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It’s never too early or too late to uncover the superpowers that are hidden inside you. Using insights from brain research labs, it is possible to sharpen your faculties and empower yourself. Ultra Special Senses (USSs) are a set of perceptive abilities of the brain—they form the building blocks of superpowers. In a conversational style, Dr Anjana Sen reveals how strengthening your fifteen USSs can build reserve capacity for coping, increasing resilience and enhancing leadership attributes. Demystifying courage and self-awareness, the author urges you to align with your USSs to bring out the best in you.
Hurt People ‘Hurt’ People
Hurt People ‘Hurt’ People
USS 6 Pain and Threat Perception
The study is quiet and undisturbed today. I checked and found that Tan Tan isn't here yet, but will certainly turn up. I'm having a sense of imminent disturbance that the will-o’-the-wisp will stir up when he gets here. The prank that startled me threw me off the sequence of the USS discussion, but that doesn't matter as we are still among the structures of the mid-brain, and as we keep reminding ourselves, ‘everything is connected’.
We delve into the phenomenon of pain in this chapter and find many levels of connectors that participate in this protective mechanism. The sensors used are often the same sensory nerve endings that deliver the sensations ...