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“I exert considerable effort now to keep my depression distant like how the sun is to the moon. I practice mindfulness now, and I am aware whenever I feel de-energized, depressed and anxious. I just observe these feelings and tell myself that it’s just my mental illness and I should never confuse my biology with my true self. And I am a smart, creative and loving person who just happens to have a chemical imbalance in the brain. I love writing poetry. I love spending time with my family. I love going to the beach. These are the things that make me who I am. Love is the reason why I get out of bed in the morning. Love is the reason why I have this strong commitment to recovering from being suicidal, isolated and self-destructive. Love is the reason why I have this strong desire to change my life for the better. I jog at least half an hour a day because releasing endorphins is just freaking great. I forgive myself now for the little things. Even my father. I have a haircut once every two weeks because I notice that when I look in the mirror and feel handsome—my whole being feels lovely. I text my best friend. I tell him that I’m still fighting my depression. I tell him that I’m doing okay. I eat healthy foods, and I have a schedule every day for my life, and I’m fucking accomplishing things. I’m going out of the house more often now. I’m not that afraid anymore. I’m really making progress. I’m free from the four corners of my dark room and realize that it doesn’t have to be my prison anymore. I can simply choose to go outside and smell the yellow flowers and tell them that I love them. Because I am growing like them. Because I am beautiful like them. And I am grateful for my struggle because it has taught me that I am more resilient than I think. I listen to a song, and I just keep on hoping that things will get better because I am working on it every single day to choose the things that are best for my healing. And let myself be enough.”

— Juansen Dizon, Recovery

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7 Habits that Improve Brain Power

“Geniuses don’t have more brain power than the average person, they just use their brains more efficiently”.

I was thrilled when I came across this quote. For years, I believed that geniuses had higher IQs and more brain power than average person and that’s what made them more efficient in what they did. The moment I read this quote, I said to myself, “Wow! If I could learn to how to improve my brain power, then I would be more productive at both work and life”. I always had a tough time multitasking between my writing jobs, home schooling my daughter, helping her with practice, cooking, cleaning, doing the dishes, laundry, etc. (the list goes on). I was not on any kind of social media like Facebook or Twitter or IMs (instant messengers) as I didn’t have the time (nor the interest). I used pat myself for being “old-school”. I couldn’t snatch time for entertainment though at times I wished to watch some good movies. Round the clock I got tangled with one task after the other; sometimes doing two together. Yet I struggled to multi-task and felt bad when I was unable to do all that I had planned for the day. I wished I could improve my brain power to multi-task. I hated to push off tasks for the following day but I found myself physically and mentally exhausted without much options left.

I started reflecting and contemplating where I was going wrong in spite of trying hard to prioritize my tasks and using the best of the time management principles every day. I realized that my multi-tasking was actually draining me down instead of improving my mind power and physical stamina. Interestingly the quote I read led me to read an article which startled me. The text that I read was something like this:

Your Brain Can Multitask: True or False?

A voice inside me said: “TRUE…but only you’re bad at it…Humph!”

But I was surprised to find the text as: FALSE…

What I read got me onto my feet. “What? My brain can’t multitask?” I asked myself. Yes, that’s what the neuroscience research has proved.

“Your Brain Can’t Multitask”

Author John Medina in his book ‘Brain Rules’ states that studies show that people who multitask often end up taking double the time to finish a task and tend to do 50 percent of mistakes (Jordan, 2011). Jordan (2011) suggests that instead of multi-tasking we need to do multi-sense.

He recommends 7 habits to improve brain power.

1. Instead of Multitasking, Multi-Sense.

When we multitask, we actually slow down and take more time to complete a task at hand. Hence we need to multi-sense. We need to….

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