Archive for the ‘Mind’ Category
Slow solutions for beating stress
The best long-term health and wellbeing strategies are powered by the force of habit, so integrating helpful practices into our lifestyle is one of the keys to healthy aging. Some common examples include exercise, taking quality time out and employing mind-body techniques. When used routinely, each can serve to build our resilience to stress. Some
Stress resilience & aging
I spend much of my time trying to keep off the rat-wheel of life and find that I have to keep re-evaluating my life as I age in order to keep it relatively simple. Our lives are so busy and we are at the beck and call of employers, children, partners and our social and
COGMED working memory training
I recently had the good fortune to be briefed on COGMED by Nerida Saunders at Solstice – Mind Matters. COGMED has made a breakthrough discovery that individuals can train and improve their working memory, a key function of the brain that allows individuals to store and manipulate information for brief periods of time. COGMED state
Can’t find my keys! Memory and the aging brain
We’ll all experience some decline in our in our cognitive skill as we age, but the key thing that is really causing me concern is my increasing loss of memory. I can’t remember the little things such as if I’ve turned on the alarm when I’ve left the house. Also when I’m tired, what used to
Building stress resilience as you age
In our book, Fast Living Slow Ageing, we look at the various options we have in building stress resilience as we age: Pay attention to your stress and its sources Write a journal and jot down what stresses you and what makes you feel good over a week or month. Take note and make changes
Brain training for healthy aging
Working memory a key marker of a healthy brain There is much we can do to enhance our brain’s function. One of the most important parts that can be built up is working memory – the part of our brain used for temporarily storing and manipulating information, such as mental arithmetic, attention span, remembering instructions
The art of mindfulness
When we first see or hear something, there is a fleeting instant of pure awareness just before we conceptualize or ‘think’ about the thing – before we identify it. That moment is known as ‘mindfulness’. It is the mental equivalent of what we see with our peripheral vision, as opposed to the hard focus of