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The Brain’s Way of Healing, Norman Doidge, MD (F, 60s, gray hair, floral tote bag, sticky note bookmark, G train)

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Core Principles of Feldenkrais: Norman Doidge's Perspective - Dallas Feldenkrais

Core Principles of Feldenkrais: Norman Doidge’s Perspective – Dallas Feldenkrais

Excellent article from colleague Angela Alston at Dallas Feldenkrais. Core Principles of Feldenkrais: Norman Doidge’s Perspective – Dallas Feldenkrais.

Have a read. What resonates with you?

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We love being in love not only because it makes it easy for us to be happy but also because it makes it harder for us to be unhappy.

Research shows that when our pleasure centers fire, it is more difficult for the nearby pain and aversion centers to fire too.

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Fun learning is better learning

Another "Brain That Changes Itself" post - chapter 3 Doidge focuses on the work of Michael Merzenich.  In describing Fast ForWord, a program to assist people with learning difficulties, Doidge states:

Whenever a goal is achieved, something funny happens...This "reward" is a crucial feature of the program, because each time the child is rewarded, his brain secretes such neurotransmitters as dopamine and acetylcholine, which help consolidate the map changes he has just made. 

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me, taken by my best friend gem who i haven't seen in ages.

miss my gemlem x

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We grieve by calling up one memory at a time, reliving it, and then letting it go

Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself, p.118.