Category: Brain Health
How to optimize your brain
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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
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Lovingkindness Meditation
Calm Down While Lifting Others Up Loving Kindness Meditation (LKM) is intended to develop feelings of goodwill and warmth toward others. It has been found to quickly increase positive emotions and decrease negative ones, decrease pain and migraine headaches, reduce symptoms of posttraumatic stress, increase gray matter in the emotional processing areas of the brain, Read more
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5 Things that Harm Your Brain
Your Amazing Brain The brain is the most amazing, complex, energy hungry organ in the universe! Your Brain is Your Most Valuable Commodity!!! DID YOU KNOW? “We only use 10% of our brain” is a myth. We use all of our brain all of the time (admittedly, some more efficiently than others). Consider these statistics Read more
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8 Beliefs That Will Keep You Stuck
… and What to do About It! Beliefs drive behavior. If you want to change what you do, you have to change what you believe! Do any of these sound familiar to you? Belief # 1 I assume I will grow. On the first day of school, the children brought gifts for their teacher.The supermarket Read more
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6 Ways to Improve Your Memory
There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Memory – Only a Trained or Untrained One The region in the brain most associated with memory is the hippocampus and is a major component of the limbic system. We have two hippocampi, one on each temporal lobe and the name is for its shape, which resembles a Read more
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Increase Serotonin Naturally
and Feelings of Wellbeing 6 Ways to increase serotonin naturally: 1. FOOD But it’s not as simple as eating tryptophan-rich foods, thanks to something called the blood-brain barrier. This is a protective sheath around your brain that controls what goes in and out of your brain. But there may be a way to bypass the Read more
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Improve Executive Functioning
Easy Ways to Improve Your CEO Some researchers have even proposed that executive functioning may better predict success than does IQ. The CEO of our life resides in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of our brain and is primarily responsible for the following functions. As you can see, the PFC plays a significant role in success. Read more
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Managing Stress in the Workplace
Before You Do Something You’ll Regret … GOOD STRESS = appreciated and managed stress = compels us to become better and stronger. Stress is what inspires innovation and problem-solving, but sometimes our job isn’t the best source of healthy stress. Even in a great work environment, where opinions differ, stress can move from healthy to Read more
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10 Ways to Calm Down Fast
Calm Yourself Fast Ten ways to make yourself feel better fast when you’re feeling anxious, depressed, stressed, or overwhelmed. They are very simple to do, they work quickly, and they have no downsides. 1. Step Away. Simply removing yourself from a heated situation for a moment can be enough to take your stress response down Read more