Human Bandwidth: Awakening the Extraordinary Within

By Gunnar Nilsson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097163680X
• ISBN13: 9780971636804
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Rapid Creek Publishing
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Unusual AND Extraordinary

The subtitle of Gunnar Nilsson's Human Bandwidth is Awakening the Extraordinary Within. And right from the beginning, just picking it up, you realize this will be an unusual book. The page layout, the typeface, the exercises, the graphics and the very shape of the book itself all suggest that this is not the run of the mill self help text. But what makes it indeed extraordinary is the amazing breadth of the content. Nilsson draws on physical science, biology, genetics, psychology, spirituality, and philosophy to make his point: about what it can be to live this life. He posits the idea of bandwidth as a concept for explaining how one can live more consciously, more fully, all the time. Bandwidth components are the senses, the body, emotions, the brain and the mind. He starts in familiar territory -- that we are not our minds and that realizing that what goes on in the mind are simply thoughts. Thoughts shaped inside of us by personal experience, environment, fears, in fact our whole unique and collective history. He explains being present, living in the moment, as the openers for living a fully conscious life. But he then goes on to raise the distinctions between the brain, mind (thoughts) senses, emotions and body itself. All of these combine to produce the human spirit. It's that spirit that for most of us, for too much of the time, is asleep. It is awakened and experienced only on those rare occasions of great joy, sadness, or insight. But by understanding its components we will be able to live more frequently in a higher state of human consciousness. And that's good for us as well as those around us. It drives a richer experience of living day to day and opens every one of us to our potential to create -- for at every moment there is an opportunity for creation. Nilsson explains how our bandwidth comes to be expanded, contracted and how it changes over time. He encourages us to notice, notice everything about ourselves and what's going on around us. Noticing our habits, our reactions to situations, people, and challenges. Having developed this self-noticing we are able to turn it outside to more fully hear and understand others and become sensitive to what is operating in their lives, Human Bandwidth is written in a clear plain-spoken style. For all it's probing of the depths of human complexity, it is incredibly accessible. It's filled with examples, people profiles, and exercises to help readers understand and expand their own bandwidth. This unusual book has the capacity to change lives. And that is really quite extraordinary.