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Comment by Arlene on February 20, 2011 at 10:17am

An article from NY Times regarding memory.   Just thought this part of it related to the unconscious

 

“I would recommend you check out the literature on speed typing,” he replied.

When people first learn to use a keyboard, they improve very quickly from sloppy single-finger pecking to careful two-handed typing, until eventually the fingers move effortlessly and the whole process becomes unconscious. At this point, most people’s typing skills stop progressing. They reach a plateau. If you think about it, it’s strange. We’ve always been told that practice makes perfect, and yet many people sit behind a keyboard for hours a day. So why don’t they just keeping getting better and better?

In the 1960s, the psychologists Paul Fitts and Michael Posner tried to answer this question by describing the three stages of acquiring a new skill. During the first phase, known as the cognitive phase, we intellectualize the task and discover new strategies to accomplish it more proficiently. During the second, the associative phase, we concentrate less, making fewer major errors, and become more efficient. Finally we reach what Fitts and Posner called the autonomous phase, when we’re as good as we need to be at the task and we basically run on autopilot. Most of the time that’s a good thing. The less we have to focus on the repetitive tasks of everyday life, the more we can concentrate on the stuff that really matters. You can actually see this phase shift take place in f.M.R.I.’s of subjects as they learn new tasks: the parts of the brain involved in conscious reasoning become less active, and other parts of the brain take over. You could call it the O.K. plateau.

 

 

Comment by Kathy Moore on February 20, 2011 at 8:45am

A friend who knows how well my biz is doing, sent me this article. I wanted to share it with all of you who are going strong.

You must be doing something right if this is the trend overall .....    http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/111881/careers-headed-...  Holistic Healers  Alternative medicine specialists like acupuncturists, homeopathic doctors  and hypnotherapists may be an endangered species. The field declined 44%  between 2004 and 2009, losing about 26,000 jobs. Because health insurance  companies typically do not cover these specialties, alternative medicine may  be becoming a more niche, luxury service.

Comment by Karen Dryden on October 17, 2010 at 8:23pm

Wondered if anyone had any more recent articles??

Comment by David Simone on May 8, 2010 at 5:14am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRPCZJdwUTk I love you, Gil Boyne!

Comment by Gretchen Hogg on September 27, 2009 at 11:12am

Thanks for starting this group Bonnie and another great idea for a group. Quick sharing- One thing that I've done is set my google home page for advanced searches for news or articles on hypnosis so that they are emailed to me daily as well as on my delivered to my homepage. It' a quick and easy way to get updates.

Comment by Pattie Freeman CH.t, MST on March 11, 2009 at 1:05am

Great Idea...Glad I am here

Pattie

Comment by Doreen Cohanim C.Ht on January 12, 2009 at 11:19am

Great Idea, Thanks for inviting me.

Doreen

Comment by Bonnie Robinson on November 14, 2008 at 4:41pm

Michael I hope you don't mind but I reposted the article that you originally posted in the main room about A Hypnotic Answer..... as this was the one that first got me thinking about starting this group and thought it would be good to have it in here as well.

Comment by Elizabeth Rose Dye on November 14, 2008 at 2:10am

Thank You Bonnie for the invite. I look forward to another great group!

Comment by Valorie Daniels on November 13, 2008 at 5:59pm

Thanks for inviting me, Bonnie!

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