Category Archives: #Healthy Brain

Metaphor Dice

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TEACHER WELL WORN SONG BIRD

Metaphor Dice is a game by Taylor Mali to help students and writers be creative. It is reasonably priced so I bought a set, one for myself and one for my college bound granddaughter. You can play as an individual or as a group. Toss the dice and build a metaphor, or rearrange for something more.

For example:

  • My teacher is a well worn song bird.
  • A song bird is my well worn teacher.

Now write a story.

Ms. Feathers was my seventh-grade music teacher. Her face was well worn by years of students who called her catbird, not behind her back.

Or a poem:

SONGBIRD

A songbird is a teacher

Well worn by its flight

Singing of travels

A musical delight

Taught life lessons during solo flights

Stopping here and there to spend the night

It’s a journey

Never finding the meaning of life

. . . just saying

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It’s a War

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Brain Envy

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The attention span of a gold fish is nine seconds. Currently, our attention spam is eight. Worldwide millions of people suffer with diabetes, mental health problems and obesity. People wait to get sick to eat well. Our bodies are getting bigger and our brains smaller. We are becoming dinosaurs, and we know they are extinct. *

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/managing/mental-health.html

Recently, I watched Lewis Howes PBS television show, The School of Greatness. His interview of Dr. Daniel Amen was a life changer for me. The physiatrist has many Youtube discussions on Brain Envy, authored many books, and is considered an expert (with a sense of humor) in his field.  

It started when he was thirty-seven years of age. He compared his mother’s brain scan with his own. Her brain was healthier. He called it Brain Envy, and attributed this early brain changes to having meningitis as a child, and playing high school football; but wondered. . .  if behavior contributed, could a change in behavior stop or reverse the damage?   His research proved it does and supports his conclusions; diseases that produce inflammation effect blood vessel flow and the brain.

 Dr. Amen has work with the NFL to restore memory for players, been on the New York Best Seller List and view on PBS television.

Lewis Howes ended the interview by asking Dr. Amen for three tips.

  • Love your brain/practice good habits; sleep, diet, exercise.
  • Don’t believe everything you think, rid yourself of negative self-talk.
  • Think positive, ask; What will I do today to help my brain?

. . . just saying

*Taken from Dr. Daniel Amen’s discussions

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