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Use Your Mind to Optimize Healing

Use Your Mind to Optimize Healing. It all starts with a thought…. Glen Glenda Christiaens, PhD, RN, AHN-BC. Move it. Improved thinking skills Successful aging Decreased risk of Dementia Alzheimer’s Disease Stroke Decreased Depression Anxiety. “I am Happy” “I am Healthy”

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Use Your Mind to Optimize Healing

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  1. Use Your Mind to Optimize Healing It all starts with a thought… Glen Glenda Christiaens, PhD, RN, AHN-BC

  2. Move it • Improved thinking skills • Successful aging • Decreased risk of • Dementia • Alzheimer’s Disease • Stroke • Decreased • Depression • Anxiety

  3. “I am Happy” “I am Healthy” “I am Beautiful”

  4. Stress Begins with a Thought Negative thoughts Negative emotions Stress Response

  5. “I don’t need to think that.” “Cancel, Cancel”

  6. Healing Begins with a Thought

  7. Mental Rehearsal Stimulates the Same Part of the Brain as Physical Rehearsal

  8. Motor Cortex Mental rehearsal activates the same motor circuits as actual rehearsal

  9. Imagination Can Change Your Mind

  10. College Professors

  11. Soccer Hooligans

  12. Use Your Mind to Optimize Healing Movement “I don’t need to think that” Relaxation “Cancel, cancel” Positive Affirmations Imagination Mental Rehearsal

  13. Book List Begley, Sharon (2007) Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves. Ballantine Books, New York. Iacoboni, Marco (2008). Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York. Medina, John (2008). Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. Pear Press, Seattle www. GlendatheGoodNurse.com

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