🧠 Exercise and brain health: Physical activity boosts neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, and noradrenaline, enhancing mood and focus. 💪 Immediate effects: A single workout can improve attention and reaction times for at least two hours post-exercise. 🔄 Long-term benefits: Regular exercise increases hippocampal volume and improves long-term memory.

🧍‍♂️ Attention and focus: Exercise enhances attention and focus, which depend on the prefrontal cortex.😊 Mood improvement: Sustained exercise maintains higher levels of mood-enhancing neurotransmitters over time.🛡️ Protective effects: Exercise strengthens the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, areas vulnerable to aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

🏋️‍♂️ Accessibility: Achieving benefits requires moderate exercise, like brisk walking, without needing a gym. 🔬 Personal journey: Suzuki’s own experience with exercise led her to shift her research focus to study its brain benefits.

👩‍🔬 Scientific backing: Suzuki’s findings align with a growing body of research supporting exercise’s positive impact on brain function. 🎯 Optimum exercise prescription: Ongoing research aims to tailor exercise recommendations to individual needs for maximum brain health benefits.

A single workout that you do will immediately increase levels of neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, and noradrenaline. That is going to increase your mood right after that workout.

What's the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today? Exercise! says neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. Get inspired to go to the gym as Suzuki discusses the science of how working out boosts your mood and memory -- and protects your brain against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

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Gratification is the emotional reaction to pleasure or satisfaction, which is generated in the brain’s dopamine motive system. A fulfilling experience causes the neurotransmitter dopamine to surge, causing the feeling of pleasure.

Gratification?

Instant gratification is the urge to choose immediate pleasure at the expense of long-term rewards, driven by neurological responses such as dopamine surges in the brain’s pleasure centers.

Instant gratification?

Immediate gratification influences decision-making in favor of short-term gains.

Effect on decision-making

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Checking social media accounts rather than spending time with family</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Snoozing the alarm to sleep in 5 more minutes and not arriving at the workplace on time</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Eating unhealthy fast food instead of sticking to a healthy diet</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Making impulse purchases and incurring debt</li></ul>

Examples Of Instant Gratification

Humans are innately prone to seeking immediate pressure and avoiding pain evolutionarily. Neurobiologically, temptation causes a rapid surge in the neurotransmitter dopamine, making immediate pleasure more salient and discounts distant rewards.

What Causes Instant Gratification?

This surge in pleasure, combined with low self-control, contributes to instant gratification.

<ul><li>Label Your Child “Patient”</li><li>Do Not Lie To Your Child</li><li>Teach Situation Selection Strategies</li><li>Teach Situation Modification Strategies</li><li>Teach Attention-Focused Strategies</li><li>Teach Response-Focused Strategies</li><li>Teach Mindfulness</li></ul>

How to help children avoid instant gratification?

Being labeled “patient” helped children build a positive self-image. Their positive self-concept turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

1. Label Your Child “Patient”

Being lied to causes uncertainty. When children are uncertain about the future, they become risk-averse and apply temporal discounting to reduce perceived values of future rewards.

2. Do Not Lie To Your Child

Situation selection involves choosing environments or social contexts that minimize exposure to temptations and promote goal-directed behavior. This strategy is about proactively avoiding situations that trigger unwanted impulses.

3. Teach Situation Selection Strategies

Situation modification involves altering the existing environment to reduce the impact of tempting stimuli. This strategy is about actively reshaping the immediate context to support self-control.

4. Teach Situation Modification Strategies

Attention-focused strategies involve directing attention towards goal-relevant stimuli and away from tempting stimuli. These strategies help regulate the focus of conscious awareness.

5. Teach Attention-Focused Strategies

Response-focused strategies involve modulating one’s behavioral responses to tempting impulses. These strategies are employed when a tempting impulse is already underway.

6. Teach Response-Focused Strategies

Mindfulness allows children to reflect on and regulate their thinking and behavior.

7. Teach Mindfulness

Instantly gratified children, examples, help children overcome low self-impulse and strengthen control.

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Improving mental health awareness can make our society more understanding and accepting. Education and support can decrease stigma and promote well-being.
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 <li>Learn about mental health to better understand it.</li>
 <li>Speak up against discrimination and support your peers.</li>
 <li>Take care of your own mental health and seek help when needed.</li>
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Understand that just because something is immoral doesn't mean some people won't do it. Having faith in people as a whole doesn't translate into trusting random strangers in the street. Be careful who you're talking to, and what their intentions might be.

Not Everyone Is A Saint

Avoid sketchy roads. This isn't some kind of game where we take unnecessary chances. We've all seen how corny thrillers end. Try picking roads that are busy, have lighting, or a popular shop nearby that you can always ask for help in case of emergency. Have your keys in your hands so that you won't have to spend time looking for them and expose yourself to danger when you arrive.

Be Proactive

You can't go around using your headphones and staring at your mobile phone while walking down a road alone at 2 AM. The music and your super important Instagram notifications can wait a few minutes. You are throwing away your vision and your hearing, which are mainly responsible for your everyday survival. Avoid being drunk or under the influence of anything that restricts your ability to understand what's going on around you. Avoid the corners and build a distance between you and any possible threat. Make space so that you are able to react faster if something happens.

Be Aware Of Your Surroundings

Do not argue/fight especially for things that won't matter tomorrow or even in 2 hours time. You never know what the other person is carrying on them, you don't know if they're under the influence of anything and you don't know if they're malicious. Martial arts can help as a last resort but if you have to choose between fight and flight, ALWAYS choose the latter, the problem can't harm you if you're not there to let it do so. If you ever get caught and the situation seems threatening, give up the desired belongings, they're never worth your life.

Avoid Conflict

Never have something like a knife or a taser on you unless you know how to use it perfectly. It can work as a warning for the other person but if they're not intimidated they could very well use your weapon against you if it comes in their possession. The person attacking you is probably much more experienced at this than you are. Again, if you do have them on you, it's absolutely last resort. Always prefer running away from the situation. It's literally the best defence.

Double Edged Sword

Ask for help. Have a group of friends take you home after a long night. Get a taxi. It's better to "waste" some money and get home safe than risk encountering an experience that might even negatively change your life forever.

Better Safe Than Sorry

Given the fact that we live in dangerous times, we have to build up our ability to cope in an urban setting.

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But whenever I talk about the stages of grief, I have to remind people that the stages aren’t linear and may not happen in this order. It’s not a map but it provides some scaffolding for this unknown world. There’s denial, which we say a lot of early on: This virus won’t affect us . There’s anger: You’re making me stay home and taking away my activities. There’s bargaining: Okay, if I social distance for two weeks everything will be better, right? There’s sadness: I don’t know when this will end. And finally there’s acceptance.

Understanding the stages of grief is a start

Unhealthy anticipatory grief is really anxiety, and that’s the feeling you’re talking about. Our mind begins to show us images. My parents getting sick. We see the worst scenarios. That’s our minds being protective. Our goal is not to ignore those images or to try to make them go away — your mind won’t let you do that and it can be painful to try and force it. The goal is to find balance in the things you’re thinking . If you feel the worst image taking shape, make yourself think of the best image. We all get a little sick and the world continues.

Let’s go back to anticipatory grief

Acceptance, as you might imagine, is where the power lies. We find control in acceptance. I can wash my hands. I can keep a safe distance. I can learn how to work virtually.

Acceptance

You can also think about how to let go of what you can’t control. What your neighbor is doing is out of your control. What is in your control is staying six feet away from them and washing your hands. Focus on that.

Finally, it’s a good time to stock up on compassion. Everyone will have different levels of fear and grief and it manifests in different ways. A coworker got very snippy with me the other day and I thought, That’s not like this person; that’s how they’re dealing with this. I’m seeing their fear and anxiety. So be patient. Think about who someone usually is and not who they seem to be in this moment.

Yes. Sometimes we try not to feel what we’re feeling because we have this image of a “gang of feelings.” If I feel sad and let that in, it’ll never go away. The gang of bad feelings will overrun me. The truth is a feeling that moves through us. We feel it and it goes and then we go to the next feeling. There’s no gang out to get us. It’s absurd to think we shouldn’t feel grief right now. Let yourself feel the grief and keep going.

During the global pandemic, a palpable sense of collective grief has emerged. Grief expert David Kessler says that grief is actually multiple feelings that we must manage. In an interview with HBR, he explains how the classic five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, sadness, acceptance) apply today, and the practical steps we can take to manage the anxiety. Those include balancing bad thoughts with good; focusing on the present; letting go of things you can’t control; and stocking up on compassion. Kessler also talks about a sixth stage of grief: meaning. After acceptance, he says, we will find meaning in the hard-to-fathom events and we will be stronger for it.

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That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief

The more social media we have, the more we think we are connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other

5% to 10% of internet users struggle to control how much time they spend online.

Can't Log Off?

Different from substance addiction, the use of social media and the addiction to it's consumption and interaction, is considered a psychological addiction, much like an addiction to gambling and to porn.Although considered a psychological addiction, brain scans show a similar impairment in regions that those with substance dependence have. Specifically there's a clear degradation in white matter in the regions in charge of emotional processing, attention and decision making.

A Psychological Drug?

The current programming of most social media offers immediate stimulating rewards with very little effort. Therefore the brain rewires itself to account for this overstimulation.If your brain is the one going through this change, you'll begin to crave more of these neurological excitements.

More More More...

Studies have shown that when comparing heavy media users to others, they perform much worse at task switching tests.Heavy multitasking online actually impairs your ability to filter out interference and even decreases your brain's capability for commiting information to long term memory

Multitasking Fallacy

Have you ever felt like your phone vibrated when it actually didn't?You check for a notification because you felt a vibration or heard a ring, but nothing...This is a recent psychological phenomenon caused by our brains' rewiring due to heavy technological use.An itch ends up being interpreted as a buzz from our phones...

Phantom Vibration Syndrome

Since social media triggers the release of dopamine, scientist studied this, and they found that the reward systems in people's brains are much more active when they're talking about their own views.Around 80% of internet usage is about people posting about their own views, not listening, not sharing, but spreading their own ideas.

Your Life. Your Thoughts. Your Internet

While most people might think that relationships are likely going to be affected by all these downsides of social media, it has actually been found that a lot of relationships succeed when they begin online.What's the cause? You may ask...Well it's unclear, but it might be due to people being more open about what they want, since they're behind a screen and can disappear if it doesn't work out. It allows you to test the waters without getting too involved too quickly.Hence if you really know what you want and don't want, online dating could actually be a great tool to find a great match.

Are Relationships Getting Destroyed Or Built?

Social media is a community effort, everyone is an asset.

The effects of social media on your body and on society.

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Further Reading--

Abnormal White Matter Integrity in Adolescents with Internet Addiction Disorder: A Tract-Based Spatial Statistics Study
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030253

Phantom vibrations among undergraduates: Prevalence and associated psychological characteristics
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563212000799

Cognitive control in media multitaskers
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/37/15583.abstract?sid=113b39d8-d0b5-4f46-b2a5-362ee79d0b61

Amygdala Volume and Social Network Size in Humans
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079404/

What is the role of dopamine in reward: hedonic impact, reward
learning, or incentive salience?
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/research&labs/berridge/publications/Berridge&RobinsonBrResRev1998.pdf

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Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:6-7

You can’t be grateful and anxious at the same time. These two are handled by the same part of your brain: amygdala, and can only hold one at a time.

Neuroplasticity

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:2

The brain is like plastic: we can form it and train it any way we want.Everytime we feel, do, or think something, a new pathway is formed. The more we do it, the more often the brain will chose it again. This is called a habit.

If we wake up everyday filling our minds with negative thoughts, the brain will believe it. Not because it’s true, but because the brain is getting influenced by it.Hence if you believe you are going to have a bad day, you will have one.

Renew your mind. You are loved by God, always will be. Weather you are a believer or not.Think about positive things, believe positive things. And they will come. The more you practice positivity, the easier it will be for your brain to chose that way. It’s not a one time activity.

What To Do?

The Lord, Jesus Christ, payed a price for us. He wore a crown of thorns so we can have mental clarity.He loves you, always will. A simple prayer is where you talk about whatever is on your heart. God listens. Always will.

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God blows me away!! Today we're tackling two commonly cited Bible passages and adding a layer of neuroscience to our understanding. The cure was right under our noses.

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Scriptures Referenced:
♡ Romans 12:12
♡ Philippians 4:4-9

Video Referenced:
Neuroplasticity: https://youtu.be/ELpfYCZa87g?si=4blYUwkq1d3RogCO
Transform your mind; mindset shift that's changing my life (how to practically sow patient in suffering): https://youtu.be/q-B2LPBNBS8?si=2J41G4euWAc6lpQk

Biblical Affirmations PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C6KlKmfOQcM4KgTBBScxexpI-Y3MF4wO/view?usp=drivesdk (Shoutout to Ps Trisha and Loi Song Word Alive Church in Cali for this resource! 🥹💌)

Other Resources I highly recommend!!! :
How to fight back the devil: https://youtu.be/jDepLePoTXA?si=shm7jJNdkzLHWok2 
Heal your body with your thoughts: https://youtu.be/2gDr9V_vmFY?si=NfUGYCCOUWyVkiTG
Rewiring the anxious brain: https://youtu.be/zTuX_ShUrw0?si=5qVj3yyhNfadOjIb
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime: https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime?language=en 

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The value of ritual is in its expression, rather than its content.

Life is a succession of often unconnected, disparate encounters, interactions and relationships, managed, more or less, through habituated patterns of conscious and unconscious behaviour.Ritual represented a break from the everyday and an entry into a different realm of ritual space. It gave us the freedom to respond differently in everyday life.

Ritual as a Break

Puett and Gross-Loh argue that ritual is a kind of make believe, a form of play, or an art form that people tend to forget as they grow out of childhood.When children play, they consciously pretend and lose themselves in alternate realities, exploring imagined and different sides of themselves, and finding new and creative ways of being in the world.Confucian ritual was a cultivated form of play or performance art that could have the same effect on adults as play does on children.

Ritual as a playground

Puett and Gros-Loh say: “Our patterned behaviours and rote habits – not rituals – are what really dictate our lives and get in the way of our caring for other people. But through life spent doing as-if rituals that break these patterns, we gain the ability to sense how to be good to those around us.”To deliberately engage in ritual is not to behave like an automaton. On the contrary, it can bring about a recognition of how many of our everyday, unexamined patterns of behaviour truly are the places where we act like automatons.

Habits vs Rituals

If we’re to perform ritual as if it’s true then we will need to do it wholeheartedly, which is to say, with body, speech and thought. When the whole self is engaged in activity, we participate selflessly, because no part of us is left out from the activity. Body, speech and mind are ambivalent agents. They are gateways to both enlightened and deluded activity.To put things simply, we could say that the role of the body, is to bring the hands together or to adopt the posture of meditation; understood as speech it is remain silent; and understood as thought, it is to concentrate.

Practicing Rituals - Body, Speech and Thought

Rituals from a Zen peerspective - Some reflections and ideas 

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Body, Speech and Thought - The Transformative Power of Ritual

You’ve probably already heard sone one telling you to eat healthy, but what is healthy food? To put it simply, the less processed the better. Things like meat, eggs, fruits, are very natural foods and our body knows what to do with them. The more our food gets processed, the worse it is for our bodies. Look at the ingredients, if you can’t recognize half of them, it’s a sign that it’s not fit for consumption.<ul><li>Start eating healthy</li><li>Avoid processed foods</li><li>Stick to natural sources </li></ul>

Proper Nutrition

People talk about staying active, but what does that really mean?To stay active, you need to actively be pursuing fitness goals. Wether it’s to run a slightly faster mile, or hit a new PR in the gym.Having goals and things to strive for motivates you to want to follow through with them. Combine this with consistency In actively chasing those goals and you have all you need.<ul><li>Set fitness goals</li><li>Follow through on your word</li><li>Chase your goals</li></ul>

Daily Exercise

It’s not enough to get 7-8 hours of sleep. you need more than that, your body works best when you have a consistent routine for when you sleep. Try not to deviate more than an hour in between bed times. Set a goal to go to sleep at that time, and do it. Set a goal to wake up at a certain time, and do it. <ul><li>Have a consistent sleep schedule </li><li>Get 8+ hours each night</li></ul>

Your Sleep Schedule

Most people are chronically dehydrated all of the time. Our bodies need half a gallon to a full gallon of water each day. Anything less than that will yield sub optimal results for your health.<ul><li>Half a gallon to a gallon of water a day</li></ul>

Hydration

Humans are very social creatures and we need the attention from other people. Spending too much time alone leads to a variety of mental health issues such as depression and social anxiety.<ul><li>Stay social</li><li>Don’t remain in complete isolation for too long</li></ul>

Social Health

Your health is your greatest asset, we don’t want to lose it. Learn what your body needs and how to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

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The Absolute Basics to Health

First, determine your baseline level by measuring your HRV at rest for 4-6 weeks. Measure it the same way every day, preferably first thing in the morning because that's the most stable part of your day.After this, compare your HRV to your rolling average and to the same day in the previous weeks:<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">If it drops too much, you're in fight-or-flight mode likely due to a lot of stress</li><li class="ql-align-justify">If it rises too much, you're in rest-and-digest mode, but you're experiencing too much recovery due to accumulated stress, overtraining or sickness</li></ul>Either way, if your HRV is outside your baseline levels, you should rest.

How to interpret your HRV at rest stats

A higher HRV is generally a good thing, but there are exceptions that the app picks up on. You want your HRV to gradually increase over time (weeks, months, yea

Is a higher Heart Rate Variability always better?

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