Philippa Perry Quotes
Top 17 wise famous quotes and sayings by Philippa Perry
Philippa Perry Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Philippa Perry on Wise Famous Quotes.
After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.
Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.
If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.
If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.
Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.
Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.
The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract.
If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.
It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.
Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.
If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.
People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.
In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.