Imagine this: thinking about exercise strengthens your muscles, even if you don’t move an inch. Mental imagery not only activates the same brain regions as the actual movement but also can speed up the learning of a new skill. Mental imagery and sports performance Mental imagery, mental practice, or visualisation is a technique… Continue Reading
Creating a meaningful and purposeful life is an essential ingredient of human wellbeing. But how do you discover who you are and why you’re here? Pick up any self-help book written in the past 50 years and you’ll be told that the best way to learn about yourself is to spend time on introspection or… Continue Reading
We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can – if we want it enough. But is that true? In this piece Will Storr (with thanks to the creative comms licence) wades through the facts and fiction. For years she had tried to be the perfect wife and mother but now, divorced, with… Continue Reading
Last year I flew home to New Zealand for an old friend’s 40th birthday (life is too short not to celebrate, right?). At Sydney airport I picked up Norman Doidge’s latest book ‘The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity.‘ I’m reading it with my usual healthy dose of… Continue Reading
Don’t have time to exercise? Remember the blog post I wrote about Tony Abbott, Barak Obama and Richard Branson and how they find time every day to exercise? I believe success goes hand in hand with exercise because the world’s most successful people exercise every day. President Obama, possibly one of the world’s busiest people, works… Continue Reading
At the time of publishing this blog post I’m in Marrakesh with my family about to start month three of our travels! So I’m very grateful to once again publish an article from a guest blogger. This week’s post comes from Dr Matt Tomlinson a research scientist who has over a decade of lab work… Continue Reading
Today’s blog comes from my courageous friend and fellow brain blogger, Debbie Hampton, who writes over at The Best Brain Possible. In her words her blog provides: information and inspiration for anyone with a brain and desiring to improve it. The Battle in Your Brain When Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, he had to work… Continue Reading
Todays blog post is comes to you from Gregory Ciotti who writes at SparringMind.com where he explores creative work, productivity, habits, and human behaviour. To get his weekly essay on being a little better than you were yesterday, join his free newsletter. And while you’re in sign-up mode and if you want to read MY newsletter, then join… Continue Reading
I confess that I’m struggling with my new meditation practice. I’ve diagnosed myself with a severe case of monkey-mind. Monkey-mind = a buddhist term meaning “unsettled; restless; capricious; whimsical; fanciful; inconstant; confused; indecisive; uncontrollable”. But I’m persisting with my study, and in the blog today I’m sharing with you some research that shows the brain’s… Continue Reading
Meet Dr Matt Grubb. He’s one of my all-time favourite neuroscientists. Matt and I met in Oxford. We did our PhDs in the same lab, went to the same college, played in the same netball team, drank in the same pubs, and even starred in the same Christmas panto … Matt was always going to… Continue Reading
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