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• Counseling Self Esteem
  In counseling self esteem, I am reminded of step four in the AA program, which states that the alcoholic needed to make a fearless and thorough moral inventory of themselves in order to determine their defects of character which need to be changed and transformed in order to remain sober.
  Published 15Nov2009, viewed 136 times

• Counseling Children of Divorce
  Counseling children of divorce can be heart rending. But those of us in the field may forget how perceptive children are, how closely attuned to mom and dad's relationship they are.
  Published 13Nov2009, viewed 10 times

• Counseling Students
  So you want to be a counseling student, or perhaps you are a counseling student, looking for some funny stories, or you want to counsel students.
  Published 06Nov2009, viewed 13 times

• How to Improve Brain Power
  How to improve brain power is very much akin to how to improve muscle power.
  Published 01Nov2009, viewed 15 times

• Meditation Thoughts
  Meditation thoughts are a bit of an oxymoron. Meditation is actually about getting beyond thoughts, depending on the tradition.
  Published 01Nov2009, viewed 14 times

• Phone Counselor
  It appears that the key word term "phone counselor" can apply to a number of different situations, one like that described in the job application below. By the way, that job has been filled.
  Published 01Nov2009, viewed 25 times

• 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".
  Published 17Nov2009, viewed 56 times

• 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.
  Published 06Nov2009, viewed 2 times

• 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.
  Published 04Nov2009, viewed 31 times

• 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.
  Published 04Nov2009, viewed 102 times

• Improving Memory
  So you are my age, 61, and worried about memory aging? But you are a Boomer and we have grown up with a "can do", "we can change it" kind of mindset, and over the course of your life, you have watched your world change because of choices you and others have made individually or in concert.
  Published 26Oct2009, viewed 28 times

• 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.
  Published 14Oct2009, viewed 33 times

• 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?
  Published 08Oct2009, viewed 53 times

• 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.
  Published 08Oct2009, viewed 221 times

• Learning Plasticity
  The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves."--Marvin L. Minsky (from Society of the Mind, 1986)
  Published 08Oct2009, viewed 204 times

• Emotional Intelligence and Business
  Can a business increase its emotional intelligence and its brain fitness?
  Published 30Sep2009, viewed 245 times

• 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.
  Published 16Sep2009, viewed 61 times

• 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.
  Published 16Sep2009, viewed 64 times

• Positive Psychology Coaching
  Positive psychology coaching has got to start internally with two key components, managing stress and creating brain fitness.
  Published 10Sep2009, viewed 53 times

• 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.
  Published 02Sep2009, viewed 55 times

• 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.
  Published 02Sep2009, viewed 852 times

• Codependence in Relationships
  Codependency in relationships is an interesting concept. I remember when I began to hear about codependency, about 30 years ago, and the first book I remember reading was by Sharon Wegschieder-Cruse called Hope and Health for the Alcoholic Family, and what struck me about her work was the roles that the children took on, including family hero, out of sight, out of mind, and the scapegoat.
  Published 25Aug2009, viewed 61 times

• Codependency Treatment
  My favorite codependency treatment self help tools involve biofeedback, brain fitness, sound and light, education, and reading.
  Published 19Aug2009, viewed 477 times

• Exercise Over 60
  Exercise over 60 is good for your brain. That is the bottom line for me.
  Published 14Aug2009, viewed 83 times

• 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.
  Published 13Aug2009, viewed 71 times

• Counseling Process
  What happens in the counseling process? Is it so mysterious?
  Published 06Aug2009, viewed 91 times

• The Role of Brain Fitness in Self Help Programs
  If you have read Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi's book FLOW, which is treatise on the psychology of optimal performance, then you know that we process sound, visual, touch, smell, and taste information at the rate of seven bits of data every 1/18th second, so self help programs need to be learned and implemented in a very short period of time. (1/18th second is twice as fast as I can blink my eyes).
  Published 28Jul2009, viewed 59 times

• 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.
  Published 17Jul2009, viewed 129 times

• 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
  Published 09Jul2009, viewed 233 times

• Emotional Competence
  Emotional Competence is a learnable competence. My domestic violence mentor, Tony Kubicki, long ago taught me that awareness gives me choice, and that awareness is the key component to emotional competence.
  Published 08Jul2009, viewed 117 times

• Adult Neurogenesis
  Adult neurogenesis is real. We grow new brain cells on a daily basis. When you are my age, 61, that is good news.
  Published 08Jul2009, viewed 83 times

• 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.
  Published 25Jun2009, viewed 102 times

• Brain Aerobics Software
  Brain aerobics software? Do you remember where you were the first time you heard the word 'aerobic'? I was probably in a saloon, exercising a Saturday afternoon away on the long board, and the bowling machine, while sipping a few too many tall cool ones.
  Published 15Jun2009, viewed 107 times

• 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.
  Published 11Jun2009, viewed 110 times

• 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?
  Published 03Jun2009, viewed 106 times

• Brain Class
  The bell has rung, and brain class has begun. Norman Doidge, MD, and Sharon Begley, authors of "The Brain That Changes Itself" and "Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain" respectively, have made the idea of brain fitness common knowledge, and the marketers are flooding the marketplace with verbiage that seduces and excites.
  Published 27May2009, viewed 115 times

• Brain Health
  Brain Health probably brings to mind images of Sigmund Freud for most folks, and worries about their oedipal complex, whatever that might be.
  Published 24May2009, viewed 103 times

• Brain Walk
  In this day and age of interesting graphics and visuals, the words brain walk conjure up a funny mental image.
  Published 24May2009, viewed 89 times

• Brain Exercise
  The problem: I lost my car keys. What kind of brain exercise will make my brain work better?
  Published 24Apr2009, viewed 143 times

• 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.
  Published 13May2009, viewed 69 times

• 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.
  Published 12May2009, viewed 87 times

• Brain Improve
  Brain improve? Who doesn't want to improve their brain? I mean, almost all advertising in our culture implies that with just a bit more mental oomph, another degree, a harder workout, or this or that potion or pill, you too can own the Mercedes, or the mansion, or be a super hero kind of guy.
  Published 01May2009, viewed 121 times

• Brain Articles
  There are brain articles popping up all over the place, as marketers and scientists and commentators and consumers and writers discover that there are a lot of things we can do to help our brains do what they do so well, process sensory data. But beware.
  Published 27Apr2009, viewed 118 times

• Brain Tips
  Have you been searching for just the right brain tips, the ones that get you a raise, or fame and fortune?
  Published 21Apr2009, viewed 100 times

• Does Cognitive Decline Begin at Age 27?
  Has your Cognitive Decline begun? Are you older than age 27? According to a recent interpretation of Professor Timothy Salthouse's work, cognitive decline has begun for us, in some tests, even earlier than age 27.
  Published 14Apr2009, viewed 94 times

• 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?
  Published 14Apr2009, viewed 124 times

• Brain Classes
  I could see brain classes in community college schedule books soon, perhaps as a continuing education class, and as research continues to advance what we can legitimately claim for brain fitness, perhaps even four year schools or graduate schools would include a brain class, or an improve your brain class.
  Published 08Apr2009, viewed 134 times

• How Do Brain Fitness Exercizes 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.
  Published 01Apr2009, viewed 126 times

• 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.
  Published 19Mar2009, viewed 141 times

• Brain Fitness Kit
  What is in your brain fitness kit? It could impact what is in your wallet as well, to paraphrase the Capital One commercials.
  Published 07Mar2009, viewed 169 times

• 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.
  Published 07Mar2009, viewed 137 times

• Brain Age Games
  Does brain fitness exercising work for older folks? Just came across some interesting research from Arthur Kramer at the University of Illinois, which buttresses the already steady stream of information about how brain fitness can be improved across the lifespan.
  Published 11Feb2009, viewed 122 times

• Brain Fitness and Your New Year's Resolutions
  The brain is an amazing organ. I cannot pick up a fork to eat my apple pie until the brain makes it possible, no matter how hungry I am. And now we can maximize our brain's fitness to maximize our income, IQ, memory, fluid intelligence, decison making, and yes, even your desire for apple pie can be modified
  Published 03Feb2009, viewed 111 times

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