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I’d like to offer an alternative premise to this glut of the newest new things in manipulating human behavior: Your “self” needs no help. To improve yourself, be more yourself. BrainStyles offers a breakthrough for interactions based on the speed of access to areas of the brain that determine what you’re best at and offers a simple, practical solution: Timing.
Teaching BrainStyles around the world (in 8 languages) has proven that culture, race, gender, age and education matter not when it comes to brainstyle.
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Am I Losing My Mind?
No matter what your age, consider your brain health. People with healthy brains are able to make decisions more easily, live more fulfilled lives, and may, in some cases, delay the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. So how do you keep your brain healthy?
The same way you keep the rest of your body healthy.
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How to delay the effects of aging on your brain
Richard A. Friedman, professor of clinical psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Times, October 25, 2015
According to professor Friedman, “The very notion of cognitive enhancement is seductive and plausible. After all, the brain is capable of change and learning at all ages. Our brain has remarkable neuroplasticity; that is, it can remodel and change itself in response to various experiences and injuries. So can it be trained to enhance its own cognitive prowess?
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Are you going through a difficult medical situation? I was diagnosed and treated twice for breast cancer. BrainStyles helped me through the entire process. Learn how BrainStyles may also help you through a difficult medical situation like cancer.
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Sometimes talking to a family member or loved one may be challenging. Different communication styles, different ways of solving problems, and different ways of processing information may make it difficult to build a relationship. However, by understanding different brainstyles, we may better understand our loved ones. Our relationships with them will grow closer.
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Michael Jordan once said, “There is no I in team, but there is an I in WIN.” While many assumed this to be a selfish quote, there is another way of looking at it. It brings up the question: if everyone played to his or her strengths, would the team benefit? Jordan’s 6 national championships with the Chicago Bulls say Yes.
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In BrainStyles, there is a unique concept called Time Zero. Simply put, Time Zero is when you confront a new or unfamiliar situation and must use your natural brain hardware to think through an answer and take action, rather than remember what to do. This requires our natural brain processing, or brainstyle. Often this is disconcerting when we expect ourselves to be smart, quick, and know what we’re doing. We give up authenticity in favor of looking good.
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Personal Mastery with BrainStyles
Marlee Alex, an Oregon writer, begins an article entitled “Listening,” by describing how her self-inflicted criticism turned her natural gift into an adolescent curse.
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Use your experiences for the future.
One of the earliest principles to emerge when teaching what was to become The BrainStyles System® was how to “reframe” criticisms by focusing on natural brain-based strengths. This came to mean re-looking at the labels you use to name what you do and who you are with the brainstyles definitions of strengths. Further work led to observations about the source of criticisms, along with the distinction between a brainstyle strength from a non-strength.
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The sport I have attempted to learn over the last decade is golf. I find the sport a very apt metaphor for most of living. In a recent clinic to improve my game, I learned the following things which I believe translate to living and performing in daily life.
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Smiling Does, too :)
According to Professor Amy Cuddy of Harvard, “bodies can change our mind.” In her studies over years, she concluded that “positive body language can significantly improve your thoughts, feelings, attitude, and actions through a number of mechanisms, all of which contribute to a more resilient you.” But wait, there’s more: “positive body language can help you become more optimistic, perseverant, and resilient.”
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“Older people—say in their seventies—walking at a brisk pace …will tend to look younger, healthier and more vigorous than those who are ambling. This impression is borne out by the science. The slowest walkers – particularly men – are almost twice as likely to die in the next few years compared to the fastest.
What’s more, when people slow down their walking pace significantly over a two-year period, their chances of dying in the next few years almost double”.
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What is happiness to you? A hug? A compliment that makes you feel proud? A successful diet? A new outfit? An accomplishment of an item on your To-do list?
In a survey of a group of 18 leading psychological experts who focus on positive emotions and ultimately, happiness, their consensus of definitions might help you focus on how to start leaning into something that is longer lasting, independent of external, temporary events, and comes from within:
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If it seems like friendships formed in adolescence are particularly special, that's because they are.
Childhood, adolescent, and adult friendships all manifest differently in part because the brain works in different ways at those stages of life. During adolescence, there are changes in the way you value, understand, and connect to friends.
As brain imaging shows, when we’re below the age of 9 or 10, the friendships we make are somewhat superficial and don’t involve much of the brain.