use your mind to optimize healing
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Use Your Mind to Optimize Healing. It all starts with a thought…. Glen Glenda Christiaens, PhD, RN, AHN-BC. Move it. Improved thinking skills Successful aging Decreased risk of Dementia Alzheimer’s Disease Stroke Decreased Depression Anxiety. “I am Happy” “I am Healthy” - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Use Your Mind to Optimize Healing
Glen
Glenda Christiaens, PhD, RN, AHN-BC
It all starts with a thought…
Move it
• Improved thinking skills• Successful aging• Decreased risk of – Dementia– Alzheimer’s Disease– Stroke
• Decreased – Depression– Anxiety
“I am Happy”“I am Healthy”
“I am Beautiful”
Negative thoughts
Negative emotions
Stress Response
Stress Begins with a Thought
“I don’t need to think that.”
“Cancel, Cancel”
Healing Begins with a Thought
Mental Rehearsal Stimulates the Same Part of the Brain as Physical Rehearsal
Motor Cortex
Mental rehearsal activates the same motor circuits as actual rehearsal
Imagination Can Change Your Mind
College Professors
Soccer Hooligans
Use Your Mind to Optimize Healing
“I don’t need to think that”
“Cancel, cancel”
Movement
Relaxation
Positive Affirmations
Imagination
Mental Rehearsal
Book List
Begley, Sharon (2007) Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves. Ballantine Books, New York. Iacoboni, Marco (2008). Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York. Medina, John (2008). Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. Pear Press, Seattle
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