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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. ...