What would it feel like to experience the world again like a childdeeply engaged with our senses and filled with wonder and creativity?
Original Mind takes us on an odyssey back to our "beginner's mind," and into our many undeveloped potentials. Through fascinating research, insights, stories, and engaging practices largely overlooked by other "brain science" books, neuroscience and learning pioneer Dee Joy Coulter challenges us to question the conventional definitions and limitations of our minds, and then to move beyond them. This delight-driven odyssey explores a vast landscape of untapped dimensions of consciousness, including:
How to see again with the fresh wonder of an infant
Calming, Enriching, Magnetizing, and Self-Regulatingfour keys to character development and emotional resilience
How reading profoundly changes our brains, and how to develop the remarkable capacities of the "pre-literate" mind
Engaging the body to enrich the art of thinking
Boredom, Complexity, Ambiguity, Permeability, and Noveltyfive "tolerances" to liberate creativity and joy
Protectingand expandingour cognitive faculties as we age
Blending newfound intuitive skills and "school-learned" abilities to navigate the complex demands of the modern world, and much more