Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Choose ice water over ice cream. Walk the stairs rather than wait on elevators. Laugh. Make new friends daily. Give away rather than hoard. Learn technologies that interest teens.  Step to music at times.

Your brain is larger than life led by most people … whenever you take advantage of its magical intelligences.

New imaging techniques highlight where to begin to live ... beyond the mind of a slug. Exercise and you stimulate brain hormones that aid memory. Laugh and you add enzymes for learning. Use  multiple intelligences and you’ll produce dendrite brain cells  that keep your mind sharper as you age.

A great deal is written lately about nuns who learned to beat the pathology of aging and then worked to reduce the damage by ratcheting up their mental functions. Research is still showing the amazing results from these nuns, many of whom are now in their late 80s and 90s.

Nutritional food is central, and lifestyles are just as healthy. It’s more than what the nuns avoid though … such as tobacco and alcohol. These sisters live highly active lifestyles through exercise, meditation, gardening, musical activities, crafts and laughter.

Interestingly, researchers found the nuns' brains to be riddled with Alzheimer’s … as seen through autopsy’s of those who passed.  Surprisingly though ...  their lifestyles show health, and vitality far past the age that most seniors stay mentally alert. What will you do today at work to add mental vitality?  

This research shows the high value of simple choices made on an ordinary day ... and it starts well before those golden years. We cannot always control the pathology or alter the direction of gene pools as we age. We can however generate mental well being ... simply by healthy choices made daily ... and by using a few more intelligences.