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Train Your Mind to Stop Stress in 5 Steps with Neuro-Reflective Thinking
Neuro-Reflective Thinking is a very effective method for training your mind to deactivate stress mechanisms and rapidly improve your overall mental well-being.
How Neuroscience Can Help You to Joyfully Do Things That You Dislike But Can’t Avoid
We all have numerous activities in our lives that we dislike but cannot avoid. However, it is just a missing link in your neurologic programming that prevents you from being able to make yourself feel positive and motivated while doing them. Fortunately, neuroscientsts have invented a method to create that link, so that you will never have to suffer anymore when you need to do things that you would rather avoid.
Learn to Control Your Mind at a Higher Level With the Power of Your Neurochemicals during the Brain Awareness Week
Do you want to learn to control your mood, energy, motivation, and thinking capacities at a higher level by consciously influencing the working of your hormones and other neurochemicals? Come to our presentations and visit our workshops on the Open Brain Awareness Day during the Brain Awareness Week at the Erasmus University College.
Beat the Low Mood on Gloomy Winter Days by Turning Over Your Neurologic Switches from Low to High Energy Mode
You may believe that bad weather and the lack of sunlight are the reasons why people tend to feel low on energy, melancholic, or even depressed during the winter period. In fact, you only experience low mood and low energy on dark, cold, gloomy days, because your brain wants you to feel that way in such conditions.
Scientists from Finland Show, That All Your Stress and Happiness Is Generated by Your Body, Not by Your Brain
If you understand better how your body participates in the creation and regulation of your emotions you can learn to gain much more control over all your positive or negative feelings.
Relieve Your Stress by Using Your Body’s Priority to Create Tension or Relaxation in Your Nervous System
Your body has priority over your mind in expressing feelings of stress or relaxation. This is because your nervous system’s communication to your brain about whether everything is functioning properly inside your body is more important for your survival than responding with feelings to your thoughts.
The 3 Neurologic Requirements of Falling Asleep Easily and Having Quality Nighttime
If you sometimes struggle to fall asleep or wake up feeling tired, you might not be meeting all of the fundamental requirements for a good night’s sleep. By developing more awareness about them, you can immediately raise your sleep quality to a much higher level.
The Strange Nature of Your Neurologic Response to Success, and Its Negative Consequences
Our success-related neurologic response mechanisms have some problematic aspects. When you achieve something important, dopamine is released in certain reward pathways in your brain. However, for the same achievement repeated again and again, that reward usually decreases.
The Drawbacks of Your Intelligence, and How to Fix Them
If you examine the evolutionary origins of your mechanisms of stress and happynes, you can discover how more and more inner conflicts have been developed as human intelligence evolved. If you understand better why and how these conflicts have emerged, you can learn to resolve them in yourself.
Learn From Turtles How to Enter an Exceptionally Deep Level of Relaxation at Any Time
Turtles can bring themselves into a deeply relaxed state when diving underwater to use as little oxygen as possible. It allows them to stay there for a very long time without breathing. You can learn to induce the same neurological mechanism in yourself through a simple exercise, which can also bring you to an exceptionally deep and joyful state of relaxation whenever you desire.
The Simple Mechanism That Generates Your Motivation, and 9 Ways to Consciously Control It
You can read a stack of books on motivation, but at the end of the day you will see that it all comes down to only two simple factors.