If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again. - Philippa Perry
People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.
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