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Today’s Inspiration ~ Learn from Experience

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“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.”

~ Aldous Huxley

Today’s Positive Thought ~ You Have So Much to Offer

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“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best (St. Jerome).” We’re like the plants in our window, garden, or landscape. We’re either growing or we’re decaying. If we choose to keep growing, we choose to keep learning. We choose to become a better person. We choose to understand how we become a better part of our community. Never stop growing. Never stop learning. Never stop becoming a better person. You have so much to offer our world.

What If . . .

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What if one made a decision to learn something new? You don’t have to wait until New Year’s Day to begin. Why not begin today. Perhaps you want to learn a new language, how to play the guitar, or how to do a podcast. There are an infinite number of things to learn. Our minds want to learn. They want the workout. Imagine two people, each of whom wants to learn to speak enough Spanish to help them communicate when they visit a Spanish speaking country. One person downloads a language learning app and practices every day. The other person does nothing. In one year, they’re both a year older, yet, the former person can now visit a Spanish speaking country and can confidently make his/her way around.

Power Thought ~ Never be Satisfied

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Never be satisfied, keep learning, keep growing. It works in all parts of our lives: relationships, work, health, and our spiritual life. We’re either growing or decaying. It’s an easy choice, keep growing.

😎 Today’s Happy Brain ~ Choose the Right Eating Path for a Healthy Brain

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A Healthy Diet Builds Brainpower

Do your brain a favor and choose foods that are good for your heart and waistline. Being obese in middle age makes you twice as likely to have dementia later on. High cholesterol and high blood pressure raise your chances, too. Try these easy tips:

  • Bake or grill foods instead of frying.
  • Cook with “good” fats like oils from nuts, seeds, and olives instead of cream, butter, and fats from meat.
  • Eat colorful fruits and veggies.
  • Eat fish.

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😎 Today’s Happy Brain ~ It’s a No Brainer

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Meditation is Good for You and Your Brain

There are thousands of years of anecdotal evidence that meditation can help a person psychologically, and perhaps neurologically. The scientific evidence for meditation’s effects on the brain has exploded in the last five or 10 years. Meditation has been linked to increased brain volume in certain areas of the cerebral cortex, along with less volume in the brain’s amygdala, which controls fear and anxiety. It’s also been linked to reduced activity in the brain’s default mode network (DMN), which is active when our minds are wandering about from thought to thought, which are typically negative and distressing. Meditation also seems to lead to changes to the white matter tracks connecting different regions of the brain, and to improved attention and concentration.

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😎 Today’s Happy Brain ~ Let’s Get Moving

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Weave heart-pumping exercise into your daily routine.

“A surprising amount of evidence points to this as the No. 1 thing you can do to improve brain health,” Gordon says. In addition to lowering your risk of hypertension and diabetes, improving mood and sleep, and helping with weight control, aerobic exercise may activate certain beneficial genes in the brain. Benefits accrue no matter what age you start, he says.”

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I’m heading for the gym and the elliptical machine, good for my heart, good for my brain

😎 Today’s Happy Brain ~ Laugh it Up, Often!

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Laughter can trigger the brain’s emotional reward center, delivering a heaping dose of feel-good dopamine and mood-lifting serotonin. It can even increase the release of endorphins, the pain-relieving chemicals our brain releases in response to such things as exercise, food and sex.

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I think I’ll skip watching the thriller tonight and check out the comedy channel.

 

😎 Today’s Happy Brain ~ Don’t Shrink Your Brain’s Frontal Lobes

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Watch What You Drink

You know that too many drinks can affect your judgment, speech, movement, and memory. But did you know alcohol can have long-term effects? Too much drinking over a long period of time can shrink the frontal lobes of your brain. And that damage can last forever, even if you quit drinking. A healthy amount is considered one drink a day for women and two for men.

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😎 Today’s Happy Brain ~ A Happy Brain Keeps Negative Emotions Under Control

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Take Charge of Your Emotions

Take charge of negative emotions (worry, anger, sadness, irritation). Negative emotions impairs and overwhelms your prefrontal cortex, the brain’s CEO or executive function region, so that you can’t “think straight.” Too much negative stress damages the ability to focus and harms health. The great news is that the same things that improve health can improve the mind’s ability to manage negative emotions. Sleep well, exercise, do a mindfulness practice or choose the slow lane from time to time, even for a few minutes.

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