Can I improve my memory with exercise?

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” ~ Robert Frost They say that as you age the first thing to go is memory. Here is information on improving and maintaining your memory. Brain Exercises Improve [...]

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Are you right or left brain?

“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” ~ Albert Einstein We know that the right and left hemispheres of  the brain control different functions in our lives. Here is information on how to exercise each. Are There Left and Right Brain Exercises? How [...]

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Do you play mind games?

“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle The reference to mind games in this instance is not a reference to the dirty tricks some people play on others or the games we play [...]

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Is there an art to thinking?

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” ~E.E. Cummings, 1955 Is there an art to thinking? Is there an art to living? I think you [...]

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How you think creates you?

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.” ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Our ability to think for ourselves or lack of that ability can help or hurt us. Here is an article about the ramifications of our thought. Think Highly of Yourself By Shahreen [...]

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Do you think for yourself?

“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.  I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.  I was naïve.  I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could [...]

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Do you follow the crowd?

“Don’t think you’re on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path.” ~Author Unknown Today I offer the thoughts of one’s experience with thinking for himself. How to Be Realistic and Genuinely Think For Yourself Without Fear Or Dishonesty By Joshua Clayton It is hard not to follow the mass mind and group consciousness [...]

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What do you think?

“You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big [...]

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Are you listening more?

“The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. And only she who listens can speak.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold As mentioned at the beginning of the week, it feels good when you are connected with spirit. It is at those times that you are most [...]

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What do you do when you hit the wall?

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~ Mother Teresa At one time or another we all hit the wall as the saying goes. We get stuck. What do you do when that happens. Here is some advice on how to overcome the hurdles. Twelve [...]

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