Happy New Year! Today offers the first moment of a finer day and a brighter future, if we question with two feet. Step one can spark curiosity and step two can motivate action for a finer direction! Our brain will do the rest to celebrate 2021 with all it holds… Read more »
Where are you isolated, and what’s your frame? When we cultivate home beyond any pandemic’s panic or prickles, we rest and feel comforted and deeply content there! Sad truth also lies on the other side of this challenge as we hear S. Knezel ask further: “Why do we fight so… Read more »
With curiosity as our force, we look into each sunrise as another curtain opened into marvelous opportunities where wings of grace can carry our day. What could curiosity find to delight your day? YOUR TURN! Join our Brain Based Circles! Would love to meet you at any of the following!… Read more »
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Our brain operates hope as its power tool to rebuild after trouble (such as Coronavirus pandemic) strikes. Unfortunately however, our brain also slides into despair, a pre-condition that prevents us from accessing hope’s best benefits at times. Did you know for instance, that laughter sets the brain’s stage for hope… Read more »
I could have become an opioid statistic. My mother died of cancer at 38, which left me out on Barrington Street in Halifax, alone at 14. As mom deteriorated, so also did home life and hope. My sister, two older brothers and I, slipped out the back door after dinner… Read more »
After a fun discussion over their favorite jello treats, my grandchildren and I just agreed to change our gift-giving Christmas tradition, for a new practice of gifts given by Nana to causes we each identify. It’s really about extending hope to others, from our appreciation and love for one another…. Read more »
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When hope yields to daily mandated routines, our brains slip into dangerous ruts! Do your routines rob our hope? What about mandated routines? Looking for tips to reboot magical hope for a new season? I like to start with the two-footed question: What awakens hope in you in spite of difficulties… Read more »
At Deb Scott’s Radio Show, “The Best People we Know Show,” we were discussing how most people know what change looks like, yet far fewer seem sure how to launch great changes. Without warning, alterations can dump you from a job you love on one day, or land you in a once- in –a- lifetime opportunity the next.
Check out the NPR story to hear of a man who looked for hope and found it in abundance for sick people who had lost theirs. Do you hold hope in tough times? Research shows how hope lives within more areas of the human brain than once recognized. No question,… Read more »