Sugar-Sleep-Water (video)

Science Behind OFFICE Body Brain Optimization!

  

WORKING at the COMPUTER or SITTING for LONG?

Keep your body and brain functioning at the highest level.  Troy Busot, explains the science behind sleep, sugar and water in maintaining your creativity and energy.  Speaking to web and social media program designers, graphic designers, and others who tend to sit and labor for extended hours, this talk hits home!  Excellent information!

Rest and Relaxation

R & R is Essential for Creativity

Julie Lusk, writes in her Mind Body Help blog the significance of relaxation, including its connection to creativity. Albert Einstein’s quote, “Play is the best research” states this beautifully. According to Julie, “relaxing muscular tension is important to clearing away the mental ruckus and emotional debris to make room for clear thinking.” Good thought Julie!

Explore Movement through Feldenkrais (video)

Awareness through Movement for

Vitality, Creativity, and Comfort

Are you experiencing tension, anxiety, pain, tiredness, lack of focus, or diminished creativity? Explore your own movements through Feldenkrais, a method that combines anatomy, physiology with physics, mechanics and martial arts to understand and optimize movements for increased vitality and youthfulness.

Watch the video or read Marissa Harshman's article 'Exploring Movement with the Feldenkrais Method'. You will learn how to move more seamlessly and effortlessly. Experience the effect of your body on your brain as movement soothes and refreshes your mindbody.

Richard Goldsand's article makes 'Awareness Though Movement', a key Feldenkrais approach, easy to understand.

4th of July Movement Routine

Feel physical fireworks following the actions

Rather than sitting and listening to the 1812 Overture performed to fireworks, why not create your own sparkle, mimicking my complex movement routine and echoing the lyrics. Dress in red, white and blue to experience total release. Can you do it? Engage your pre-frontal cortex, motor cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum, visual, auditory, vestibular and kinesthetic body brain systems. This is the same body brain network that involves academic performance skills. Ka boom! What a blast!

Creative Breath Taking

Boost mental clarity/creativity with breath taking

Enchanted Mind website suggests several ways to enhance your creativity. As a body brain enthusiast, I was impressed with the article on breath control, explaining how holding the breath, and alternate nostril breathing is effective. How about the deep water method of writing down ideas – hopefully you won’t drown of a writer’s cramp. Jeff

Build Your Brain LINKS!

Build Your Own Brain with 100 Tools, Exercises, and Games


Imagine 100 engaging (fun!) ways to build your body brain! Thank you Kelly for e-mailing me this very impressive collection of activities sponsored by Healthcare Administration Degree, listing mental exercises, physical exercises, Online brain games, senior games, work games and puzzles, riddles, trivia, learning tools, and more creative brain activities… wow! WOW!

Get Serious About Play

Joyful, energizing, creative play boosts physical, mental and social skills

Stuart Brown’s research shared on TED website, speaks convincingly about plays involvement with human development and intelligence. It’s time we get serious about play, regardless of age. Watch this delightful video.