demanding tasks at a time, such as carrying on two conversations with different subject matter, may be self-defeating, burning up too much total brain power than if only one conversation is held at time, deferring the other. People become real touchy when their total brain power is drained off by multi-tasking -- making them more prone to errors, to lose patience (some call it temper), and generally causing them more fatigue than is wise. The evidence is pointing to the need to be more wise in how we arrange our tasks. It tells us to "chill out." The evidence points out that in some instances dividing or occupying one's attention with too many tasks can be dangerous -- like when pilots have to pay attention to too many crucial events in flying their airplanes, they are prone to errors and poor reaction time. I don't know about you, but I sure want the pilot who's in the cockpit of any plane I'm occupying to be real "chilled out", cool, calm and collected. I want him to be thinking about how to get me and all the others to our destination without any mishap! On this subject: I wonder whether any of us ever thinks of ourselves as needing some "down time" to meditate on our importance and to assess our need to preserve ourselves from our own follies? Seems to me that more of us would be a lot happier if we would stop awhile along the multi-task highway and view the scenery more often and longer. What do you think? Worth considering?

Why is it that so much advertising telling of remedies for gastric distress, digestive problems, weight loss plans or other such drivel come to us during our meal times? Why are there so many articles for us to read of all the "bad things" that can happen to us -- high blood pressure, heart attacks, cancer or other chilling conditions? Why aren't there more articles for us to read of the good things that can (and do) happen instead? Why does the news on television seem so much to be about deaths from shootings, drownings, automobile accidents, plane crashes, murders, suicides and the like? There seems to be so much doom and gloom in the news. How many have lately heard or read about big time successes, happy events, about Mrs. Jones having a healthy baby boy (or girl), about a boy (or girl) scout jamboree, about little Johnny catching his first fish, or Danae going on her first big date? How about Dustin's getting his first bicycle? And wasn't it great that Martin Smith got the raise he so needed to pay for his little girl's new glasses? Why all the stress-causing stuff? Why not tell of the relaxing stuff? Wouldn't good news and happy, relaxing stuff be more apt to assure The Better Life? Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

The search to restore neural connections in the brain has been spurred by two recent developments. One was the isolation of stem cells, the primordial cells from which all other cells develop, that can potentially be grown into neural cells for transplantation. One encouraging finding is that the newly developed cells migrate to their proper place in the brain where they are needed to repair the damage or deficit. A second development was the discovery that adult brains continue to produce new cells, overturning earlier beliefs that brain cells are not replenished. This latter finding is most encouraging. From this, we can hope for some to have The Better Life from the findings of science and application of those findings. Though this is true, we must never lose sight of the fact that man doesn't create or discover anything that already hasn't been created to be discovered, and having been discovered, to be applied.  God has already created it; we only use what He created.

Our critical day is not the very day  of our death, but the whole course of our course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live." - John Donne

Two of the most vexing conditions that face our society are the anxieties and depressions. Mental healthcare providers (and, for that matter most physical healthcare providers) see patients for these two conditions more often than for any other condition -- or find that they are the basis for or aggravate other conditions. They play their terrible parts in what is called stress (a generic term that really describes our reaction to stressors.) Most don't consider that there's good stress as well as bad. Remarkably good and bad stress involve virtually the same physical reactions, though. For a good description of stress, tension and relaxation go to The Shrink's pages on them. There are "pamphlets" there for you to read and that explains them. Good reading.

My late wife's Credo

Let no child be demeaned, nor have his wonder diminished, because of our ignorance or inactivity. Let no child be deprived of discovery, because we lack the resources to discover his problems. Let no child - ever - doubt himself or his mind because we are unsure of our commitments. -- Alan Martin

Being well depends greatly on knowing where to get information to help you on your way. I am listing several Websites that cover a variety of physical (and psychological) issues. Going to them should help you gain knowledge of great importance. Don't forget to come back when you are enlightened of them -- my enlightening has value to you, too!

Watch That Drug
U. S. Health & Human Services
On Health
Physical Health
WebMD

In keeping with our plan to prevent having to read too much on a single page, I'll continue giving interesting information regarding how The Better Life can be reached by using or applying man's discoveries. I'll offer you more pages to continue my telling of them. To make it more interesting I’ll include some simple graphics like this spray of daisies.  God’s creations are so prominent on our world – our world! There is no other in the universe like it. Still, one never knows much of God’s plan. Perhaps he has other worlds He created – still, I’ll wager it’s not as beautiful as ours!