Productivity And Our Brains

I just came across this from a Wikipedia article discussing physiological cause of procrastination:

" Research on the physiological roots of procrastination mostly surrounds the role of the prefrontal cortex. This area of the brain is responsible for executive brain functions such as planning, impulse control, attention, and acts as a filter by decreasing distracting stimuli from other brain regions. Damage or low activation in this area can reduce an individual's ability to filter out distracting stimuli, ultimately resulting in poorer organization, a loss of attention and increased procrastination. This is similar to the prefrontal lobe's role in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), where underactivation is common."

When we are not being productive it can be so easy to put ourselves down, to think that our personalities are somehow tragically flawed.

Somehow it is encouraging to know that our character is not the whole picture.

Perhaps part of what we need is just higher activation in the prefrontal cortex of our brains.

How do we get that? Stay tuned... I plan to get more information about this soon.

Anything you know about prefrontal cortex activation is welcome in the comments section.

I had a darshan with Mother Meera yesterday. Perhaps that is helpful.