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Exercise Your Brain for Stronger Concentration

The TV game show "Concentration" ran almost without interruption from 1958 to 1991, until at last its fans became permanently distracted. Not a bad run, but you don't want your powers of concentration ever to get canceled!

Unfortunately, maintaining concentration while dealing with work, kids, family, and who knows what else can make it difficult to remember what you wanted to focus on.

Brain Doctor: Simple Way to Stay Mentally Sharp

But research shows that the brain responds to cognitive strength training — which can bolster concentration.

A group of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, came up with what we like to call "resistance training for the brain." On older folks (and lab rats too), they tested their technique, which teaches how to selectively suppress sensory responses to distractions.

And if lab rats can do it, you don't have any excuses!

To apply it to your life, we suggest this cool brain-training game:

Intentionally read a book in the same room where the TV is on. Focus on the TV sound for a few seconds — don't look at your book; then turn your gaze to your book and read one sentence slowly thinking ONLY about each word.

Repeat the two steps a few times.

Next, tell yourself you're aware of the TV noise and are going to stop reacting to it.

Now try reading several paragraphs. Feel focused?

Try further challenging your concentration at various TV volumes. Learning to deal with and shut out distractions can help you train your brain and strengthen your powers of concentration.
 
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Three Podcasts to Help You Navigate Our Current Situation

The age of COVID-19 has most of us staying safe at home, navigating a new normal.

That might mean trying to harness our brainpower to work remotely in a capacity that is completely new to us, addressing new relationship challenges that come with 24/7 time with our partner, or learning how to deal with the stress of uncertainty and protect our health at a crucial time.

To help you through these unusual circumstances, we’ve put together a series of three new episodes of The Broken Brain Podcast to cover all these bases:


Episode 102: How to Break Free From the Boxes You’ve Put Yourself In with Jim Kwik



What would your life look like if you could unlock the full potential of your brain? People tend to put themselves into boxes and create rules and limits that can cut into our true potential. Dhru and Jim cover exactly how to break free from these arbitrary rules and truly become limitless.


Bonus Episode - COVID-19: Relationship Do's and Don'ts During Quarantine with Marriage and Family Therapist Michael Latimer



Dhru and Michael discuss building relationships and using this time of social isolation to strengthen bonds and make repairs. It's possible to both meet your partner’s needs and meet your own—Michael explains how. Even in a time of global crisis, we can all work on supporting our loved ones, improving communication, and building connection.


Episode 103: Wired, Tired, and Stressed? How Understanding Your HPA Axis Could be the Key to Achieving Optimal Health with Dr. Zandra Palma



Stress wreaks havoc on our health in so many ways. Dhru and Dr. Palma talk all about the importance of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. If these systems experience dysfunction, it can affect every aspect of your health. More importantly, Dr. Palma discusses how to support your HPA axis, reduce stress, sleep better, and feel great. The first steps to recover and begin healing can benefit everyone.

With so many things feeling out of our control these days, it’s important to focus on the things we can change—and why not improve our wellbeing at the same time? I hope you’ll tune in to these episodes to get the most out of your time at home.

Wishing you health and happiness,
 
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Dear Jimi,

As promised, I have been working on a campaign over the past month with the non-profit, 501c4 organization Stand for Health Freedom I co-founded, to help empower citizens with a voice and bring rationality back into the present nationwide COVID-19 lockdown situation that is now live here and ready for you to use!

We surveyed you, and received hundreds of responses. In summary, our collective following is strongly in favor of sending the message to elected officials and key decision-makers that government orders restricting healthy citizens and keeping nonessential businesses closed are causing widespread emotional, physical and financial devastation -- far more harmful than the risk of COVID-19 itself. And that outcomes will continue to worsen, unless we use reopen our communities, letting lawful, healthy citizens go back to work, school, church, and social gatherings.

If this indeed resonates with you, we've created a powerful campaign and action for you that you can engage in only a few clicks here NOW, enabling you to email your major and governor your concerns!




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OUR STAND
  • Governors and mayors across the country have taken unprecedented action by restricting the movement of healthy individuals, closing places of worship and public spaces, and interfering with business by ordering them to close their doors.
  • There is a growing realization that government-imposed orders intended to contain the spread of the coronavirus are creating widespread devastation.
  • One in four Americans has lost either part or all of their income since the end of March, and the GDP has fallen by 24 percent.
  • US data shows that the case fatality rate might be as low as 0.1% — in other words, akin to the mortality rate of a severe seasonal flu. Ninety percent of those who are severely affected have an underlying health condition.
  • Cases in which COVID-19 are merely suspected to be a cause of death are being recorded as official COVID-19 deaths.
  • Americans are wondering how long they will be required to comply with orders that force healthy individuals to indefinitely stay at home and businesses deemed as “non-essential” to stay closed.
  • Individuals are capable of taking precautions to avoid COVID-19. Those who are vulnerable or who have COVID-19 should stay home, but healthy individuals need to return to work so that our jobs, our economy and our well-being are not destroyed.
  • It’s time to stand and request commonsense policies that protect the vulnerable while restoring individuals’ livelihoods and mitigating the repercussions of an indefinite shutdown. Email your governor and mayor NOW to urge them to lift the stay-at-home orders for healthy individuals.
Please send YOUR letter to your governor and mayor here today and take a stand with us!

Sayer Ji,
 
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Jimi said:
They never tell us the whole truth:gaah:
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Jimi, on YT there’s a few good news channels. NTD - China In Focus. Crossroads with Joshua Phillip (he’s with Epoch Times.)
And WION.

They focus on the CCP virus and what’s going on with it. Straight up news with no MSM nonsense or politics.
 
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Rhianne said:
Jimi, on YT there’s a few good news channels. NTD - China In Focus. Crossroads with Joshua Phillip (he’s with Epoch Times.)
And WION.

They focus on the CCP virus and what’s going on with it. Straight up news with no MSM nonsense or politics.
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Ok thank you for tellin me about them my friend:hug:
 
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Setting Gentle Boundaries for Yourself During Quarantine


Parents all over the world are advocating for extra vacation, double and triple pay, and a lifetime subscription to wine and chocolate for their kids’ teachers.


And there has been plenty of talk about how to ground your children and ease their worries, while also enforcing reasonable boundaries that are sensitive to their tumultuous emotional and mental states.


But as we’re told time and again, what we do for others is always more impactful when we pour from a full cup ourselves.


And lots of us adults… aren’t doing as well as we thought we would be, given the amount of time we now have for the things we always say we want more of: time at home, time with family, time alone.


Ask yourself this: Are you feeling low on energy? Depressed? Anxious? Tense? Distracted and unable to focus?


If you said “yes” to any of those questions, now ask yourself this: If a dear friend told you they were feeling like that, and couldn’t see their way through it, would you serve your honesty on a bed of brutality?


It can be very difficult to be kind to ourselves (even if we know it’s good for us). The irony is, the less grace we have for ourselves, the less likely we are to feel motivated to get up and get going.


When Did We Get So Grown Up?


For so many of us, adulthood happened quickly. The line between childhood and adulthood may have been soft at the time…


But the distance of years marks that line distinctly, making it impossible to miss.


So that it seems like one day, out of nowhere, we were paying bills... working low-pay high-stress jobs, saving and saving only for a blown alternator to decimate our stockpile…


And we forgot what letting go felt like without spiralling out of control. What avoiding chores instead of assigning them to ourselves felt like. What a good night’s sleep can feel like when you’re insulated from future stressors.


The problem is that years of living in and acclimating to Western culture, we were never taught to set personal boundaries. Why not?


Because if we were taught personal boundaries, we would prioritize our rest. If we were to prioritize our rest, we wouldn’t extend ourselves beyond 40 hours a week at work…


Making sure we have two-income families, live in big houses, wear expensive clothes, drive newer car models, take all-inclusive vacations, and make bad choices in the space where we think no one else is looking.


Without knowing how to set boundaries for ourselves, we end up… disappointed.


A lot.


Replace the Ruler


Since we’re (unfortunately) not children anymore, our boundaries cannot be the same as they were then. There are consequences. And we can’t float listlessly, hoping our lives will run without us turning the gears.


But we can practice self-love by making personal guidelines for our own behavior.


Try some of these…


  1. Although it’s tempting, since you’re home all day and noticing things you don’t have (and are seeing ads for), don’t spend what you can’t afford. Make a rule!

Write a list of all the things you’ve got interest in purchasing, and give yourself a weekly purchase budget that includes essentials (groceries, bills, etc.) And at the end of the week, review your list of wants up against your budget. No need to be draconian – you’re allowed to treat yourself! Within reason.


  1. Honor your hunger. Especially if you have struggled with disordered eating in the past, the quarantine can be triggering for some people…

This might be the perfect time to try intuitive eating. Eat when you’re hungry. Eat until you’re full. Try to get introspective about why you’re eating… are you bored? Is there something you can do instead of eating, that you enjoy just as much, to honor your hunger?


  1. Understand that you are not living in a staycation. You are living in a crisis. That means that just because you are home, doesn’t mean you are resting. So you need to schedule daily rest and daily breaks just like you would if you were heading to the office or opening the restaurant every day.

If you’ve lost your job and you’re not able to work, give yourself some structure! Eat regular meals throughout the day at regular times. Schedule reading times, paint-by-numbers times, even stretching hours. Give yourself the full benefit of all the hours in the day, and don’t make it a punishment.


It’s EXCITING!


Treat yourself the way you would an anxious and overextended child (which is all we are, really).


Structure, boundaries, and gentle, loving forgiveness.


For more resources, visit us here.
 
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Today's Health Thought:
"You can go to the gym, drink your water, and take your vitamins, but if you don't deal with the stuff going on in your heart and head, you're still going to be unhealthy."
 
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Jimi said:
The Potential Dangers of Aspartame (Equal)
http://healthnewsyoucanuse.com/21is...f83f78384312dcc0558ed5d4c28cbfab114022b1ec50d
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I actually remember all of that Happening.
from the linked article:
Aspartame was not approved until 1981, and then only in dry foods. For over eight years, the FDA refused to approve it because of the seizures and brain tumors this drug produced in lab animals. The FDA continued to refuse to approve it until President Reagan took office (a friend of Searle) and fired the FDA commissioner who wouldn’t approve it. At that point, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed as commissioner. Even then, there was so much opposition to approval that a board of inquiry was set up. The board said, “Do not approve aspartame.” Dr. Hayes OVERRULED his own board of inquiry. Shortly after Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., approved the use of aspartame in carbonated beverages, he left for a position with G.D. Searle’s public relations firm.

I also remember Nutrisweet sliding in as well in beverages. It was not originally approved for use in soft drinks and such.
 
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