Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Folding your arms can help your brain

[6 May 2008 - Canada.com] The mere act of folding your arms increases perseverance and activates an unconscious desire to succeed, new research shows. University students randomly assigned to sit with their arms crossed spent more time on an impossible-to-solve anagram, or word scramble, in one experiment, and came up with more correct solutions to solvable anagrams in another than those told to sit with their hands on their thighs. The study is the first to show that arm crossing affects people's thinking without them being consciously aware of it. Normally, it's thought that it's a psychological state that leads to a body movement. The study suggests it goes both ways, that a body movement also can trigger a psychological state. More

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At June 25, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Blogger Kent Groff said...

I often invite people in seminars to fold their arms across the heart and chest in an X pattern, hands gently resting on opposite shoulders. Imagine that you are embracing the "least parts of yourself" - the characteristics that others diss or that you don't like about yourself. Imagine the arms of the Universe (or God or Christ) blessing your disabilities. It adds a spiritual spin t the kinesthetic renewal this article validates.
Kent Ira Groff

 

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