This is part 6 of a series of lessons in brain health from our elders — those folk who lived the longest and healthiest. Click here to download the entire series as a PDF We’re all dealt our unique genetic deck of cards at conception. What matters is how we choose to play our hand.… Continue Reading
This is part 2 of a series of lessons in brain health from our elders — those folk who lived the longest and healthiest. Click here to download the entire series as a PDF My mother often says to me there’s no way she’d want to live to 100. And she may have a point.… Continue Reading
Motherhood changes everything Little did I know before I had my boys how completely and utterly being their mother would change EVERYTHING. Having children threw the pieces of my life up in the air. The pieces settled again, but my body, outlook on life, sense of self and emotions have never been quite the same.… Continue Reading
What does neuroscience have to do with coaching and therapy? Short answer: EVERYTHING! If you’re a coach or therapist, your job is to facilitate change in your client’s thinking (beliefs and attitudes) emotions (more mindfulness and resilience) behaviour (new healthy habits). Coaching builds the mental skills needed to support lasting change. Skills such as: mindfulness… Continue Reading
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 Creative Commons), wades through the hype, hope, brain plasticity facts and neuro-fiction. This is a LONG read, download as a PDF here For years she had… 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
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