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Weight Training Over 50 I like weight training over 50. I like weight training over 60, and the guys at my YMCA who are in their 80's call me "young blood". Diet Counseling When I began researching diet counseling, I discovered the usual kinds of research, which evaluated the benefit of face to face educational interventions for reducing heart disease and/or stroke for example. Father's Guide The kid is sneaky? When my son was perhaps five or six, he started asking "why" to every order or request he was given. Anger Counseling Anger counseling is a many splendored beast. Ever heard that old AA phrase or acronym HALT, for example? The acronym means that we are at greater risk for relapse when we are hungry, angry, lonely, or tired. Learning Plasticity The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves."--Marvin L. Minsky (from Society of the Mind, 1986) Aging Wellness Did you know you grow new brain cells every day? More on that further down. Did you know that you could enhance your brain's capacity to grow those new neurons? Elderly Counseling As I get closer to the designation of elderly, or as my 10 year old son says, "the ooooooollllllldddddd man", I am curious about what the counseling field has to say about working with Boomers and elderly counseling. Nutrition in the Elderly Nutrition in the elderly is something I am growing to be concerned with as I get older, especially as it relates to brain fitness. Parenting Relationships Parenting relationships are hard emotionally, and I think the key ingredient in parenting relationships is for the parent to manage their emotions, so that parenting is done from a system rather than an emotion. Emotional Intelligence and Business Can a business increase its emotional intelligence and its brain fitness? Parenting Counseling Parenting counseling, what does that mean? I am a parent, a late life parent, which has its own built in wisdom and deficiencies when the kids are almost 11 and just turned 5. Positive Psychology Coaching Positive psychology coaching has got to start internally with two key components, managing stress and creating brain fitness. The Brain In Love You arrive at your buddies house for a barbecue, six pack and bratwurst in hand. It is a spring day and you are still glad that lawn mowing is more needed than snow shoveling. You begin to make your rounds, greeting old friends, insulting their sports allegiances and perhaps their politics as only guys do to guys. Codependency Treatment My favorite codependency treatment self help tools involve biofeedback, brain fitness, sound and light, education, and reading. Assertive Communication Skills We talk a lot, and those conversations, if we use assertive communication skills, can make a big difference in how our relationships go. If I have anything to add to the assertive communication skills dialogue, it is an awareness of how rapidly we change internally based on our perception of and interpretation of nonverbal communications. Counseling Process What happens in the counseling process? Is it so mysterious? Exercise Over 60 Exercise over 60 is good for your brain. That is the bottom line for me. How to Increase Your Brain Power How to increase your brain power means how to increase two capacities of the human brain, called neurogenesis and neuroplasticity. To Increase Brain Power Strategies to increase brain power are the strategies that make it possible for the brain to do more of what it already does, grow new neurons and facilitate effective new connections between neurons. Increase Mind Power To increase mind power, that is the question, to paraphrase the bard, and that phrase can mean so many different things to so many diffe Neuroplasticity Exercises Neuroscientific dogma up until about ten years ago was that past a certain point in our lives, our brain did not change, we had what we had, and that was it. In fact, any change would be that it shrank, actually, as neurons died. Brain Neuroplasticity Is it possible to self-direct brain neuroplasticity? As I have explored the concept of brain fitness, two words keep popping up over and over, neuroplasticity and neurogenesis. Brain Fitness for Seniors Not sure where you are in the Senior Continuum, but I am 61, which I believe qualifies me. My brain tells me so when it struggles to find just the right word, or when I cannot remember why I just came into a room. Is there such a thing as brain fitness for seniors? Brain Walk In this day and age of interesting graphics and visuals, the words brain walk conjure up a funny mental image. What Happens In Brain Training Programs Anyway? According to Evans and Burghardt, our brains are constantly engaging in an internal recalibration. Our brains use about 20% of our bodies daily fuel requirement, and in an attempt to use it wisely, our brains are constantly building and dismantling circuits inside our heads, the circuits being neurons that fire together when a certain task is undertaken. Brain Exercise The problem: I lost my car keys. What kind of brain exercise will make my brain work better? Improve Brain Health Who would have thought that one could improve brain health? I mean, if I go to the gym and do biceps exercises, or squats, there is a way to measure my progress. The Science of Romance? Can the science of romance reduce the power and passion of love to brain circuitry? Can the science of love develop a pill that enhances or reduces romance and love? Will Valentine's day become a relic? Will all the books written on the art of seduction become a thing of the past? How Do Brain Fitness Exercises Work? It turns out that brain fitness exercises work in at least three ways, depending on the kind of exercise we are doing, a thinking exercise or a physical exercise, or a computerized training. Is the Brain Fitness Program Dull? When I think of mental aerobics, I experience a sinking feeling and a thought about drudgery, and research and libraries, and writing term papers. Brain Training Program Curious about brain training programs? Is there anything to them besides smoke and mirrors? I have been using four of them, and I like them, but here is information from two University of Michigan researchers who offer an e-book which draws on their professional expertise to explain in a humorous way that brain fitness is certainly something we can cultivate. Brain Fitness Kits What is in your brain fitness kit? It could impact what is in your wallet as well, to paraphrase the Capital One commercials.