Neuroplasticity: The Brain's Way of Healing: Ultimate Guide to Using Brain Plasticity and Rewiring Your Brain for Change by Randal Cunningham

Author:Randal Cunningham
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Living Sublime
Published: 2016-02-04T18:30:00+00:00

What Can You Do?

Now that you are aware that stress severely disrupts your ability to achieve better behavior and improve positive learning, then it is time for you to learn how to manage stress. Here are some tips on how you can cut back on stress and heal your brain:

1. Take your daily breaks.

Make sure that you take a break from work every two hours. Take a walk outside your office, stretch your legs, or do any other activity –just make sure that you do not engage your tasks for too long. Taking breaks refreshes your mind, and would enable you to look at your work with fresh eyes.

2. Take your vacations.

Offices encourage their employees to take their vacation leaves, and that is for a good reason– those who take their vacations have better creativity and are proven to be more productive than those who stay in the office. Vacations renew your motivation and also provide you the inspiration that you need to look at your tasks with fresh eyes.

Taking vacations is also a sure way for you to engage in new activities–they allow you to travel to new places, engage with people from different cultures, and try out new things. Since you are bound to do things that you enjoy during your days off work, you are exposing yourself to activities that do not take a toll on your brain.

3. Meditate.

Meditation is proven to be one of the most effective stress-relievers. At the same time, it also provides beneficial effects to your immune system and your brain’s overall structure.

Whenever you meditate, you toughen your brain’s frontal cortex, which decreases over time. By practicing meditation, you reverse the effects of age on this region. That means that you reduce the risk of brain injury that you are likely to acquire as you get older.

4. Practice positive thinking.

Negative emotions do not only promote stress, but also diminish your brain’s potential to better adapt positive habits. Since you are working on your brain’s plasticity, you would want to make sure that you also train yourself to automatically develop an attitude that would allow you to remain positive in the face of challenges.

By having a positive attitude towards tasks and difficulties, you would be able to better exercise critical thinking and learn better approaches to solve problems. When you approach things with positive thinking, you enable yourself to see that every challenge allows you to adapt new skills and knowledge.

5. Have adequate sleep.

Adults need about 7 to 9 hours of sleep in order to integrate learning, renew willpower, and combat brain fatigue after a long day. When you sleep, you also allow your brain to comb through all the information that you have received and decide what you need and what you need to purge. When you make it a point to have a restful sleep, you will find yourself able to make better decisions in the morning and have the motivation to focus on your goals.

6. Practice action-oriented thoughts.

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