Occupation: Psychotherapist Birth: November 1, 1957
When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably ….
Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was found to be ….
I think there is probably something evolutionary in that we are drawn to the easiest option. But in our age of convenience, cars, ready meals and off….
Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life..
We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. The….
Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, a….
Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways an….
In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome..
If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections..
I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers..
Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up..
Our brains do not have to be fixed, they can be plastic..
A sense of achievement improves general confidence and self-esteem..
Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions o….
It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the ….
The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract..
People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again..
It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work..
Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge..
Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that ….
If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable..