We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains.
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 … - Philippa Perry
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 …
- Philippa Perry
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. - Philippa Perry
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.
If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a… - Philippa Perry
If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a…
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… - Philippa Perry
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… - Philippa Perry
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…
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… - Philippa Perry
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. - Philippa Perry
Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.
Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions o… - Philippa Perry
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 … - Philippa Perry
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 …
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