Michaelene D Conner

Unique traits: My thinking/creative skills My athletic ability

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  GOOD BRAIN BAD BRAIN YOUR BRAIN (2015)
  Internet by Coach Michaelene Conner author Good Brain Bad Brain Your Brain, allows the general public to grasp a non-medical but validated means to understand how the brain talks to us. Conner has spent 25 years observing real-world experiences, drawing on cutting edge research, and authoring many articles about how the brain operates. This book combines the science and the humanistic, reinforcing the notion that consciousness cannot be separated from the body by presenting compelling scientific evidence that what we think can change our future self. The reader will be presented with the daily circumstances every human is confronted with along with the introspective perspectives used by the brain to interpret day-to-day situations, actions and the neurology of those behaviors. Conner states that our brains cling to established patterns of thinking in order to pursue the illusion of being able to forecast the future, while instead we should be focused on questioning and developing new patterns of thinking that will allow us to quickly and effectively respond to life’s unforeseen events as they occur. Good Brain Bad Brain Your Brain will take the reader through the progression of “what” and “how” our six senses and emotions affect the brain’s habitual patterns of behavior and the new mindset necessary to prepare for navigating the dramatic transition required to shift those embedded neurological patterns. New thinking represents the framework for rational change, mental constructs of consciousness and gives us the capability to rewrite those constructs. Conner points to the simple fact that our brain’s decisions are a finely tuned blend of both feelings and perceptions and our actions or reactions are a precise mix depending on the specific circumstances. Because each person’s genetic blueprint is different, Conner has focused on how to change rather than what must change. She suggests that brain change of a human self becomes challenged when faced with information different from the brain’s ingrained view of reality. This new and sometimes conflicting information prompts a radical break in thinking effecting a narrowing of perception. Yet learning to manage this shifting view of reality can become a source of learning allowing the brain to revisit and rewrite new levels of life regulation. Conner leaves no doubt that the brain’s mental blueprint for change is genetically well established from birth. Good Brain Bad Brain Your Brain is all about the brain’s capability to rethink well-established patterns of behaviors in order to curate a state of mental stability while preserving physical and emotional energy. Above all, this book provides a mental roadmap to becoming more fully engaged in life, physically energized, emotionally connected, and mentally focused. Conner’s goal is to help each reader question how the brain settled on a decision and what can be done to improve on those decisions. She leaves you with the reality that the human condition is always vulnerable to stresses and cannot prevent life’s disruptions, but learning the skills necessary to bounce back quickly will prepare the brain to navigate the transitions critical to influencing thinking, which influences alternatives, which influences actions, allowing us to reinvent the ways and means of achieving and magnifying a new future self.

• University of Maryland - College Park
  (1973-1976)