Mental Faculties Teaching Program By: Lesley Yazzle | - Curious about mental faculties coaching products? Is there anything to them moreover smoke and mirrors? I have been making use of 4 of them, And that I like them, but right here is facts from two University of Michigan researchers who supply an e-book which draws on their skilled expertise to describe within a humorous way that brain fitness is absolutely something we will cultivate. Everything starts off from the mental.
Human Brain Education System By: Armida Baldomero | - Curious about mind education software programs? Is there nearly anything to them in addition to smoke and mirrors? I have been making use of 4 of them, And that I like them, but here is info from two College of Michigan researchers who supply an e-book which draws on their professional expertise to explain in the humorous way that mental faculties physical fitness is certainly one thing we can cultivate. Every thing starts in the mental.
What Is Your Favorite Positive Feeling? By: Michael Logan | - What is your favorite positive feeling? These days, I think I will take contentment, and a sense of quiet pride.
And that feeling comes from looking back over the last 30 years at the effective choices of my life, choices that did entail hard work, but paid off.
I did not always take the easier, softer way, sometimes I took the road less traveled, and made it through.
Learned Optimism By: Michael Logan | - Learned optimism learned fast. I believe very much in the concept of learned optimism.
I got a chance to start over about 30 years ago, and am still muddling along, albeit with more health and contentment and wealth than I had then. (Cross your fingers on that last one, given our current economic woes).
I have tried out a whole bunch of tools that I thought might enhance the process, and some of them do.
If I have learned one thing, it is that I must repeat ... Tags:learned optimism
Exercise Over 50 For Your Brain By: Michael Logan | - Exercise over 50 is mandatory. That is if you want the best possible brain.
Of course, you are exercising for buns of steel, but there are some unexpected side effects, because exercise makes for steel axons and dendrites that snap shut like traps.
Maybe you have been reading about the emerging field of brain fitness, and are curious, because you have had a moment or two where you were talking and couldn't recall the subtly nuanced word you needed, and you thought, "Dam ... Tags:exercise over 50, exercise over 60, brain nutrition, brain neuroplasticity
Emotional Intelligence Skills Happen Inside Your Brain First By: Michael Logan | - Emotional Intelligence Skills involve brain fitness? According to Simon Evans, Ph.D. and Paul Burghardt, Ph.D., the answer is yes, and here is what they say.
But the search term anxiety relaxation probably refers to how to relax from anxiety, and I can offer some experience there, having dealt with (and I am still dealing with) a heightened startle response and hypervigilence since I was six years old.
So perhaps you are wondering what cognitive reserve is before you order some for yourself?
"In 1988 a study published in Annals of Neurology reporting findings from post-mortem examinations on 137 elderly persons unexpectedly revealed that there was a discrepancy between the degree of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology and the clinical manifestations of the disease. This is to say ... Tags:cognitive reserve, neuroplasticity exercise, neuro plasticity, neurogenesis
Positive Cognitive Aging By: Michael Logan | - Cognitive aging at the age of 62 can result in some scary feelings, a little worry, a little fear, because these days my vision or my memory is not quite what it was, and so on.
If you are my age, 62, then I am sure you and Bill Clinton feel my pain.
I grew up with the neuroscientific model that we had all the neurons we were going to have and all the brain circuitry that we were going to have by the time we were five years old or so, and that we would slowly lose those ... Tags:cognitive aging, exercise aging
Anxiety Depression Syndrome By: Michael Logan | - Anxiety depression syndrome won't discriminate according to sex, age, race or religion. Anyone can get it but not everyone takes the all too important steps to get treatment for the condition. While women are more likely to struggle with the condition, men can too, but women usually recognize that something is wrong enough that they need help. Many men try to work through it on their own and are slower to seek assistance.
Your Own Personal Stress Management Technique By: Michael Logan | - My personal stress management technique has got to be very powerful, whatever it is. Doesn't seem that there is any let up in stress these days, does there?
However, once I give some thought to where stress exists, or is experienced, and the sequence of events leading to the physiology of stress, a body full of hormones and neurotransmitters more appropriate to combating an attack than the board room or the living room, I can recognize that there are some interventions I can work on ... Tags:stress management technique, stress management program, workplace stress management
Finding Your Anxiety Cures By: Michael Logan | - Why would you want to find anxiety cures? Because they are good for your neurogenesis. Not sure what that is? Please read on.
You don't have to suffer from anxiety - cures are easier and faster than you might think. There are at several ways that anxiety can be successfully cured. One type of treatment will work for one person while a different kind will work for the next person.
Stress Management Program And Brain Fitness? By: Michael Logan | - Your stress management program is an inside job. In other words, stress is a physiology that exists inside my body. Most of us have learned to link the external world to our physiology, by blaming the outside for the inside.
(For example, I will not have stress when I earn more money. That is not necessarily true).
Brain Training Exercises By: Michael Logan | - Bet you thought brain training exercises meant something like memorizing the NYC phone directory?
Well, there are memorization tools available that could be part of your brain training exercises, but these days brain training has much more to do with neurogenesis and neuroplasticity, two recently discovered capacities of the human brain.
Until about 12-15 years ago, no one knew that we humans grow new brain cells which is the process described by the term neurogenesis.< ... Tags:brain traing exercises, brain train exercise
Memory Improvement Techniques By: Michael Logan | - The first memory improvement techniques to examine is brain fitness.
Doesn't it make sense that memory improvement techniques would work best in a brain that is fit?
Perhaps you did not know that there were some things you could do to make more neurons (neurogenesis) and increase the connectivity of neurons, which the scientists call neuroplasticity.
Brain Games For Adults By: Michael Logan | - Brain games for adults is a bit of misnomer, if by games you mean something to pass the time, because we adults can do much more with brain games these days than pass the time.
Ever heard of neurogenesis? Neurogenesis is a term used to describe the daily growth of new neurons, which is a capacity of the human brain that no one new about until about 10-15 years ago.
Concentration Exercises By: Michael Logan | - One of the best concentration exercises I have discovered for a lecture or conversation is to simply repeat the words of the person speaking to me inside my head.
That simple concentration exercise keeps me from preparing my retort, and it also teaches me to listen for the speakers gifts. Taking a moment to repeat their words to myself allows me to see their strengths, and I get lots of good ideas that way.
A Model For Therapeutic Counseling By: Michael Logan | - When I think of how I want clients to leave their first therapeutic counseling session with me, I want them to feel more hopeful and a bit of excitement.
I almost always start a therapeutic counseling session with a question like this one, "What has changed since your call to schedule?" because change actually begins before that, when the contemplation begins.
What Are Brain Gym Exercises? By: Michael Logan | - Does brain gym exercises bring a funny picture to mind, your brain at the gym doing some curls, sit-ups, perhaps jogging, or perhaps your brain has taken itself to the library to read some interesting material on...brains, or maybe your brain is saying that it needs to exercise some sleep?
Well, actually all of those activities and more are required in your brain gym to effectively exercise your brain.
Improve My Memory? Is It Easy? By: Michael Logan | - Lots of people for lots of years have been telling me to improve my memory. I told them I would and then went blithely on my forgetful way.
Little did they know that strategic forgetting can be an excellent labor saving device.
Two things have changed my thinking on improving my memory. The first is that I actually began to forget words, struggling with word recall, which is a signal that my brain is reaching the status of Senior Brain, and the second was that my 11 yea ... Tags:improve my memory, improve memory power, memory skills
If no one hears your message, has communication occurred?
Actually, if no one listens to your message, no communication has happened.
I teach my clients over and over again in my domestic violence education program that listening is a skill with discreet steps that can be learned and if you learn those steps, you will reap huge benefits in your personal ... Tags:listening communication, listening skills, barriers to effective communication
Improving Concentration By: Michael Logan | - So you want to learn about improving concentration? If you are like me, until I did a bit of research, you thought that the key to improved concentration was gritting your teeth and squinting your eyes at the topic you want to concentrate on.
The key to improving concentration is actually relaxation, which opens the higher perceptual centers of the brain.
Online Brain Training By: Michael Logan | - So you have been reading about online brain training, and you are ready to go, you plugged those words into your search engine browser, and got taken to a site that says "buy our stuff", in so many words, and based on your life experience, you hesitate before pulling out your credit card, and you decide to read a bit, research a bit, before buying.
That is a good decision, because as always, the devil is in the details.
Memory Exercise By: Michael Logan | - I can remember memory exercises and assignments all the way back to second grade, and they always involved drudgery and tedium, like memorizing and reciting the Gettysburg address, and making faces at the kid reciting to try and make them lose their place.
I actually did that and feel some embarrassment at this moment as I remember that.
And now I am noticing that I am having issues with word recall, which tells me that my brain is now 62 years old, and my brain is earn ... Tags:memory exercise, memory exercises
Cognitive Exercises Need To Be Quick By: Michael Logan | - Most counseling experiences are going to touch on cognitive exercises in some way, shape, or form.
In Alcoholics Anonymous, for example, there are a number of catchy little phrases like "The Attitude is Gratitude" which serve to change the chemistry in my brain and body very rapidly.
In fact, Mihalyi Cszikszentmihalyi,Ph.D., the author of the book FLOW says that we respond to changes in facial expression and tone of voice in 1/18th second, which is about twice as fast a ... Tags:cognitive exercise, cognitive exercises, improve brain function
Memory Enhancement By: Michael Logan | - When I first think of memory enhancement, I am thinking of recalling facts as needed, getting prepared for an exam, for example.
But these days my 62 year old brain is occasionally not pulling up the perfect word for the situation it is in, perhaps a counseling situation, or a teaching situation, which is worrisome, because counseling can be very much about subtle shadings of concepts and experiences.
Brain Improvement By: Michael Logan | - If only there were a way to do brain improvement. That would be the ticket to fame and fortune, right?
If you are like me, at 62 years young, with small children scampering about the family room, well, one is 11, eats like a horse, and cannot wait for the day when he can fling his father around as I have done him, you have some concerns about the changes that you find your brain undergoing, and if you are struggling to find just the right word at just the right time, there is hope f ... Tags:brain improvement, increase brain power
Improve Intelligence By: Michael Logan | - Every parent, every boss, every teacher, possibly everyone wants to improve intelligence, because we operate from this paradigm that improved intelligence somehow makes us quicker, faster, richer, smarter, you fill in the blank.... If I somehow have more of 'it', then I will achieve more and achieve 'it' more easily.
Upgrade Your Brain? By: Michael Logan | - Good news for those of us who want a brain improvement. There are upgrades created in the form of new neurons everyday, if you take care of the pillars of brain fitness. That newly discovered capacity of the human brain is called neurogenesis.
No one new that we had this capacity to grow new neurons until perhaps a decade ago, so it is very new information, and I for one, since I have a 62 year old brain, am delighted to know about it.
I remember reading Harry Lorayne memory books as a kid to make studying easier and faster, and the memory strategy, I am sure, was to learn how to be an expert, like my professors were.
Surely, they were able to memorize text books at a single glance.
Increase Intelligence By: Michael Logan | - Increase intelligence used to mean pour words, knowledge, books, research, and more words into your head, until reaching a tipping point where you leaped a level in terms of insight, inspiration, or creativity.
That spark might come in a dream, or a reverie, as it did for Thomas Edison, who used to court the alpha-theta dreamy state for ideas.
Now though, increasing intelligence means something a little different.
Brain Training Software By: Michael Logan | - For my Senior Citizen counseling clients, brain training software is of interest. Most of us Boomers and Seniors have noticed the changes that come to our memory with our age, and are definitely interested in managing that change, so that it does not become any worse.
Some of my younger clients are curious about how brain training software might make them more effective in the job market, or at school.
Exercise The Brain By: Michael Logan | - Exercise the brain can mean many things. One thing for sure, it is an accepted fact that two new discoveries about the brain are true.
The first is that we grow new brain cells every day, which is called neurogenesis.
The second is that the brain is incredibly plastic, and changes when we learn something new, which is a capacity called neuroplasticity, and means that neurons form new connections.
Stress Management Exercises By: Michael Logan | - One on my favorite stress management exercises is to ask my counseling and anger management clients to imagine themselves getting up from a really good nights sleep, and to note how refreshed they feel as they pull the covers off, and move their body toward the next right thing to do.
Phone Counselor By: Michael Logan | - It appears that the key word term "phone counseling" can apply to a number of different situations, one like that described in the job application below. By the way, that job has been filled.
Seattle Education jobs
Phone Counseling position -Company: AppleOneLocation: SeattlePosted on: August 19, 2008
Job Description:
Phone based counselor position for a rapidly growing company Downtown Seattle. This position will be assisting people on the pho ... Tags:phone counselor, phone counseling
Counseling Students By: Michael Logan | - So you want to be a counseling student, or perhaps you are a counseling student, looking for some funny stories, or you want to counsel students.
Have you heard of the Mind Sparke Brain Fitness Pro? It is a computerized brain fitness program that takes about 1/2 hour per day for 19 days and it increases IQ. Yes, there is research and you measure using a real IQ test if you want to.
Weight Training Over 50 By: Michael Logan | - I like weight training over 50. I like weight training over 60, and the guys at my YMCA who are in their 80's call me "young blood".
I would have thought that by the time I was 61, I would be past the time I would be teased about my relative youth.
Lifting is a wonderful tonic for the confidence, and the addition of women to the weight room is a boon to the weary eyes in my head.
Weight lifting has some real benefits to our physical and mental health, inclu ... Tags:weight training over 50
Diet Counseling By: Michael Logan | - When I began researching diet counseling, I discovered the usual kinds of research, which evaluated the benefit of face to face educational interventions for reducing heart disease and/or stroke for example.
The interventions were typically done with folks who already had a chronic health issue, and I don't think that kind of diet counseling provided any information that would inspire the searchers who find me to make a change, and then I stumbled across the concept of a polymeal wh ... Tags:diet counseling, diet counselor
So you are my age, 61, and worried about memory aging? But you are a Boomer and we have grown up with a "can do", "we can change it" kind of mindset, and over the course of your life, you have watched your world change because of choices you and others have made individually or in concert.
You were in college when the moon landings occurred and you have learned how to use computers and technology, and you have watched the flow of information explode, and yo ... Tags:memory aging
Nutrition In The Elderly By: Michael Logan | - Nutrition in the elderly is something I am growing to be concerned with as I get older, especially as it relates to brain fitness.
Never heard of neurogenesis or neuroplasticity? You want to take care of your brain. I counsel folks about the impact of poor nutritional habits on their behavior.
Elderly Counseling By: Michael Logan | - As I get closer to the designation of elderly, or as my 10 year old son says, "the ooooooollllllldddddd man", I am curious about what the counseling field has to say about working with Boomers and elderly counseling.
All the folks I hang around with are very vital and engaged in life, and I am 61. Many of us have been hit hard by the current recession, and some are worried about finances, but I am not seeing anyone give up.
Aging Wellness By: Michael Logan | - Did you know you grow new brain cells every day? More on that further down. Did you know that you could enhance your brain's capacity to grow those new neurons?
Nobody told me aging wellness was going to be a risky business. One of the risky parts of aging looks to be the horde of well meaning professional types gathering on the horizon and preparing to descend on us Boomers to protect us from....getting older.
What Happens In Brain Training Programs Anyway? By: Michael Logan | - According to Evans and Burghardt, our brains are constantly engaging in an internal recalibration. Our brains use about 20% of our bodies daily fuel requirement, and in an attempt to use it wisely, our brains are constantly building and dismantling circuits inside our heads, the circuits being neurons that fire together when a certain task is undertaken.
Is The Brain Fitness Program Dull? By: Michael Logan | - What do the words "brain fitness program" bring to mind? I know when I think of fitness programs, I think of the aerobics classes I see at my YMCA, which looks like a fun dancing type of movement, led by an instructor with a microphone, and disco or dance music playing.
But brain fitness brings to mind term papers and reports and drudgery.
Interesting association of brain fitness with drudgery.
Ready, Set, Think By: Simon Evans | - Studies are piling up showing how exercising your body boosts the fitness of you brain as well. Exercise has documented benefits for learning and memory, executive decision making function, mood regulation, and even protection against brain injury from an accident.
Fishing For Neuroticism By: Simon Evans | - It seems like every time I turn around there's another cool study on omega-3s, this time linking neurotic behavior to low levels of omega-3s in the blood. Researchers looked at measures of anxiety, angry hostility, depression, self-consciousness, impulsivity and vulnerability.
Eat Your Peas And Carrots, Or At Least Your Carrots By: Simon Evans | - A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine links intake of beta-carotene (a pre-form of vitamin A found in carrots) to improved cognitive performance in later life. We have appreciated the benefits of vitamin A in brain development for a long time. But until now, the beneficial role in the adult brain has been less obvious.
Nap Today, Perform Better Tomorrow. By: Simon Evans | - A couple of new reports came out this week addressing sleep in our culture. Everyone knows that they feel a little cranky when they don’t get enough sleep. It’s therefore no surprise that sleep affects your mood. What may be surprising, though, is that scientists know very little about why that’s true.
The Mentality Of Physical Activity By: Simon Evans | - An exciting new study came out this week that is sure to add fuel to the debate about cutting physical education from schools. Study after study shows the cognitive benefits of physical activity in school age kids. The new research adds to previous findings in a well-controlled experimental design.
Are You Changing Your Genes? By: Simon Evans | - Living healthy not only affects you, it affects your potential offspring…and yes, fellas, this applies to us too. But isn’t this something we already knew? It is true that we inherit our genes from our ancestors (parents, grandparents, and so on) and our genes impact how you develop and influence your vulnerability to disease….but there is more to the story.
