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  How musical instruments can improve your sporting achievements We all have our own types of music we enjoy. Music evokes all manner of emotions so much so that a whole field of science called Neuromusicology has been founded and built to study the effects of music on our nervous system. Countless studies have shown that listening to and even more so playing an instrument has striking effects activating every known part of the brain. Listening to and playing music can make you smarter, happier, healthier and more productive. Brain scans show musicians have bigger, better connected, more symmetrical, more sensitive brains with superior working memory, auditory skills, and cognitive flexibility than non- musicians.   Areas of the brain responsible for motor control, auditory processing, and spatial coordination are larger too as is the corpus callosum which are the nerves responsible for transferring information between the brains’ two hemispheres. How does this affect ...

  The Socratic Method What is it? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who lived 400 – 399 BC. Known as the ‘Father of Western Philosophy’. He developed a method of questioning designed to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions of the individual. It is useful in teaching, therapy and as your own individual growth and self- awareness. In practice it looks like asking some very basic inquisitive questions that can further clarify assumptions, perspectives, evidence and consequences. Such as; ‘Why do you say/ think that’ ‘What do you mean when you say..’ ‘Are you saying..’ ‘Can we provide an example that supports this view’ ‘What are the long- term effects of this viewpoint’ ‘Do we have all the information’ ‘What would someone else think, why’ These questions allow us to form critical thinking. In teaching this allows students to probe and develop problem solving skills. In therapy this helps define problems, identify tho...

  Deep Health- What is it? Deep Health is where you thrive in all aspects of life. Your physical health - how your body is feeling, performing and functioning. Your mental and cognitive health - how well you can think, learn and remember things. Your outlook and perspective on life. Your insight and conscious awareness and creativity and flexibility in your problem solving. Your emotional health - your general mood, ability to recognize, express, respond well balanced with resilience. Your existential/ purposeful health - Having a 'why' you do the things you do, a strong self- worthiness view and feeling that you're part of a 'bigger picture'. Your relational and social health - connecting, developing authentic relationships, feeling respected and heard and feeling as if you 'belong'. Your environmental health - being and feeling safe and secure, supported, have access to resources such as good food and health care. Deep health allows you to grow and excel. ...

                    What diet is best for you? Judging the large range of dietary options available with conflicting philosophies to boot makes deciphering what seems right a difficult task. The key is in that exact above sentence. The reason we have so many options is quite simply for the fact that no one diet is right for everyone and the key is finding what’s right for you. We all juggle with different lifestyle factors;                        Body type: you may be tall and thin, another is short and stocky. Dietary preferences & exclusions:   you may enjoy eating lots of meat every day. Others may eat no meat at all. Budget: Some may have low budget and another has an unlimited budget. Organic / conventional: Some eat only boxed and packaged foods, while some eat only natural, organic, whole foods. Nutriti...

The Subtle difference between 'Find' and 'Earn'  When we want to 'find' our ________ (motivation, respect, money- you fill in the blank). We may be indicating that we have no idea where it is, it's lost, maybe it doesn't even exist! It tags desperation, depression, helplessness.😒 When we want to 'earn' our ________ ( fill in the blank with all the goodies 😇).  We're suggesting solutions and possibilities, that it does exist, we can get to it and it is ours. Try tweaking your words. Instead of saying, "I just need to find the  _______". Say, "And now I will earn my ________". See what difference that small self- talk does for you. Let me know the results. Go to my website for Personal Training, Nutritional and Hypnotherapy Coaching

Remember that game where you put a card with one word on your forehead and you had to guess what it said? You got all kinds of pretty random results. Labeling yourself as just one word is like that too. Saying you're Loyal as a blanket across all areas of life can be a double- edged sword. We love loyalty, but just deciding you're a loyal person without deciding what you're Loyal to , is like having a forehead card that says, 'I'm going to run a marathon'. What marathon, where and when is it? You have to define it better or you're just going out for a run not knowing where it'll end up but hopefully somewhere good. When you blanket loyalty, you're loyal to your God, family, health, work, hobbies, all the good stuff but you're also loyal to mistakes. Is it okay to live under the umbrella of your mistakes for 20, 40, 70 years of your life because you're Loyal? What if you looked at your loyalty differently? What if you wore a card that said, ...