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This Is A Newsletter About Encouragement, Growth, and WonderI Know People Can Change, And I Know Counseling Can Help!Counseling Tools, Techniques, Recommendations, and DiscoveriesYou Should Sign Up!Here is your chance to read all about it, it being counseling tools, techniques, recommendations, and discoveries, straight from the head of the late life Daddy and husband and Boomer, who is once again changing careers. Want to build a website to enhance your retirement income? Click the link right below for a free webinar.Sign up for the Ask Mike the Counselor Newsletter for my weird and usually mischievious take on life. So you think counseling is just that basic talk, talk, talk to your counselor stuff? Not true anymore, because counseling in now exploring your brain on a daily basis with tools like fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and SPECT scans, and counseling is being informed (at a minimum) by those discoveries every day. Helen Fisher,Ph.D. is studying the human brain when it is in love and demystifying that most inspiring of human experiences. Is that going to take the poetry out of love? Is Alzheimers Disease preventable? Got Mild Cognitive Impairment? Occasional loss of words or glasses? Can that be changed? Ever heard of neurogenesis? Ever heard of neuroplasticity? You can grow new brain cells every day (neurogenesis), and enhance your brains capacity to form new connections (neuroplasticity) by working out your brain like you work out your bicep. Want to try out a tool that could make Helen Fisher weep?
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Did You See That Recent Reference to the Self-Healing Brain?
Brain Fitness and Neuroplasticity Exercises
Stretch Your Axons and Flex Your Dendrites?
There are something like 450 different models of counseling and/or psychotherapy. Of that number, perhaps 10-15 models enjoy any professional support or research credibility.
However, every one of those models involves your brain.
Want to make your brain more effective?
Brainfit for Life, by Simon Evans, Ph.D. and Paul Burghardt, Ph.D.
Mind Sparke Brain Fitness Pro Impulse Control
For your New Years Day Resolutions! Warning-has a side effect of increased IQ.
How is Your Attention? Try Your Hand at the Stroop Test.
To test your attention using the stroop test, read the color the word is printed in rather than the text of the word. So the text could be the word red, but if the word red is printed in blue, then the correct response if blue.
Ultimate Brain Fitness Program
Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity
Replacement Parts for Your Brain?
Neurogenesis is the term used to describe the recently discovered capacity of the human brain to grow new neurons.
That is right, our brain is not physically fixed, it is constantly changing, losing some neurons, growing some neurons, making or deleting connections, and we can encourage that growth by attending to the Pillars Of Brain Fitness.
Those pillars are;
Physical Exercise
Nutrition
Sleep
Stress Management
Novel Learning Experience
Ultimate Brain Fitness Program
Want the Book On Brainfitness?
Chocolate is a Wonderful Counseling Tool, Don't You Think?
Looking for Information On the Grieving Process?
Many of the visitors to this site are looking for information about grief and grieving, and many have utilized the information found in
Back to Life! A Personal Grief Guidebook to plot their progress through the grieving process. Jennie's work has been a gift to many.
Thankyou for coming to visit me, please leave me a note about topics you might like me to cover.
Mike