Category: Brain Health
How to optimize your brain
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Your Amazing Brain
An Amazing Gift! “The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than 100 billion nerve cells and trillion supporting cells that make up your brain and mine constitute the most elaborate structure in the known universe. ~ Joel Davis… Read more
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What Alcohol is and What it Does to Your Body
What is Alcohol? Ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, is produced by fermentation and has been used as a general anesthetic, antiseptic, disinfectant, and as a fuel source for lamps, stoves, and internal combustion engines. Ethanol is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid, it is the active ingredient in alcoholic drinks, as a psychoactive depressant, and the second… Read more
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Is Emotional Intelligence Really a Form of Intelligence?
History of the Debate “The person with the glasses is smart, but the redhead is dumb!” This is a subjective comment (and rude!), yet if heard, we would all understand what the speaker is conveying, namely, that the first person has a high level of intelligence as described by Cambridge Dictionary as, “The ability to… Read more
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Are Mind and Brain the Same?
Does the Brain Produce the Mind? What is the real you? When your body is lying in the morgue, brain within, will you have ceased to exist? The concept of “self” has inspired much thought and debate among people for hundreds of years. The fact that human beings are complex and stand apart from the… Read more
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Become an Organized Person – on Your Terms!
Get Organized with Ease! Have you ever wondered why some people organize their home, schedules, and lives effortlessly while you struggle just to get out the door without forgetting something? Does your dining room table seem to mysteriously grow mountains of paper and miscellaneous accoutrements that seem to cast a condescending glance at you every… Read more
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Never Forget a Name Again!
Stop Telling Your Brain to Forget Names! Have you ever gone to a party, event, or networking meeting where you were introduced to several people only to promptly forget their names? If so, you’re not alone, it happens to most people sometimes if not often! You can say goodbye to that frustrating and often embarrassing… Read more
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Emotions & Feelings: What’s the difference and how to control them
Managing Your Emotions and Feelings Do you ever feel like you are not quite in charge of your inner life? Do you imagine a miniature “mad scientist” sitting at the helm, laughing maniacally at every melt down? Don’t worry, there’s hope! Putting that bully in the backseat where he (or she) belongs can be done… Read more
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How to Breathe Correctly for Optimal Health, Mood, Learning & Performance
A Huberman Lab Resource The respiratory system is unique among brain and bodily functions in that it interfaces between our conscious and our subconscious. Breathing does not require that we pay attention to it or that we are even aware of it (it’s an automatic function like digestion or heartbeat). But, at any moment, we… Read more
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Why Learning Becomes a Chore
The Science Behind It Why do preschoolers LOVE to learn and the rest of us don’t? When does our brain become so resistant to education? There are a couple of reasons. One. Babies’ brains can’t not learn. From birth to about two, our brain absorbs everything, like a sponge, just like people always say. No… Read more
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10 Questions for Finding Yourself
Free Your Brain to Find Your Purpose “You must know yourself to grow yourself.” —John Maxwell Did you go off to find yourself only to come back still lost? Yeah, me too. With no map, it’s hard to find what it is we’re looking for. So here are a few things that will get us… Read more