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How to Improve Your Brain Fitness

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What is Brain Fitness?

We often hear the phrase “use it or lose it” in reference to brain fitness. With the growing awareness of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, there is a greater concern for maintaining brain function and avoiding disease.

Brain Fitness is the state of brain health and mental well-being that makes you “fit” for life and work demands. It’s a fundamental measure of the brain’s ability to function efficiently and effectively during work and leisure activities, to be healthy, to resist disease.

Brain fitness can be protected and nurtured by lifestyle, by formal education, by being actively mentally engaged in life, and by targeted practices designed to challenge important mental skills.

Healthy lifestyle habits including mental stimulation, physical exercise, good nutrition, stress management, and sleep can improve brain fitness. On the other hand, chronic stress, anxiety, depression, aging, decreasing estrogen, excess oxytocin, and prolonged cortisol can decrease brain fitness as well as general health.

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Creating a Rapport with the Unconscious Mind: Visualizing and Synesthesia

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Creating a Rapport with the Unconscious Mind

How to Visualize

For many people, being aware of their internal images and voices is a simple matter of fact. For others, this skill is not so readily in their awareness. Being able to create a rapport with the unconscious mind to allow an awareness of inner thoughts is crucial for healing limitations from the past. We have identified several reasons for a person not having conscious access to their internal world:

Hyper-vigilance for safety.
Previous emotional trauma.
Not even knowing to “look for it.”
Habit or other familial patterning.
Not using both hemispheres of the brain in balance.

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Hemispheric Specialization of the Brain

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Hemispheric Specialization of the Brain

When we understand the cognitive functioning of each hemisphere we can be more purposeful about how we process information – when a challenge is more of a right brain issue, or when the left hemisphere’s style of thinking will give the best results.

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Future Pacing and Perceptual Positions

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Future Pacing and Perceptual Positions

Future Pacing

The purpose of future pacing or attaching new learning to events in the future is to give us an opportunity to move forward into new adventures easily and with a deep sense of centeredness. A tangible example would be a dress rehearsal for an event, like a wedding or performance, so that the event will be well-practiced and familiar when it actually occurs. Mental future pacing is done in the imagination with visual imagery predicting success.

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Components of Creating Precise and Purposeful Anchors

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Components of Creating Precise and Purposeful Anchors

Anchors are the triggers or cues that create the meaning and/or response we give to circumstances and events. An anchor can be established in any of the modalities. Our purpose in this course for studying this phenomenon is to:

  • Identify an anchor and the response being elicited by it.
  • Learn how to release the knee-jerk response a limiting or outdated anchor can elicit.
  • Learn how to establish anchors for a proactive and positive response in ourselves and in others.

What are Anchors?

An anchor can elicit either a resourceful response that is appropriate for the situation, or it can elicit an unresourceful response, often out of the person’s awareness or control and at the extreme becomes a phobic reaction.

Anchors are the super glue that stick experiences together – behavioral habits and routines, sleep postures, that special “our song,” smells, even words are just anchors for certain ways of thinking based on our history and experiences.

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Sensory-Based Awareness

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The Benefit of Becoming More Sensory Aware

In calibrating for distinctions we are going to be using our sensory skills to notice the details and information being presented. As we gather this information it is important to pay attention to sensory-based descriptions. This will keep us from “mind-reading” or “hallucinating” or interpreting through emotional responses and assumptions.

Sensory-based information is describing what is actually existing behaviorally and environmentally, rather than the generalities of emotion.

For example: “She must be really mad at me!” would become, “I haven’t received a phone call for three days from her and I wonder what has happened.” Or, “I just know she’s mad at me.” becomes “The look on her face has a furrowed brow, piercing eyes and clenched teeth, and her breathing is shallow and rapid.” And, she could be mad at someone else!

The benefit of becoming more and more sensory aware is that we notice finer distinctions of information and we let go of assumptions and mind-reading that could lead us to delete, distort or generalize important information.

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Communication Strategies: Eye-Accessing Cues

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Eye-Accessing Cues

One of the key ways to understand the sequence of how someone is thinking is by watching where a person glances when they are thinking or responding.

As you will see by the following chart: when we think in pictures our eyes will be above the eye line or straight ahead and defocused; the eyes will be moving side to side and ear level for processing in words and sounds; and when our eyes are looking down we are processing in our emotions and feelings.

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The Relationship Between Sleep and Stress Hormones

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Relationship Between Sleep and Stress Hormones

Sleep is natural, easily reversible periodic state of mind of an individual that is marked by the absence of wakefulness and by the loss of consciousness of one’s surroundings, is accompanied by a typical body posture, the occurrence of dreaming, and changes in brain activity is called as sleep.

Why is Sleep Important For Us?

Sleep keeps us healthy and functioning better. It lets our repair, restore and reenergizes body and brain. If you do not get enough sleep of almost 8 hours you may find side effects like poor memory and loss of focus, weakened immunity, and instant mood changes. [Read more…]

How to Listen to Your Brain and Give It What It Needs

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Written by Mark Teahan Director of Education Programs

Giving Your Brain What It Needs

It has been said that real change has to connect with the heart for it to occur or endure. That sounds really nice, but it’s not the whole picture. The truth is, change starts just as much in the brain than anywhere else in the body. Referencing the heart addresses our need for a warm feel-good requirement in our coaching sessions but the truth is, there is a lot of science behind the change. And it mostly comes from the brain. [Read more…]

Proven Strategies to Enhance Your Knowledge, Communication and Information Retention

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Proven Strategies to Enhance Your Knowledge, Communication, and Information Retention

Since you are going to be spending your valuable time with this learning material, we are going to begin with the Elements of Effective Learning Strategies as our first awareness and tool. Once a goal is established, it is important to know how to move along the pathway to success. Learning how to learn will give you an overview of how to best assimilate this information and incorporate it into your life skills. It will also give you a template to understand where your clients, employees, customers, colleagues, and others might be blocking themselves from moving forward. [Read more…]

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