In this short video, Sharp Brains founder, Alvaro Fernandez, talks about four pillars of brain health:

1. physical fitness
2. mental stimulation
3. good nutrition
4. stress management

Fernandez’s model of brain health well complements the 9 Pillars of Bright Wellness and Healing, which emphasizes the often unrecognized power of personal choice as a primary factor in one’s wellness. The more we learn about cognitive fitness, the more emergent evidence validates that we have considerable influence over how well our brain is nurtured, how it works, and how to better develop one’s cognitive abilities.

For further learning and brain fitness resources, check out

• Encyclopedia Britannica’s forum, Multitasking: Boon or Bane?
• The Mouse Trap’s Encephalon #79

Choose to be healthy and fit for a better life. @DoctorJames

There is considerable evidence that simply becoming aware of the ability to choose and then choosing to see something healthy or to create something beneficial is an act of will (volitional) and a cognitive skill that can be used for a healthier and happier lifestyle. A daily mental health goal is to integrate positive, uplifting, and useful resources and tools into one’s living. Recently, two articles at Positive Psychology News Daily focused on creating wellness, optimism, and positive living.

• Energy: Spiritual, Emotional, Mental, and Physical by Kathryn Britton
• Balance and Health: How Do Positive Emotions Lead to Good Health? by Wayne Jencke
  

  Four Quadrants of Human Energy

Many are experiencing anxiety regarding the current global economic crisis and American political changes, as well as the political winds of change around the planet. It helps during such times to cultivate optimal wellness by:

• affirming the joy and goodness in and around ourselves and taking actions to perpetuate it
• minimizing exposure to negative sources: media, people, situations, etc.
• supporting well-being by proper physical care of the body: eating nutritiously, sleeping adequately, stretching and moving our bodies with superior hygiene
• nourishing and growing our connections with others, with animals, and with the Earth
• sharing with others and caring for the Earth

We can choose to prosper or we can choose how we wish to respond to or interact with the external and objective events of the day, of our life, and of our world. It is an act of personal empowerment to responsibly create our lives. Let us choose to create a life of health, fitness, and happiness will emerge. @DoctorJames