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Brain Gym
Neurons at Work: Business Ideas for the New Age | September 19th 2008
Most of you are familiar with fitness gym. How about gym to enhance brain development? Consider Brain Gym, a worldwide network dedicated to enhancing living and learning through movement. Started by Dr. Paul Dennison and Gail E. Dennison, they prod read more
Poor Mouthing
alisonboston.com | May 19th 2008
An excerpt from a post I wrote in an interesting thread we have going over at Rebecca Fine’s forum: Tonight I manifested one of the targets set during the course. I sang on stage at the WTF jam at Jamboree. This is famous Barcelona jam ses read more
ADHD in 1955
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | April 25th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
First: I've got a big announcement! My new totally free weekly "ADHD Answers Now" telechat starts Tuesday night, April 29. The first one's called: "The Calm after the Storm," and I'll be giving you three quick, effective tricks for helping kids down read more
ADHD Drugs: Do They Really Cause Heart Attacks?
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | April 25th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
Do ADHD stimulant drugs such as Ritalin cause heart attacks? Yes, they can--in a small number of children. Children who have a pre-existing heart condition.Since 1999 thirty kids have died from sudden death attributed to stimulant drugs. And more hav read more
The Advancing Thought…
alisonboston.com | April 25th 2008
My latest from Rebecca Fine’s forum Posted Apr 25, 6:40 PM “I hold the advancing thought…” what do you think this means? Wally follows it up with “..so that the impression of increase is given to all…” ..a read more
Discover The Controversial Anti Aging Mineral That Will Enhance Y…
Libido and Health | April 22nd 2008 by Tonie
What can a controversial anti aging mineral have to do with your mental health? Good question! Over the years there has been numerous research studies linking the mineral lithium with increased brain function. In fact theses studies found th read more
ADHD Trick: Left Up, Right Down, Leg Around, and Nod
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | April 20th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
Try this: Draw a triangle with one hand and two squares with the other hand while tracing a circle on the floor with one leg and nodding your head twice forward, then twice backwards. Switch hands and legs.Helps you pay attention and organize tasks a read more
EFT Emotional Freedom Technique with Brad Yates
alisonboston.com | April 14th 2008
Well, I put a link to this guy in my Free Stuff section, and now I’m so sold in him, I’m telling you about it here! I’ve been doing Brad Yate’s Tap o the Morning for the past 10 days or so and I’m thrilled with the re read more
ADHD or Too Much Chocolate Cake
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | April 13th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
My favorite chocolate cake--not pictured here although this one looks pretty scrumptious--has a whopping 3 cups of sugar, not including the frosting.Just writing about it makes me swoon! (It's the Southern Georgia Chocolate Pound Cake from a 1967 is read more
ADHD: Geniuses, Millionaires, and Presidents
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | April 12th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
We may whine and complain about ADHD. Wish our kids didn't have it. And look for ways to get over it.But, a lot of ADHD folks have been fabulously successful. The most famous is Einstein himself!Then we've got other geniuses like Mozart and Leonardo read more
Why Jeremy Paxman And Brain Gym Irritate Me
Wats-On My Mind | April 11th 2008 by Keith Watson
Adam in his blog yesterday was talking about an interview that I happened to catch earlier this week on Newsnight. I have to say I thought it was April 1st again. The interview with Paul Dennison ‘the Brains behind Brain Gym’ was a bit stra read more
ADHD: Gift or Curse?
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | April 7th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
As an expert in ADHD and someone who reads everything she can get her hands on about ADHD, I often run into the hardline approach. Either we need to "fix" ADHD kids, if not punish them, or we need to celebrate their genius. Give me a break. Isn't it read more
ADHD, Ritalin, and the Feds
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | April 6th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
O.K. so I've been gone for awhile. Sorry. But there's good news and a reason for my absence: ADHD Children Today is up and running. Yahoo! (Wouldn't say the kids in the picture are ADHD, but they're sure multi-tasking!)Now, I hope you'll excuse me f read more
Stereotypes and the Certain Way
alisonboston.com | April 2nd 2008
More of what I wrote today on Rebecca Fine’s forum: Isma Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Your website is great for a first effort! Congratulations! You have created what you set out to do. Excellent. When I saw your reply to Proud Mary, I read more
Freedom, Independence and Choice
alisonboston.com | April 2nd 2008
Another of my entires from Rebecca Fine’s forum. Hi there Lesly Thanks for writing such in depth reply to my response! You say: quote: Now as for what do I want, I want some money to fix my car and gain the feeling of freedom an read more
Appearances and Our State of Mind
alisonboston.com | April 1st 2008
Another of my musings from Rebecca Fine’s forum; this one about how APPEARANCES influence (or not) our state of mind. Taken out of context it’s very incomplete. The idea is - of course - to provoke you to visit the website. And yes, if read more
The Power of Our Words…editing
alisonboston.com | March 30th 2008
As any writer knows, most good writers have an excellent editor. How about editing the words we use before we speak or write them? And take it one step further, how about editing our THOUGHTS. Yeah… I practice something called ‘The Ce read more
Marketing
alisonboston.com | March 29th 2008
Another post from ‘Rebecca Fine’s forum , this one from a thread on the topic of Marketing is relation to the principles of SOGR: Sometimes all it takes is doing what you do with so much passion and power that people can’t help bu read more
May the circle be unbroken…
alisonboston.com | March 23rd 2008
Another post from Rebecca Fine’s forum : Aha! A long post, perhaps will help you receive… LL 20 - Prepare to Receive Disbelief blocks the doorway… Self-rejection trips those who cross the threshold.. “Be consistent in your read more
How Song Lyrics Reinforce Our Vision
alisonboston.com | March 20th 2008
Here’s something I posted in a thread on ‘Rebecca Fine’s forum about song lyrics. I refer to two songs, first the song posted by Tig Wallis, and second, my song ‘Techno Toys Blues’ (available on Mole Records, Listenin read more
The Science of Getting Rich
alisonboston.com | March 19th 2008
Originally posted on Rebecca Fine’s website ‘The Science of Getting Rich’ about the book, The Science of Getting Rich. I think it could easily be renamed “The Science of Enriching Your Life” - for me that has been th read more
Six Impossible Things
alisonboston.com | March 19th 2008
1) That I can lose 15 kilo in the next 10 seconds 2) and open my closet and have a whole new wardrobe that fits my 15 kilo smaller size okay now let’s get ridiculous… 3) that I can shave my hair off every morning and mentally choose a sty read more
Paper Dolls: A Waste of Time or a Brain Booster?
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | March 14th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
Yesterday I was going to blog about what to tell our kids about awful things in the news when they ask (of course, we hope they won't ask): Eliot Spitzer's fall from grace, Britney's 14-year-old sister's pregnancy, Lil' Romeo's USC basketball scholar read more
Maybe No Child Left Behind isn't a Failure After All
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | March 11th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
Don't want to forget to remind you that I've got a spot open for you in tonight's Brain Gym Basics TeleChat. Learn to lower stress, stop procastinating, and stay on track.Was looking for a location for the June, Colorado Springs, Brain Gym class this read more
Dungeons and Dragons on the Living Room Floor
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | March 9th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
Now he plays kiddie computer games with his children. But back in the 80s, Stephen played Dungeons and Dragons, aka D & D, on the floor at our house in Eugene.D & D required rule books (which required proficiency in reading) , little pewter f read more
Whaddya Mean They Can't Find New York?
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | March 8th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
A couple days ago we had a discussion about driving to Fort Worth, Texas from our house in Marble, located in the mountains of Western Colorado.A guy Eric works with suggested going over to Utah and then to Texas.Huh? Drive west to go east. Only airp read more
Lots of Ways for Kids to be Smart but Does It Help
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | March 7th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
All kids are smart. We call it individual differences.Just because Jason doesn’t read very well, doesn’t mean he’s dumb. After all, he’s really good in art. His drawings are exceptional for his age.Susan’s flunking her academic classes but read more
So What do the Finns know about Brain Boosters?
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | March 3rd 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
Finnish teens waste time online in chat rooms and downloading music. They rebel by dying their hair black. No different than the teens I know.So why do Finnish kids score higher in science and math than U.S. kids do? Way higher. The US isn't even in read more
One Laptop per Child: A Brain Booster for Poor Kids
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | March 1st 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
Some days seems it feels like I could just do blog posts all day long. Top of my list are several blogs about the importance of music for brain boosting including Rock Band, and Guitar HeroesAnd I’ve got great info on grading neighborhood schools. read more
"High School Musical" a Brain Booster?
Brain Boosters for Your Kids | February 28th 2008 by MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.
“What do they want for Christmas?” I asked. “Oh anything about “High School Musical,” Stephen replied.“High School what? They’re just little girls. Cari’s only in 2nd grade.”“Hey Mom, get with it. 'High School Musical' is the thin read more
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