Posts Tagged ‘Resiliency’
Freeze-Framer for Golf: emotional management for peak performance
Just came back from a holiday party where I met some avid golfers who thought the concept of managing emotions through breathing, visualization and technology sounded like a bit far out. First I tried to paraphrase the quote “Effective management of the emotions in your golf game will not only lower your scores, but is guaranteed…
Read More“The missing heart of positive psychology†for mental and emotional fitness
Since the beginning of the SharpBrains blog, we have enjoyed frequent, insightful and nice comments by “Eleanor”. One day we decided to track her back and see what work she was involved with, and we enjoyed learning about what she does in the UK. Therefore, we asked her to write a guest entry here to…
Read MoreStudent Achievement Gap, Stress, and Self-Regulation
Jonah Lehrer dissects and builds on a New York Times article on the education Achievement gap. Quotes from Jonah’s post: “most of the research suggests that the “achievement gap” has real neurological roots, which are caused by distinct home environments: Hart and Risley showed that language exposure in early childhood correlated strongly with I.Q. and academic…
Read MoreEmwave and Emotional self-regulation
In the post Trader Peak Performance and biofeedback programs we showed the Heart Rate Variability patterns correlated with levels of a) anxiety or b) Peak Performance, “The Zone”. Biofeedback supports our emotional self-regulation: we can visually track what is going on inside us and train ourselves to manage our emotional state. On the left you…
Read MoreBlog Carnivals, Thanksgiving and Mission Accomplishing
Big party today. Carnivals everywhere. Caroline and I admit we are quite biased. We see the world through our own lenses. Which, these days, means a lot of passion for the science-based Brain Fitness Revolution. We have been trying hard to combine fun brain teasers with serious posts on how brain research is starting to…
Read More“Everyone a Changemaker”, Ashoka and Google
What an event yesterday night. My wife and I were fortunate to visit the Google Campus and attend the Sixth Annual North American Fellowship Induction Program of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a social venture fund where we have been involved for a number of years, and thanks to which (thanks Michele!) my wife and…
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