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Train Your Brain
September 22, 2014
The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.
-Liz Curtis Higgs

The Mind Unleashed website listed 10 ways to train your brain to let go of habits by creating new neural pathways.  Here are a few of them:

Identify the habit you’d like to transform and set the intention.  If there is this high intention, then creating new pathways in your brain is bound to happen.

Shift your focus.  To create a new neural pathway, you take the focus off the old habit, and then that old habit eventually falls away.

Use your imagination.  Just imagine the new behaviors over and over and over. Keep repeating that in your mind, so you build new pathways.

Interrupt your thoughts and patterns when they arise.  Say “no” or “cancel” when an old thought or impulse comes in, and say, “I don’t have to do that anymore.”





Learning From the Bumps in the Road

As you read about the bumps the authors have encountered throughout their careers, you will be encouraged and challenged to think more deeply and openly about your own practices and philosophies. You will gain a renewed sense of purpose as you help children reach their full potential. And, you will discover — as the authors did — that every bump in the road is an invitation to grow and opportunity to learn.

 

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Jane C Gatumu · September 22, 2014
University of Nairobi
Nairobi, Kenya


I Like the idea that each one of us has potential for a better tomorrow. This makes our teaching profession worth investing on as there is a lot we can do at any level.



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