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Reimagining Maps

Your brain wants maps. Like all agents of change, you journey in a landscape that reaches into the future and into the past. As you navigate, your brain will travel on maps of extraordinary depth and dimension. It will access and evolve neural pathways in vast networks filled with connections, each formed from a lived experience—of reward, risk, safety or threat. It's important to understand that, for your brain, this is material success: 3D maps to shape your direction. Indeed, they will shape every aspect of it, from the focus of your attention to your beliefs about what is possible.
The mind is a process. Thankfully, all of our brains have a partner in mapping—one that brings awareness to the maps shaping our experience so that we can shape generative ones. To the brain, this is the value of mind. More a "process" than a place, it emerges in real-time, shaping the flow of emerging resources and connections in the brain. Minding allows us to consciously steward the experiences our brains are mapping. On neural pathways that sustain our resources, we experience safe sensations, images, feelings, and thoughts. Away from these, our experience becomes marked by sensations, images, feelings, and thoughts laden with cues of threat. These maps pull our attention—and narrow our mind.
The experience matters. In spaces where uncertainties feel risky, our brains need safety cues to stay on generative pathways. These cues emerge in the presence of vitality, curiosity, inspiration, clarity, readiness, confidence, compassion, belonging, and/or peace. Our brains actively monitor for a steady flow of these cues in uncharted territory. Without enough of them, any threat cues that are present can trigger our brains' most primitive maps—into states of fight, flee, freeze, or collapse. Sound familiar? If so, you know that threat consciousness limits much more than our experience—it limits our pathways forward.
The future is a resource. By prioritizing our brains' resources, we can partner with our minds to expand our pathways in visionary directions. We can use tools that foster clarity and guide our travels into lived experiences of discovery and breakthrough, shaping maps our brains can trust in uncharted terrain. Maps filled with lived experiences of the future that reveal what's really possible and why we're called to pursue it.
Brainsavvy is your birthright. Human challenges continue to evolve. Thankfully, so do our neural maps, and our understanding of the science we need for the future we face. As stewards of the age of brainsavvy, Hemispheres offers applied science tools that locate and nurture the resources that make us visionary—by consciously using our minds.

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