Science Shows Repeated Thoughts Are Powerful Tools to Improve Your Brain by Debbie Hampton

 How can your competent? doctor use this to ensure your brain recovery? Oh, by incompetently DOING NOTHING?

Science Shows Repeated Thoughts Are Powerful Tools to Improve Your Brain

This Is How Silence and Rest Support Neuroplasticity to Make Your Brain Better by Debbie Hampton

 Does your competent? doctor  have ANY EXACT CLUE HOW TO MAKE NEUPLASTICITY REPEATABLE ON DEMAND? I thought not, so fuckingly incompetent then, and you're still paying them? Why?

This Is How Silence and Rest Support Neuroplasticity to Make Your Brain Better

Breakthrough Shows Mental Strength’s Location in the Brain (and how to grow it) by Debbie Hampton

 

 You absolutely need this because your incompetent? doctor doesn't have 100% recovery protocols! Sorry about repeating the post but you need your doctor to assure you that this section of the brain is working properly

Breakthrough Shows Mental Strength’s Location in the Brain (and how to grow it)

The New Food Pyramid Is Still Risky for Brain Health by Debbie Hampton

 Ask your competent? doctor for EXACT DIET PROTOCOLS! None of this MIND or Mediterranean diet guidelines; they have NO specifics! You need SPECIFICS!

The New Food Pyramid Is Still Risky for Brain Health

Breakthrough Shows Mental Strength’s Location in the Brain (and how to grow it) by Debbie Hampton

 You absolutely need this because your incompetent? doctor doesn't have 100% recovery protocols!

Breakthrough Shows Mental Strength’s Location in the Brain (and how to grow it)

Exercise Is Mind Medicine from Debbie Hampton

 Hopefully your competent? doctor gets you recovered enough physically so you can sharpen your mind from this exercise. With your 5 lost years of brain cognition due to your stroke, you need this! Oh, YOU DON'T HAVE A COMPETENT DOCTOR, DO YOU?

Exercise Is Mind Medicine

This Is the Strong Impact Your Gut Has on Dementia Risk from Debbie Hampton

 I bet you're not getting good stuff like this from your competent? doctor!

This Is the Strong Impact Your Gut Has on Dementia Risk from Debbie Hampton

Unlock the Awesome Brain Benefits of Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) by Debbie Hampton

It is your doctor's responsibility to have EXACT 100% RECOVERY  PROTOCOLS FOR YOU so you don't have massive anxiety about your recovery. They don't exist yet so ask your competent? doctor EXACTLY  what they are doing to GET THERE!

Post stroke anxiety(20% chance). Your doctor is responsible for preventing this. Or your incompetent? doctor could suggest this for your anxiety.

 Unlock the Awesome Brain Benefits of Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) by Debbie Hampton

This Is The Powerful Impact Food Has On Your Brain Health by Debbie Hampton

 You'll want your competent? doctor to have the nutritionist and dietician create diet protocols with this in mind, along with all these other needs!

For dementia prevention; for cognitive improvement; for cholesterol reduction; for plaque removal; for Parkinsons prevention; for inflammation reduction; etc.

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This Is The Powerful Impact Food Has On Your Brain Health by Debbie Hampton

A couple important paragraphs here:

The study showed that people with a healthy balanced diet had better brain health, cognitive function and mental health than others. We compared the balanced diet to three other diet groups — low-carb (18%), vegetarian (6%) and high protein/low fibre (19%). We found that people who ate a more balanced diet had better:

1. fluid intelligence (the ability to solve new problems),
2. processing speed, memory and
3. executive functions (a set of mental skills that include flexible thinking and self-control)

than the other diets. This also corresponded to better brain health — with higher grey matter volumes (the outermost layer of the brain) and better structured neurons (brain cells), which are key markers of brain health.

This Is The Powerful Impact Food Has On Your Brain Health by Debbie Hampton

 And I bet your doctor still has incompetently not had the dietician and nutritionist create diet protocols for all these needs!

For dementia prevention; for cognitive improvement; for cholesterol reduction; for plaque removal; for Parkinsons prevention; for inflammation reduction; etc.

This Is The Powerful Impact Food Has On Your Brain Health by Debbie Hampton

From there: Sounds like survivors need this!

We found that people who ate a more balanced diet had better:

1. fluid intelligence (the ability to solve new problems),
2. processing speed, memory and
3. executive functions (a set of mental skills that include flexible thinking and self-control)

Here’s How You Can Add More Flavor and Brain Health Benefits to Your Diet with Common Spices by Debbie Hampton

If your doctor has nothing on this maybe you want to ask when they will become competent in stroke rehab. Don't do anything with this until your doctor approves, which will be never. Good luck. 

Here’s How You Can Add More Flavor and Brain Health Benefits to Your Diet with Common Spices

The Optimism Bias

 I'm a complete optimist.  The glass is not half full, it is completely full; half water, half air.  Life is great even with my now differently abled body.

In the book 'The Optimism Bias' is the line; Optimism biases human and non human thought. It takes rational reasoning hostage, directing our expectations toward a better outcome without sufficient evidence to support such a conclusion. 

Debbie Hampton   talks about this slightly differently;

In his book Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D., posits that your brain has built-in natural antidepressant tendencies which you can access and cultivate. They can be harnessed to keep a brain from becoming depressed, prevent relapse, or uncover more happiness in life. Understanding how depression works in your brain and how your bad habits contribute to keeping you stuck in a negative brain loop is essential to overcoming depression naturally.

According to Goldstein, you have five built-in antidepressants.

Mindfulness

Self-Compassion

Purpose

Play

Mastery

 

 

 

 

Negative Thinking Speeds Up Brain Decline and Raises Dementia Risk by Debbie Hampton

How the hell do you accomplish this post stroke when your doctor knows nothing and does nothing to get you 100% recovered?

Negative Thinking Speeds Up Brain Decline and Raises Dementia Risk by Debbie Hampton

Understanding Neuroplasticity Allows You to Set the Right Conditions to Prime Your Brain to Learn by Debbie Hampton

 If all your doctor does is tell you you can use neuroplasticity to recover, then you have a doctor that is useless. You need to know EXACTLY how neuroplasticity occurs. What causes a neuron to drop its' current function and take on a neighboring neurons' function? If your doctor can't explain that you don't have a functioning stroke doctor!

RUN AWAY!

Understanding Neuroplasticity Allows You to Set the Right Conditions to Prime Your Brain to Learn by Debbie Hampton

Research Says Depression Is Probably Not Caused by a Chemical Imbalance in the Brain by Debbie Hampton

 With your excellent chances of depression post stroke, what is your doctor's idea?

Solve the primary problem of 100% recovery and you don't have to work on the secondary problem of depression.

• 33% survivor depression (28 posts to September 2016)

Research Says Depression Is Probably Not Caused by a Chemical Imbalance in the Brain

Taking Control of Your Mind, Puts You In Contol of Your Life by Debbie Hampton

For all the shit I've gone thru, my mind is what keeps me sane and going. I refuse to ruminate on 'what-ifs' and just look forward to all the fun I'm going to have. Just came back from a week in Paris, next trip is a couple of weeks in Ecuador.

Right now heading out for my daily walk in 5 new inches of snow in -16 windchils.

Life is great.

 Taking Control of Your Mind, Puts You In Contol of Your Life by Debbie Hampton

The First Necessary Step to Improve Your Life is to Learn to Challenge Your Damaging Cognitive Distortions from Debbie Hampton

I just want to focus on two lines from there:

I think all human beings have one fundamental goal in common. We all want to find some level of happiness, contentment, and peace.

In the book: '8 mindful steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path' there is this point. 'Desire causes suffering'; page 52.

You'll have to figure out the conundrum yourself.

The First Necessary Step to Improve Your Life is to Learn to Challenge Your Damaging Cognitive Distortions from Debbie Hampton

The New Fitness, Brain, and Memory Health Information You Need to Know About Your Daily Step Count from Debbie Hampton

You'l want to read this, it's more detailed than I've posted on. 

My numbers for steps.

10,000 Steps A Day? How Many You Really Need To Boost Longevity - 4,400

This one suggests 8900 steps a day:

Can Exercise Protect Against Alzheimer's?

 

Exactly How Many Steps You Need to Take a Day to Not Gain Weight - 15,000

The latest here:

The New Fitness, Brain, and Memory Health Information You Need to Know About Your Daily Step Count from Debbie Hampton

Slow Breathing Is the Fastest Way To Calm Your Brain and Body by Debbie Hampton

With your massive amount of stress and anxiety because your doctor knows nothing and has nothing to get you 100% recovered, s/he should as least give you these breathing tips.  And if they are any good at all they would have you doing this by nostril breathing as documented in 'Breath' by James Nestor.

 

Slow Breathing Is the Fastest Way To Calm Your Brain and Body by Debbie Hampton

 

4 Steps to Build a More Resilient Brain by Debbie Hampton

With your massive amount of stress and anxiety because your doctor knows nothing and has nothing to get you 100% recovered, s/he should as least give you these resilience tips.

A researcher asked me where my resilience came from a few years ago. I had no answer but this probably explains it.

 

4 Steps to Build a More Resilient Brain by Debbie Hampton