Pursuing Growth: Project 2 : Chocolate Factory Week 1 Smile facts: One smile creates the same amount of brain stimulation as 2000 bars of chocolate. Smiling changes our hormone composition from hormones associated with unpleasant stress to hormones associated with confident happiness. Two muscle groups are used to smile. The mouth smile uses the Zygomatic…
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Back to the Future: Pursuing Growth Project 1
Pursuing Growth (PG) Sculpting Project 1: Back to the Future I tend to be a workaholic. I love accomplishment. Every day I have more things I really want to do than can be done in a day. These tendencies have real benefit and real detriment in my life. I am well aware of the benefits,…
Sculpting Project 24: 7 Essential Brain Nutrients: Week 2
Sculpting Project 24: 7 Essential Brain Nutrients: Week 2 This week I established that I am a one nutrient woman. My brain gets a full serving of Focus time as often as I can manage. I do get a fair amount of Physical time but only because much of my focused time is physical. I…
Sculpting Project 24: 7 Essential Brain Nutrients: Week 1
Sculpting Project 24: 7 Essential Brain Nutrients Week 1 I spend a good part of my day in a focused attention finishing a writing project. I am in ‘flow’, lost in time. It is largely satisfying, but I emerge in a fog. What does mind need to do to reach equilibrium? This focused time is…
Sculpting Project 17: Built to Play: Week 1
Sculpting Project 17: Built to Play: Week 1 In the animal kingdom the more complex the brain the more a creature plays. We have the most complex brains of all. We are built to play. And it is not just children who have been built for play. Humans continue to play into adulthood more than…
Sculpting Project 15: Centering Moments: Week 2
Sculpting Project 15: Centering Moments: Week 2 Why do Centering Prayer? 1. To pursue a deeper relationship with God. Beyond words. 2. To receive the enormous variety of benefits that accompany a meditation practice. It appears to me that we were built to meditate. I get this idea when I read the results of the…
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