Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Building Self-EfficacyNew Zealand has a new government in place, one with, I hope, quite a different philosophy of social change to the previous one. I don’t think my health blog is necessarily the place to talk politics, but I do want to talk about different [...]

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This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Building Self-EfficacyIt’s an old joke. A man hurrying along a New York street asks a passing musician, “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?”
The musician replies, “Practice, man. Practice.”
photo credit: t_a_i_s
But Carnegie Hall isn’t the only destination that can be reached by practice. Regular [...]

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This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Building Self-EfficacySharpBrains have an interesting interview with neuroscientist Michael Posner, in which he talks about attention and how a new neuroimaging technique called diffusion tensor is helping to reveal the brain’s networks.
Posner’s research suggests that what we call “attention” has three elements:

Alerting – you might [...]

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