Educating the child's unconscious: A proposal for the primary school.
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neurological unconscious, character strengths, limiting beliefs handwriting, executive attention, stories, songs. Neuro-Calligraphic ProgrammingAbstract
Educating the child's unconscious is possible and recommended to improve the character and vital intelligence of boys and girls between 6 and 12 years old. A methodology is proposed that uses three tools, which in no case imply an increase in the economic budget of the schools, nor an extra investment of time on the part of teachers, given that they are usually already used in primary education: learn calligraphy, children's stories and ad hoc songs. It is intended to adapt the Neuro-Calligraphic Programming (NCP), for the re-education of the cognitive and emotional unconscious of adults for Primary School, with statistically significant results in the VIA Test of the 24 Character Strengths, which two of the most emblematic representatives of positive psychology, Martin Seligman and Cris Petersen, created in 2004 (1). The approach is based on the assumption that the brain and intelligence direct behaviour to solve problems that affect survival and well-being. This article adopts the notion of personality at three levels (2): temperament (genetically inherited), character (learned through experience and education), and chosen personality (trained to live intelligently). In addition to focusing on the education of conscious character, which represents only 5% of our thinking capacity, the «3C» method also and above all aims to educate the neurological unconscious of boys and girls, through the automation of habits. positive. The basal ganglia, which facilitate fine motor skills and the integration of thoughts and emotions, are crucial in this process. The hippocampus and thalamus are also taken into account to, respectively, rewrite the scripts of biography in those aspects that involve limiting beliefs, and redirect executive attention in those cases that are biased towards a dysfunctional negative vision.
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