Embrace Your Brain

An event? A tipping point? Riots? Peaceful protests? Our minds long to settle on a point of view, but resist. Try practicing wide thinking instead.

Living with this pandemic is straining our brains in two special ways. What are they and how can we lift some of the stress from our tired brains?

Are you or your children having to cope with the demands of learning at home? Here are ways to support yourself or your children and avoid overwhelm.

Practicing may seem like drudgery, but if you do it long enough, it can shift. Once you have a real practice, a very nourishing brain zone kicks in!

Tired of the same nervous chatter in your brain? You know there’s a creative, curious, interesting voice in there somewhere. Here’s how to switch it on!

Ever read something and realize you have no idea what it said? If it’s been happening a lot, it may be connected to the increased stress we’re facing.

Let’s look at how young children prepare for reading. We may revisit those early steps for comfort, as stress chips away at our reading skills.

Have you picked out the right spot?  Are you working at your best time of day?  If you have to share tech tools, do you have a good sign up schedule?

We have looked at magical 4 and get it right 7. Now let’s look at solitary 9, and the almost great thinker 11-12. Each needs its own kind of comforting.

What’s your personal pattern? Do you flare up or stress out a lot these days? Learn what comforts YOU and helps you handle these challenging times best.

Hot soup? Laundry? Discover surprising signs that we’re struggling, and some simple fixes. College students from 19 years ago hold up a mirror for us.

What is the idea of period doubling? What our decision makers weren’t tracking and our scientists have seen all along – and what you can learn to do in this simple podcast!

You’ve washed your hands, kept a social distance, but still you’re anxious. Learn how to call up a powerful mind state that can restore calm and joy.

Does stress ever hijack your great thinking skills?  Your brain may be dropping down into one of two weaker systems.  Learn how you can bounce back.

When things go wrong, how’s your turnaround time? Do you do what you can and then work with the new reality? Or do you get stuck fuming or flaring?

What does it mean to be upbeat?  Are the stresses in your life dragging you down? Let’s explore ways to cultivate more resiliency.

Do your weak styles keep creating obstacles for you? Discover some very small practices that can fix that…As long as you can add a bit of will power!

Combining playful starters, serious workers and intense finishers isn’t easy. Sometimes whole families share one style, but often it gets complicated.

Quick starters, strong endurance folks and great finishers –we’re all different. We may not always get along! But we can learn to enjoy each other.

What’s your specialty –beginnings, middles or ends? On project teams, are you the great starter, the steady worker or the closer who wraps it up?

Working memory doesn’t have to focus on the outside world. It can also go inside to hold the puzzle pieces in your mind, so you can build new ideas!

You built your working memory in several stages, starting from scratch. How well did you do?  Discover what strong and weak ones look like.

One of your brain’s best friends is a memory system that can’t hold much stuff and has no save button. How can such a limited system be so valuable?

If you’re a good systems thinker, you’ve had a strange journey. It went from fun to hard work to ideas galore! So, let’s explore the hard work part, OK?

We know systems thinking is an advanced learning stage. But can it also be a state of mind? If so, maybe we could all learn to use it in our lives.