Essentialise Preston - Functional Life Coaching

Here are my musings on how we can work less to become more creative, productive, and have more time to rest and play. With extracts from ‘Rest’. Only in recent history has ‘working hard’ signalled pride rather than shame.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb   MEET YOUR DEFAULT MODE NETWORK (OR DMN)   “These studies convinced … neuroscientists that the resting brain isn’t inactive. The brain automatically switches on a default mode network (DMN), a series of interconnected sections that activate as soon as people stop concentrating on external tasks, and shifts from outward-focused to inward-focused cognition. As they’ve explored it further, scientists have realised that the DMN and resting-state are doing critical work on our behalf. … In other words, a set of activities that we’re not conscious of (pretty much by definition), and which we didn’t even know existed until the 1990s, turns out to be implicated in just about every significant cognitive and emotional activity. Intel...

Here are my musings on how we can focus our concentration and attention to get deep work done and have more time and energy to live a fulfilling life. With extracts from ‘Deep Work’. “The Deep Work Hypothesis: The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.   DEEP WORK VS. SHALLOW WORK “Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate. Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity. We now know from decades of research in both psychology and neuroscience that the state of mental strain that accompanies deep work is also necessary to improve your ...

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Here are my musings on how we can become mindful, find peace, enjoy the present and breakthrough our limits. With extracts from ‘Mindfulness’. “Meditation is a tool to achieve post-meditative mindfulness. Regardless of how we get there, either through meditation or more directly by paying attention to novelty and questioning assumptions, to be mindful is to be in the present, noticing all the wonders that we didn’t realize were right in front of us.” DON’T BE DETERRED BY FALSE LIMITS – BECOME MINDFUL “When we think of resources being limited, we often think of our own abilities. Here, too, our notion of limits may inhibit us. We may push ourselves to what we believe are our limits, in swimming, public speaking, or mathematics. However, whether they are true limits is not determinable. It may be in our best interest to proceed as though these and other abilities might be improved upon so that at least we will not be deterred by false limits. It was once assumed that humans c...

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Here are my musings on how changing our breathing with breathwork can transform our life for the better. With extracts from ‘Perfect Breathing’. THE COMMON DENOMINATOR OF LIFE “What is it that enables a mountain climber to reach the highest points on earth, allows a fighter pilot to stay conscious through the pull of a jet’s turn eight times greater than gravity? What guides the archer’s arrow to the mark, or enables a ballet dancer to appear to be lighter than air? What carries a seeker to the innermost realms of spirit, and has been recognized for centuries as one of the most potent healing agents available to mankind? The breath. For something so simple, automatic, and for most people, unconscious, breathing carries with it great power. It is the single most dynamic energy conversion in the human body and fuels every one of your cells. Every neuron, every synapse, every muscle feeds on the flame of your breath. Breathing is not only critical to sustaining life but done co...

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