Brain change is a very real thing. I came from a bad upbringing didn't get many qualifications, never read a book, and had to have a side assistant teachers to assist me in every lesson, got diagnosed as autistic and add. This planted wrong programs in my brain and I believed it because I was only 8 years old. I was scared and felt extremely suicidal as everyone else seemed to have it easier. This made me not want to go out places and I decided to sit in doors playing video games to escape the world and because of this I somehow came across brain plasticity, this planted a new seed of hope and I decided to believe in it, because if people can change the size of their muscles, why cant they learn new skills and change other things too?.. I took a fitness course and the first week I did pretty bad because I was still stuck in that school mindset and the teachers said I should leave because I am not learning anything. This scared me because I needed to do something with my future so I put in the effort and within a few months I was literally flying through my assignments as if I had done it my whole life, students was even asking me for help and the teachers was quite shocked (I was around 23 when I finished so I wasnt exactly a child).. I managed to come out with the second best grades in my group from people who was older and more experiences than me.. I am now above average intelligence despite how disgustingly bad I did at school. Brain plasticity is real guys.
This is amazing, that's a lot of heart to push through like this. I hope you're able to continue on with all life's obstacles in this same, adaptive to the situation, fashion.
This is not just for children--the exercises work for ALL ages! My 73-year-old father is the oldest student in the Arrowsmith program and is having incredible results! These exercises need to be part of general education at all age levels. Our brains can change and grow throughout our entire lives. There is no "too old"!!
My dad died of Alzheimer's disease. In my late fifties, I noticed I was slowing down in my memory skills. I decided since there is such a connection between what the hands do and what the brain does, to work with my hands as much as I could so I went back to knitting. I was difficult for me at first. But as things got easier, I challenged myself with things which I found hard, and when that became easier, to find something more. I also learned every style of knitting so as to know how to knit each forwards and backwards. And when I knit I change my styles and work to be sure the knitting all looks the same. I have far less difficulty with forgetting anything now. My memory is better now at 66 than at 58 when I started this. Now I Europe, I have learned that they teach knitting in schools to both boys and girls. Their test scores exceed those of Americans, even those who are of the same heritage. So there is something to this. Knitting works well with attainment and advancement of mathematical understanding and also with music. Though I did not learn piano as a child, I did learn how to play by chord. Since my avid knitting, I sound very good. So there is something going on here. Perhaps we are all our own puzzle and we can create the tools to help ourselves. In the meanwhile, I have made many useful things, so I have an outlet for my creativity. One cannot put a premium on what being happy does for one's mind. But I am sure that just as children find success and become more excited about learning because they can master a hand-eye skill, so it is with adults who fear they are becoming by the day, more child-like. You can do something about it. Many find exercise is the key for them. The thing is do not give up. Perhaps it is learning to cook differently, again, don't give up. The more things you can add into your repertoire, the less bored your brain is and the more you have relish for life. But I also know this, that nutrition is key also to how we feel and how we think as well as sleeping well and consistently. Our diet, if we are not eating meat, is able to create in our gut, serotonin which is shared with the brain. Many of us have had so many antibiotics, the microbes to support this are dead. We have to rebuild this flora inside ourselves and eat what is easiest to digest especially as we age, plants. Meats do not digest well, figure into stroke and heart disease, diabetes, cancer and arthritis, including asthma. What a price we pay to be addicted to our tastebuds and not willing to try new things. I've gone vegan and I will not look back. Lost weight and feel so much better. We need to continue to learn throughout our lives. And we are the ones who need to go after it. Trying to keep up after a spouse who won't do anything for himself is no fun. I have to get out for a few hours to be able to remember that I am not him and don't want to be. Negativity kills just as much as a loaded gun. It kills the soul. Life is too short, we have to find ways to be happy even if the spouse is sappy. Another reason I knit, I can go loads of other places inside my head even if I can't with my feet.
Wow. Thank you for sharing your story. Sometimes I persevere through difficult tasks. Sometimes I just find the easy way. Think I'll take up knitting. Thank you 😊💕💕💕
My mother turned 91 and knitted from a very young age and still do. For her age, her memory is very good, better than mine at 66! She always tries to be positive, in spite of previous cancers and other difficulties. She is in an old age facility, but still reaches out to others. She also reads a lot.
courag1 “we are all our own puzzle and we can create the tools to help ourselves.” ✨✨✨ Thanks for sharing. And your knitting experience had inspired me & reminded me “to continue learning new things and not give up”🌸🌸🌸
Magnificent! I was a natural speed reader from the first time I learned HOW to read. My "wonderful" teachers told me that I had to say each word while moving my lips if I were to be able to absorb what I was reading. They totally ruined my ability to read until my mid-40s when I returned to college to finish my bachelor's degree. Little did I know I would wind up with a PhD in computer science. The faster I read, the more I comprehended. Now retired, I read 3 or 4 books at a time. Ahhh...
What an awesome story! Thank God you went back to school! I shutter to think of the number of lives lived far below potential because teachers don’t know that they don’t know. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I read 3 or 4 books at a time. My husband says how can you do that? I say I enjoy the change and it helps me to enjoy the different styles of writing more.
@@loiswhite1834 Shudder is a good word for it. An appalling number of prison inmates have been found to home kind of previously unrecognized learning disability.
Neuroplasticity is so exciting. And it's good news for me, because my short-term memory and ability to focus has greatly diminished after years of stress and depression.
yeah, amazing that it's possible to improve/bring back cognitive abilities after years of depression and stress or anxiety. prescriptions meds can't quite do it though. books are way better. and regular practice.
Hi Stefan .There is hope! I was diagnosed with ptsd and clinical depression. I could not remember anything! I had massive memory gaps. I could not focus. If I read anything, it would not stay put..I could not hold on to any new information or retrieve old info. I read everthing I could ( over and over ) about how stress affects the brain. The amygdala (alarm system in the brain) is on full alert and your neocortex shuts down and along with it, all your higher order cognitive skills. Your hippocampus (where some memories are processed) shrinks and your memory is seriously affected. I began to practise mindfulness and eventually I was able to alter my stress response. It was a fairly long process but now my memory is sharp and I can retain and use new information. I am no longer depressed and I changed by befriending my brain and learning to turn off the stress response! A very simple basic life changing exercise.. breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Breathe slower on the exhale. This deactivates the stress response. Once out of stress mode, your body and brain can begin to heal. Do it as many times as u can throughout the day ..set little reminders. Just a couple of these breaths regularly. The hippocampus can regrow neurons. You can get your short term memory back!! Good luck.
sheraine zeffrienne Thank you Sheraine. I've led a stressful life most of my life. Though I loved to read, I had difficulty remembering whatever I just read. I would (and still do) forget the names of people I've known for years. I would just go completely blank. I would forget pin #'s I had used many times. I knew something wasn't "right", but I never sought help. I am now convinced that the stress is the reason my brain has never functioned properly. Like you, I'm reading and listening to anything that has to do with how to control and manage stress. Thanks for your comment. I now feel like there's hope.
What a miracle! She needs to reach the many special education teachers with her message as possible!
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I think what this testimony teaches us is that, not only our brain can change, but also us. We can be the better versions of ourselves in all possible ways.
So interesting! I realize the neuroplasticity of my brain when I was in college and an excellent teacher realized I had dyslexic tendencies. She took me to the speech coach who determine which letters I automatically switched around and then taught me how to correct the mistake before it happened. Took a few years before the problems vanished, but eventually my brain corrected itself.
I've read "The Man with the Shattered World" at least three times, maybe more. He was so severely disabled it exhausted him to write a single sentence and reading never failed to give him a headache, but he persevered over many years to piece together an entire book about cognitive disability as perceived from the inside. He describes the moment of horror waking up in the hospital realizing that the newspaper with the foreign alphabet he couldn't read was actually his own language.
Having been one of the founding members of Eaton Arrowsmith School and Eaton Cognitive Improvement Centre in Vancouver, BC, I have seen Barbara's work, the Arrowsmith Program, change hundreds of lives. It's definitely not easy to change the brain, but with sustained, specific practice it is very much possible. Barbara is speaking at Neuroplasticity and Education: Strengthening the Connection in Vancouver on October 25th if any of you are interested. Should be a great day.
I could not understand the complexity of my texts in college so in order to get meaning from the texts I had to take notes as I was reading, highlight my notes, and keep reviewing my notes. Then eventually I was able to get meaning from text and complete all my classes for my degree. I think these strategies changed my brain because I did not give up.
Well Said. Never take an “experts” opinion as fact. Especially when it comes to what you are capable of or not capable of base on their training or opinion. I was diagnosed with an incurable disease and told I would never improve and be on prescription drugs for the rest of my life. The day I stopped listening to my Doctor, I started to get well. I was taking eight prescription drugs I was told I would be on for life. I have dropped seven of these drugs and plan on being off all of them in time. You are your own best advocate. There is always a better way to solve a problem. Although it may require you to take an unconventional route to achieve your goal.
FANTASTIC!!!!! I suffered a cerebral haemorrhage in my teens. I couldn't do anything, tell a buss schedule, operate a laundry machine and so on. And my doctors just like she said tried to prepare me for a life going around and avoiding my difficulties. And after 7 or 8 years I got fed up with my situation and started progress towards my problems. It took a while and since then 20 years later I have drastically change my life in a way regular treatment would have me living in a special home. Important and well spoken talk. thank you Barbara.
My elementary and middle school years were a struggle for me but for me everything changed my 9th grade year, I learned how to play chess and it was fun to me; the result, without me feeling like I was working harder or doing anything different, my grades went up and for the first time in my life I made the honor role. Chess changed something in my brain.
She just touches the surface of her accomplishments in this video. She works with kids who need to reconnect various parts of their brains that have, for whatever reason, failed to connect naturally. The methods she uses for hyperactive kids with very short attention spans was the most impressive I've ever read. Please look up her institute and whatever youtube vids of her therapies if you know someone who is struggling.
The problems she had were more worse than my current problems yet she lives happier than me. I wanna change my brain too and now I just need to take the right bath. Thanks for this wonderful presentation.
"Every time we learn something new, our brain changes. With focused effort, we can intentionally rewire our brains to overcome learning challenges and reach new heights of achievement." - Barbara Arrowsmith Young
We shared the same childhood dysfunctions, we both had fathers that changed our way of thinking - our only difference she knew her diagnosis, I only learnt of mine 2 years ago and I am now 60. This woman has so inspired me - my father taught me all those games she herself used, I still do them to this day and I am sure that is why I made it thus far. This talk brought me the validation of me. I cannot thank you enough xx
Thank you this gives me even more hope for my son who was born prematurely. It affected his brain and at one point we’re told only one side of his brain was functioning turns out it was too swollen to get a good read. We were also suggested to pull his life support because he wouldn’t have quality of life. Jump almost 19 years later this young man who went from delays in walking multiple challenges including hearing loss in one ear and sensory integration and tons of therapy (no drugs we didn’t want to mix with the brain chemistry) ended up running track, playing water polo, graduating from high school and now will be going to college. His high school counselor wanted to graduate him out in special Ed classes but he wanted the chance to go to college like everyone else. He worked hard to graduate in regular classes with only some sped provisions. He still has short term memory loss, can’t tell time on a clock and doesn’t drive yet (big potential to get lost) but one day will. I always told him he could do anything he wants in life but now I think that might have been abstract for him. Thank you again you have encouraged this mom to help him succeed!
What a humbling, magnificent talk. The part about reading philosophy is especially impressive. I have a BA in Philosophy with High Honors, and I've never read and understood 100 pages of philosophy in a row, whether by one or many philosophers. Understanding two pages in a row was a real achievement for me. Philosophy's often tough sledding, even for the practiced eye. It seems to me Ms. Arrowsmith-Young had a brilliant mind before she overcame her blockage, because she figured out how to change her brain while she was still in the strange foggy world of her youth. And obviously her brilliance has shone more and more brightly since. The implications of brain plasticity for education are unfathomable. I taught for 30 years and how I wish I'd know about this when I was teaching. We have to pursue it and find out how we can literally help students mold their brains for the better. There must be so much more to her story. I'm anxious to read her book.
Yours is the most insightful comment here, I think. To look at the situation and realize what genius she must have had in there, somewhere somehow. To be able to find her way out from inside the haze and endless confusion. What she's done is breathtaking. Thank you for your thoughtful commentary.
This is definitely a life lesson. This is one of the people that makes the rest of the people want to live, and thrive and learn, and be better. She gives inspiration and transmits feeling of sadness, hope and desire, that few people achieve. She is a real hero and a genius, has she given other conferences? What is the tittle of her book? I loved this TEDx talk very much. Congratulations, Ms. Barbara Arrowsmith-Young.
My Mom was very physically disabled and had Alzheimer's at 80. A friend offered help as a caregiver but only spoke Spanish. To my astonishment I was able to teach her enough vocabulary for basic communication even though she often didn't remember who I was. It puzzled me for the longest time. This makes sense. Thank you.
Brilliant Barbara! My son attends your school and in only two months of doing the Arrowsmith work, we have noticed positive changes in his self-esteem, happiness and spelling! Taking him away from the constant barrage of negativity in the public school system was the best thing we have ever done! He was in the special ed class for kids with learning disabilities but was blamed on a daily basis for not being able to learn! How much frustration can the students bear before a change is made? Thx
I’m recovering from a stroke and I’m slowly recovering but I am recovering and it’s because of people like this so thank you for sharing your story and experience x
She is the reason I always strive to let everyone I worked with know they can and they matter, they just needed to embrace the inability to find their greatest ability, Barbara here is a prime example of that. Why limit learning and moving forward because of one part of us that is different or complicated. Kudos and blessings to all who don't give up and may we all move forward.
Thank you so much for sharing, Barbara. I learned about your history in the book "The brain than changes itself" by Norman Doige. Your testimony has been inspiring to me and to my students. We can built the person we want to be. It requires work, but it is feasible.
Thank you Barbara I work with children and adults as a Speech and Language Therapist and believe fundamentally in the power of this process. I too see incredible changes in the clients I see despite the considerable impairments they experience. I am invigorated by your experiences. Thank you so much
Easily the best TedxTalk I've ever seen. I've been raising awareness of brain plasticity ever since I read the book, "The Brain That Changes Itself" by Dr. Norman Doidge. Her book also needs to be read. This is all very enlightening and empowering material.
I agree with you! My daughter has a learning disability of lack of working memory and at 7 we started working with her on exercising her brain. She just turned 9 last month and we continue to work on this exercises. I can only hope that with time she will be a better learner for all the hard work we put into this exercises. It's very hopefully news to me that her brain can be rewired and not just to teach her coping skills (that what all schools recommend and argue for)
A great talk, thank you. Many so-called 'special needs ' children today suffer from the stigma and humiliation of being unable to undertake basic tasks through a lack of cognitive stretch. Many average children however also find maths and clocks challenging. I would like to have been given even one example of the exercises she devised - did she have help in devising them? In other words, did she understand the process by which she could repair her brain or did she simply rote learn how to read a clock? Did she know that conquering one challenge would have exponential benefits in other cognitive challenges? There is a lot more to be known and understood about her recovery process.
Having a channel about overcoming "disability" I can completely relate to dealing with people that "just deal with it" and give up. It's so sad. I hope to be able to have a positive influence in their life. This video was very encouraging to me.
Thanking God for this great video. This comment on a slightly different tack, but recently decreased to nil over a period of three weeks, the strong dose of antidepressants I had been on. Almost immediately my memory, which had got so bad that I thought at 83 years old, I was heading into Alzheimer's, starting to come back as did my concentration and am now using Google and RUclips on my phone as my former secretarial skills are back as good as ever thank God. Not suggesting that all reading this does the same but feel I should share in the hope that others may be able to successfully to the same. Please God may this information spread and eventually be used in many various sections of society to the great betterment of so very many. Well done Barbara, may God bless you for sharing all this wonderful news on this most welcome and informative video. Greetings from Ireland.
the chances youll see this reply are low since you asked more than 4 years ago. though in case you do there is book "the brain that changes itself" in the book her case is taken up in much more detail and talk about the exercises she went through. I am not sure that it is the exact same person but the problems they had were similar. since the her left hemisphere was working her memory became amazing she excelled at subjects such as history and used this to her advantage. all of her mental exercises were based on memory and memorizing things rather than understanding. where as the physical ones were based on doing simple things such as building puzzles using her left hand or picking things up an placing them back down. I hope this is helpful
Matej Simko I also been waiting for this comment for four years. I saw the first comment when in high school (senior). So four years ago. I already graduated high school and college. Have a beautiful girl two years old and a wife. Move to LA and living the life. Thanks thoe
Love to her your story of life! I have just begin training my brain with DNRS and after only two months I already can Do things I couldent before!!! I am changing my brain! It can be done!
omg, i did the same thing. i wanted to learn how to read maps and i wanted to understand the world.. and so.. i decided to study geography... and now its easy for me.I wanted to change my brain, my struggle, and my life. My LD has been my motivation for change :') I am soo glad she talked about this!
Thank you for sharing this! I just wish you had shared more about the specific exercises that helped you overcome your obstacle/gift! I have a student who could be you and I have thought and thought about ways to help her learn without success. I know there is an answer - especially now! Thank you again!
Sharing such stories is not only a relieving reflection but also an improvement of mankind. Thank you so much for sharing your personal journey with us, Dr. K. Lambert. Thank you TEDx.
A movie should absolutely be made about her life. Not only is her story very inspiring and educational about the way our brains work and how we can overcome mental difficulties, I'm literally tearing up just from her describing being able to read for the first time 😢
Ez a hölgy minden tiszteletet megérdemel. Kívánom neki és magunknak, hogy a kognitív gyakorlatokat emeljék be az oktatásba. Hadd legyen a világon minél több olyan gyerek, aki boldogan jár iskolába és élvezi a tanulást! Köszönet Barbara kitartó munkájáért!
We are our own worse enemy. I'd been being haunted by victim mode for a long long time and I didn't notice it. By self-teaching myself psychology and English(information quality and transparency are much better) I learn the phrase "victim mode". By defining victim mode(blaming others, complaining, stay silent without reacting, don't fight for our own rights, quit taking the wheel of your fate, being distant etc. etc.) helps me spot where I am and stay on the direction I of my goal. I am no longer a danger to myself. I am a living proof of human brain plasticity. 06:32 :Attitude learned from her farther:if there's a problem and there's no solution you go out and create a solution. before you can solve the problem you have to identify it's nature. Great parenting!!! Thanks for the speech.
This is the most powerful thing I've heard in a very long time. I am 77 years old and have been dealing with ADD and depression and anxiety all my life. I've always felt like a victim but I've recently realized that I have the ability to control my life by teaching myself, my brain and build and create my life. It is incredible.
This must be what I have experienced throughout my life. I could not read until I was 9-years-old (my peers were reading by the time they were 7). I was fortunate enough to receive help from resource teachers from grade 2 to grade 8, but I continued to struggle in school and received a lot of 60% marks in high school, which led to me not being accepted into university. I decided to return to school many years later and completed my undergraduate degree with a B average, which was an improvement from high school. After that I began my master's degree, which I am more than halfway through, and I am achieving straight A's. At this point, school is easy; I do not struggle to understand what I am reading any longer. Now my son is struggling with school and I worry a bit about when he goes into high school, but I use myself as an example of how perseverance pays off to encourage him to continue trying. I also use my story to encourage other parents to never give up on a child who is struggling.
I agree.. It was a bit disappointing that she didn't provide a single example of a cognitive exercise that she used to overcome her mental blockages. That's the information I most wanted to hear.
"She isolated herself and began toiling to the point of exhaustion, week after week -- with only brief breaks for sleep -- at mental exercises she had designed, with no guarantee they would lead anywhere. Instead of working around the problem, she exercised her most weakened function -- relating symbols -- progressively. One exercise involved reading hundreds of cards with clock faces showing different times on the front. She had Joshua Cohen write the correct time on the back. The cards were shuffled so she couldn't memorize the answers. She turned up a card, attempted to determine the time, checked the answer, then moved on to the next card, as fast as she could. She started with two-handed clocks, making numerous mistakes. When she couldn't get the time right, she'd spend hours with a mechanical clock, turning it slowly, to try and understand why, at 2:45, the hour hand was three-quarters of the way towards the three. At some point, she started to get the answers right, so she began adding hands for seconds and sixtieths of a second. At the end of many exhausting weeks, not only could she read clocks faster than normal people, but she noticed improvements with her other difficulties relating symbols. She began for the first time to grasp grammar, math, and logic, and most importantly, what people were saying as they said it. She left lag time behind. "
Found out about this woman through Norman Doidge book. An incredible case i must say. I personally can imagine how much strength it takes to start off such kind of journey and how tiring and depressing it can be. Though my experience is linked with psychology and caused traumas. Neuroplasticity and psychotherapy help a lot in understanding how your brain functions and that in some situations when you thought you were just unable to behave differently it turns out you are capable of shaping your brain the way it should be. You can change the way you think, behave and process things. Neuroscience proves that.
For those needing more information, she has written a book 'The Women Who Changed Her Brain'. I haven't read it yet so unable to comment, but available new or 2nd hand depending on your preference
I've read it and it is pretty great. Easy read. Lots of examples including pictures of some of her math work. Also, Howard Eaton, who runs the Eaton Arrowsmith Schools, wrote Brain School, discussing his journey to Arrowsmith after testing/re-testing kids who went through the program (& was confused by the results he was seeing.) I met him 10 years ago at a speaking engagement. My own son is working through the Symbol Relations portion of the program now...and we are seeing movement where we've never seen any before. Takes time.
this woman is an incredible person, and teacher! everything she.talked about, gives millions of others, hope, a chance, a different way of thinking, and... change their brain. with things I am struggling with, I know, I can change my brain! by doing so, my life can be.more relaxed, less anxiety, less confusion and.more enlightened. less hurt, more joy. I loved this lecture.
I am so grateful that we have discovered the phenomena of neuroplasticity in neuroscience! Our brains are amazing. This is a valuable tool for teachers to help students with learning disabilities. Want a new skill? Exercise those mental muscles!
Brain change is a very real thing. I came from a bad upbringing didn't get many qualifications, never read a book, and had to have a side assistant teachers to assist me in every lesson, got diagnosed as autistic and add. This planted wrong programs in my brain and I believed it because I was only 8 years old. I was scared and felt extremely suicidal as everyone else seemed to have it easier. This made me not want to go out places and I decided to sit in doors playing video games to escape the world and because of this I somehow came across brain plasticity, this planted a new seed of hope and I decided to believe in it, because if people can change the size of their muscles, why cant they learn new skills and change other things too?.. I took a fitness course and the first week I did pretty bad because I was still stuck in that school mindset and the teachers said I should leave because I am not learning anything. This scared me because I needed to do something with my future so I put in the effort and within a few months I was literally flying through my assignments as if I had done it my whole life, students was even asking me for help and the teachers was quite shocked (I was around 23 when I finished so I wasnt exactly a child).. I managed to come out with the second best grades in my group from people who was older and more experiences than me.. I am now above average intelligence despite how disgustingly bad I did at school. Brain plasticity is real guys.
T. Vann: Keep listening to your own heart and wisdom.👍🏾
This is amazing, that's a lot of heart to push through like this. I hope you're able to continue on with all life's obstacles in this same, adaptive to the situation, fashion.
This is amazing!
My hats off to you ! What an amazing testimony . What kind of fitness/program did you complete to finally start making progress?
Thank you for sharing your story. It inspired me. 🫶🏻
she had a painful experience as a child yet she has delivered an amazing story of overcoming her handicap... she's so inspiring, awesome.
@subandi....she had a father that she learned from, too. So many kids dont have that these days. Very sad.
Amazing!
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This is not just for children--the exercises work for ALL ages! My 73-year-old father is the oldest student in the Arrowsmith program and is having incredible results! These exercises need to be part of general education at all age levels. Our brains can change and grow throughout our entire lives. There is no "too old"!!
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My dad died of Alzheimer's disease. In my late fifties, I noticed I was slowing down in my memory skills. I decided since there is such a connection between what the hands do and what the brain does, to work with my hands as much as I could so I went back to knitting. I was difficult for me at first. But as things got easier, I challenged myself with things which I found hard, and when that became easier, to find something more. I also learned every style of knitting so as to know how to knit each forwards and backwards. And when I knit I change my styles and work to be sure the knitting all looks the same.
I have far less difficulty with forgetting anything now. My memory is better now at 66 than at 58 when I started this.
Now I Europe, I have learned that they teach knitting in schools to both boys and girls. Their test scores exceed those of Americans, even those who are of the same heritage. So there is something to this. Knitting works well with attainment and advancement of mathematical understanding and also with music. Though I did not learn piano as a child, I did learn how to play by chord. Since my avid knitting, I sound very good. So there is something going on here.
Perhaps we are all our own puzzle and we can create the tools to help ourselves. In the meanwhile, I have made many useful things, so I have an outlet for my creativity. One cannot put a premium on what being happy does for one's mind. But I am sure that just as children find success and become more excited about learning because they can master a hand-eye skill, so it is with adults who fear they are becoming by the day, more child-like. You can do something about it.
Many find exercise is the key for them. The thing is do not give up. Perhaps it is learning to cook differently, again, don't give up. The more things you can add into your repertoire, the less bored your brain is and the more you have relish for life.
But I also know this, that nutrition is key also to how we feel and how we think as well as sleeping well and consistently. Our diet, if we are not eating meat, is able to create in our gut, serotonin which is shared with the brain. Many of us have had so many antibiotics, the microbes to support this are dead. We have to rebuild this flora inside ourselves and eat what is easiest to digest especially as we age, plants. Meats do not digest well, figure into stroke and heart disease, diabetes, cancer and arthritis, including asthma. What a price we pay to be addicted to our tastebuds and not willing to try new things. I've gone vegan and I will not look back. Lost weight and feel so much better.
We need to continue to learn throughout our lives. And we are the ones who need to go after it. Trying to keep up after a spouse who won't do anything for himself is no fun. I have to get out for a few hours to be able to remember that I am not him and don't want to be. Negativity kills just as much as a loaded gun. It kills the soul. Life is too short, we have to find ways to be happy even if the spouse is sappy. Another reason I knit, I can go loads of other places inside my head even if I can't with my feet.
To Courag1 I enjoyed reading what you wrote. Wise words indeed. Thanks for sharing.
Wow. Thank you for sharing your story. Sometimes I persevere through difficult tasks. Sometimes I just find the easy way. Think I'll take up knitting. Thank you 😊💕💕💕
My mother turned 91 and knitted from a very young age and still do. For her age, her memory is very good, better than mine at 66! She always tries to be positive, in spite of previous cancers and other difficulties. She is in an old age facility, but still reaches out to others. She also reads a lot.
courag1 “we are all our own puzzle and we can create the tools to help ourselves.” ✨✨✨ Thanks for sharing. And your knitting experience had inspired me & reminded me “to continue learning new things and not give up”🌸🌸🌸
Toni Logan - 👍 your comments motivate me to do something new thank you
I just wanna give her a tight hug.
She has became her own hero, respect and salute to her
Magnificent! I was a natural speed reader from the first time I learned HOW to read. My "wonderful" teachers told me that I had to say each word while moving my lips if I were to be able to absorb what I was reading. They totally ruined my ability to read until my mid-40s when I returned to college to finish my bachelor's degree. Little did I know I would wind up with a PhD in computer science. The faster I read, the more I comprehended. Now retired, I read 3 or 4 books at a time. Ahhh...
What an awesome story! Thank God you went back to school! I shutter to think of the number of lives lived far below potential because teachers don’t know that they don’t know. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Wow so amazing 🤩
I read 3 or 4 books at a time. My husband says how can you do that? I say I enjoy the change and it helps me to enjoy the different styles of writing more.
Cool
@@loiswhite1834 Shudder is a good word for it. An appalling number of prison inmates have been found to home kind of previously unrecognized learning disability.
Neuroplasticity is so exciting.
And it's good news for me, because my short-term memory and ability to focus has greatly diminished after years of stress and depression.
yeah, amazing that it's possible to improve/bring back cognitive abilities after years of depression and stress or anxiety. prescriptions meds can't quite do it though. books are way better. and regular practice.
Hi Stefan .There is hope! I was diagnosed with ptsd and clinical depression. I could not remember anything! I had massive memory gaps. I could not focus. If I read anything, it would not stay put..I could not hold on to any new information or retrieve old info. I read everthing I could ( over and over ) about how stress affects the brain. The amygdala (alarm system in the brain) is on full alert and your neocortex shuts down and along with it, all your higher order cognitive skills. Your hippocampus (where some memories are processed) shrinks and your memory is seriously affected. I began to practise mindfulness and eventually I was able to alter my stress response. It was a fairly long process but now my memory is sharp and I can retain and use new information. I am no longer depressed and I changed by befriending my brain and learning to turn off the stress response! A very simple basic life changing exercise.. breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Breathe slower on the exhale. This deactivates the stress response. Once out of stress mode, your body and brain can begin to heal. Do it as many times as u can throughout the day ..set little reminders. Just a couple of these breaths regularly. The hippocampus can regrow neurons. You can get your short term memory back!! Good luck.
Thanks!
sheraine zeffrienne Thank you Sheraine. I've led a stressful life most of my life. Though I loved to read, I had difficulty remembering whatever I just read. I would (and still do) forget the names of people I've known for years. I would just go completely blank. I would forget pin #'s I had used many times. I knew something wasn't "right", but I never sought help. I am now convinced that the stress is the reason my brain has never functioned properly. Like you, I'm reading and listening to anything that has to do with how to control and manage stress. Thanks for your comment. I now feel like there's hope.
Stefan Lay All the best in strengthening your mind, you want to live to the full so nothing can stop you now x
What a miracle! She needs to reach the many special education teachers with her message as possible!
I think what this testimony teaches us is that, not only our brain can change, but also us. We can be the better versions of ourselves in all possible ways.
So interesting! I realize the neuroplasticity of my brain when I was in college and an excellent teacher realized I had dyslexic tendencies. She took me to the speech coach who determine which letters I automatically switched around and then taught me how to correct the mistake before it happened. Took a few years before the problems vanished, but eventually my brain corrected itself.
Congratulations bro
I've worked with many highly paid digital artists/animators who were or are dyslexic. Think visually.
I've read "The Man with the Shattered World" at least three times, maybe more. He was so severely disabled it exhausted him to write a single sentence and reading never failed to give him a headache, but he persevered over many years to piece together an entire book about cognitive disability as perceived from the inside. He describes the moment of horror waking up in the hospital realizing that the newspaper with the foreign alphabet he couldn't read was actually his own language.
Having been one of the founding members of Eaton Arrowsmith School and Eaton Cognitive Improvement Centre in Vancouver, BC, I have seen Barbara's work, the Arrowsmith Program, change hundreds of lives. It's definitely not easy to change the brain, but with sustained, specific practice it is very much possible. Barbara is speaking at Neuroplasticity and Education: Strengthening the Connection in Vancouver on October 25th if any of you are interested. Should be a great day.
I could not understand the complexity of my texts in college so in order to get meaning from the texts I had to take notes as I was reading, highlight my notes, and keep reviewing my notes. Then eventually I was able to get meaning from text and complete all my classes for my degree. I think these strategies changed my brain because I did not give up.
Well Said.
Never take an “experts” opinion as fact. Especially when it comes to what you are capable of or not capable of base on their training or opinion. I was diagnosed with an incurable disease and told I would never improve and be on prescription drugs for the rest of my life. The day I stopped listening to my Doctor, I started to get well. I was taking eight prescription drugs I was told I would be on for life. I have dropped seven of these drugs and plan on being off all of them in time. You are your own best advocate. There is always a better way to solve a problem. Although it may require you to take an unconventional route to achieve your goal.
People who are wanting to know more about her exercises, she has a website in the description where you can find her book.
FANTASTIC!!!!! I suffered a cerebral haemorrhage in my teens. I couldn't do anything, tell a buss schedule, operate a laundry machine and so on. And my doctors just like she said tried to prepare me for a life going around and avoiding my difficulties. And after 7 or 8 years I got fed up with my situation and started progress towards my problems. It took a while and since then 20 years later I have drastically change my life in a way regular treatment would have me living in a special home. Important and well spoken talk. thank you Barbara.
Good 4 you!!! 👍👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
So well done Dan. Pls keep going and let more know about what your journey is.
What did you do?
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My elementary and middle school years were a struggle for me but for me everything changed my 9th grade year, I learned how to play chess and it was fun to me; the result, without me feeling like I was working harder or doing anything different, my grades went up and for the first time in my life I made the honor role. Chess changed something in my brain.
She just touches the surface of her accomplishments in this video. She works with kids who need to reconnect various parts of their brains that have, for whatever reason, failed to connect naturally. The methods she uses for hyperactive kids with very short attention spans was the most impressive I've ever read. Please look up her institute and whatever youtube vids of her therapies if you know someone who is struggling.
a lot of people owe you in this world...thankyou
The problems she had were more worse than my current problems yet she lives happier than me. I wanna change my brain too and now I just need to take the right bath. Thanks for this wonderful presentation.
"Every time we learn something new, our brain changes. With focused effort, we can intentionally rewire our brains to overcome learning challenges and reach new heights of achievement." - Barbara Arrowsmith Young
We shared the same childhood dysfunctions, we both had fathers that changed our way of thinking - our only difference she knew her diagnosis, I only learnt of mine 2 years ago and I am now 60. This woman has so inspired me - my father taught me all those games she herself used, I still do them to this day and I am sure that is why I made it thus far. This talk brought me the validation of me. I cannot thank you enough xx
Can u tell the excercises plz?
Thank you this gives me even more hope for my son who was born prematurely. It affected his brain and at one point we’re told only one side of his brain was functioning turns out it was too swollen to get a good read. We were also suggested to pull his life support because he wouldn’t have quality of life. Jump almost 19 years later this young man who went from delays in walking multiple challenges including hearing loss in one ear and sensory integration and tons of therapy (no drugs we didn’t want to mix with the brain chemistry) ended up running track, playing water polo, graduating from high school and now will be going to college. His high school counselor wanted to graduate him out in special Ed classes but he wanted the chance to go to college like everyone else. He worked hard to graduate in regular classes with only some sped provisions. He still has short term memory loss, can’t tell time on a clock and doesn’t drive yet (big potential to get lost) but one day will. I always told him he could do anything he wants in life but now I think that might have been abstract for him. Thank you again you have encouraged this mom to help him succeed!
I think it’s possible to change his brain not sure but I heard it
What a humbling, magnificent talk.
The part about reading philosophy is especially impressive. I have a BA in Philosophy with High Honors, and I've never read and understood 100 pages of philosophy in a row, whether by one or many philosophers. Understanding two pages in a row was a real achievement for me. Philosophy's often tough sledding, even for the practiced eye.
It seems to me Ms. Arrowsmith-Young had a brilliant mind before she overcame her blockage, because she figured out how to change her brain while she was still in the strange foggy world of her youth. And obviously her brilliance has shone more and more brightly since.
The implications of brain plasticity for education are unfathomable. I taught for 30 years and how I wish I'd know about this when I was teaching. We have to pursue it and find out how we can literally help students mold their brains for the better.
There must be so much more to her story. I'm anxious to read her book.
This is why I want to homeschool.
I totally agree with you. Our son is recovering from brain injury.
Yours is the most insightful comment here, I think.
To look at the situation and realize what genius she must have had in there, somewhere somehow. To be able to find her way out from inside the haze and endless confusion.
What she's done is breathtaking.
Thank you for your thoughtful commentary.
@@willbephore3086 I like the way there's no time limit on this dialogue. Thanks for the good words.
@@8acenelson was noticing that too. All the foibles of this world wide web, but some remarkable, unprecedented opportunities as well.
This is so me...still fighting...
thank you...I will be 66 this year 2019.
Me as well at 65.
@Sally...me, too.
This is definitely a life lesson. This is one of the people that makes the rest of the people want to live, and thrive and learn, and be better. She gives inspiration and transmits feeling of sadness, hope and desire, that few people achieve. She is a real hero and a genius, has she given other conferences? What is the tittle of her book? I loved this TEDx talk very much. Congratulations, Ms. Barbara Arrowsmith-Young.
My Mom was very physically disabled and had Alzheimer's at 80. A friend offered help as a caregiver but only spoke Spanish. To my astonishment I was able to teach her enough vocabulary for basic communication even though she often didn't remember who I was. It puzzled me for the longest time. This makes sense. Thank you.
Wow!
Brilliant Barbara! My son attends your school and in only two months of doing the Arrowsmith work, we have noticed positive changes in his self-esteem, happiness and spelling! Taking him away from the constant barrage of negativity in the public school system was the best thing we have ever done! He was in the special ed class for kids with learning disabilities but was blamed on a daily basis for not being able to learn! How much frustration can the students bear before a change is made? Thx
Truly inspiring,not only for those having learning disabilities but for each one of us for surpassing our limitations.
I’m recovering from a stroke and I’m slowly recovering but I am recovering and it’s because of people like this so thank you for sharing your story and experience x
She is the reason I always strive to let everyone I worked with know they can and they matter, they just needed to embrace the inability to find their greatest ability, Barbara here is a prime example of that. Why limit learning and moving forward because of one part of us that is different or complicated. Kudos and blessings to all who don't give up and may we all move forward.
This lady is an Einstien of teaching the world's teachers. She can do a lot to teach us all how to spur our minds into work.
Thank you so much for sharing, Barbara. I learned about your history in the book "The brain than changes itself" by Norman Doige. Your testimony has been inspiring to me and to my students. We can built the person we want to be. It requires work, but it is feasible.
Thank you Barbara I work with children and adults as a Speech and Language Therapist and believe fundamentally in the power of this process. I too see incredible changes in the clients I see despite the considerable impairments they experience. I am invigorated by your experiences. Thank you so much
This could be the genesis of enlightenment, and a better life for so many individuals. This should be in introduced in every school. Period
I have so many feelings about this. I was in her program in gr6-8. I hope it gets into more schools, permanently.
Easily the best TedxTalk I've ever seen. I've been raising awareness of brain plasticity ever since I read the book, "The Brain That Changes Itself" by Dr. Norman Doidge. Her book also needs to be read. This is all very enlightening and empowering material.
I totally agree with you
Lov u
I agree with you! My daughter has a learning disability of lack of working memory and at 7 we started working with her on exercising her brain. She just turned 9 last month and we continue to work on this exercises. I can only hope that with time she will be a better learner for all the hard work we put into this exercises.
It's very hopefully news to me that her brain can be rewired and not just to teach her coping skills (that what all schools recommend and argue for)
I'm just midway into this talk and it's already become my favourite TED talk.
Agreed
God bless her
She’s a hero In my opinion
God bless her
She’s amazing and awesome
Had to watch this video as part of a school assignment and I love it. Very inspiring!
This is a brave human being, amazing and inspirational. Thank you for sharing Barbara xx
yes thank you
A great talk, thank you. Many so-called 'special needs ' children today suffer from the stigma and humiliation of being unable to undertake basic tasks through a lack of cognitive stretch. Many average children however also find maths and clocks challenging.
I would like to have been given even one example of the exercises she devised - did she have help in devising them? In other words, did she understand the process by which she could repair her brain or did she simply rote learn how to read a clock?
Did she know that conquering one challenge would have exponential benefits in other cognitive challenges?
There is a lot more to be known and understood about her recovery process.
Yes I too, would like to know answers to those questions. Definitely wanted to know what exercises she used. I feel a lot was left out 😏
Her story is simply amazing. A miracle? Maybe. But the brain is capable of miraculous changes.
Thank you soooo much for this knowledge. I now know the route to take. Thank you🌹
I always believe that you can choose who you want to be
bryangld27 So you chose to be batman?
If I chose to be batman then I'd be batman right now
+bryangld27 This is correct. However, you continually surpass/overcome your current "Ring Pass Not". PEACE ;)
I love her! I have both The Brain That Changes Itself (with Barbara's story) and The Brain's Way of Healing.
Having a channel about overcoming "disability" I can completely relate to dealing with people that "just deal with it" and give up. It's so sad. I hope to be able to have a positive influence in their life. This video was very encouraging to me.
Thanking God for this great video. This comment on a slightly different tack, but recently decreased to nil over a period of three weeks, the strong dose of antidepressants I had been on. Almost immediately my memory, which had got so bad that I thought at 83 years old, I was heading into Alzheimer's, starting to come back as did my concentration and am now using Google and RUclips on my phone as my former secretarial skills are back as good as ever thank God. Not suggesting that all reading this does the same but feel I should share in the hope that others may be able to successfully to the same. Please God may this information spread and eventually be used in many various sections of society to the great betterment of so very many. Well done Barbara, may God bless you for sharing all this wonderful news on this most welcome and informative video. Greetings from Ireland.
Hello dear, nice meeting you here
I was fascinated but I also found myself wishing she had clarified at least one of the exercises she used to change her brain. An excellent talk!
the chances youll see this reply are low since you asked more than 4 years ago. though in case you do there is book "the brain that changes itself" in the book her case is taken up in much more detail and talk about the exercises she went through. I am not sure that it is the exact same person but the problems they had were similar. since the her left hemisphere was working her memory became amazing she excelled at subjects such as history and used this to her advantage. all of her mental exercises were based on memory and memorizing things rather than understanding. where as the physical ones were based on doing simple things such as building puzzles using her left hand or picking things up an placing them back down.
I hope this is helpful
Matej Simko I also been waiting for this comment for four years. I saw the first comment when in high school (senior). So four years ago. I already graduated high school and college. Have a beautiful girl two years old and a wife. Move to LA and living the life. Thanks thoe
Thank You .... I fully agree no child should have to live with something they do not have to live with. Love & Peace to All
She is a true inspiration……brings hope awesome thank you.
Love to her your story of life! I have just begin training my brain with DNRS and after only two months I already can Do things I couldent before!!! I am changing my brain! It can be done!
Neta Persson what is DNRS?
omg, i did the same thing. i wanted to learn how to read maps and i wanted to understand the world.. and so.. i decided to study geography... and now its easy for me.I wanted to change my brain, my struggle, and my life. My LD has been my motivation for change :') I am soo glad she talked about this!
Cool. At 51, I still am unable to read a map and go into a bit of a panic over them 😔 could do with learning at some point 🙂
Thank you for sharing this! I just wish you had shared more about the specific exercises that helped you overcome your obstacle/gift! I have a student who could be you and I have thought and thought about ways to help her learn without success. I know there is an answer - especially now! Thank you again!
Just research it. You're the teacher!
Sharing such stories is not only a relieving reflection but also an improvement of mankind. Thank you so much for sharing your personal journey with us, Dr. K. Lambert. Thank you TEDx.
A movie should absolutely be made about her life. Not only is her story very inspiring and educational about the way our brains work and how we can overcome mental difficulties, I'm literally tearing up just from her describing being able to read for the first time 😢
Such a brave lady! Lots of LOVE for her!! ❤
She is amazing person!I am admire so brave and persistent people!This performance get hope for future
Ez a hölgy minden tiszteletet megérdemel. Kívánom neki és magunknak, hogy a kognitív gyakorlatokat emeljék be az oktatásba. Hadd legyen a világon minél több olyan gyerek, aki boldogan jár iskolába és élvezi a tanulást!
Köszönet Barbara kitartó munkájáért!
We are our own worse enemy. I'd been being haunted by victim mode for a long long time and I didn't notice it. By self-teaching myself psychology and English(information quality and transparency are much better) I learn the phrase "victim mode".
By defining victim mode(blaming others, complaining, stay silent without reacting, don't fight for our own rights, quit taking the wheel of your fate, being distant etc. etc.) helps me spot where I am and stay on the direction I of my goal.
I am no longer a danger to myself. I am a living proof of human brain plasticity.
06:32 :Attitude learned from her farther:if there's a problem and there's no solution you go out and create a solution. before you can solve the problem you have to identify it's nature. Great parenting!!!
Thanks for the speech.
+Jiashen Huang Beautiful!
Literally cried. You're amazing. I have so many plabs with what i want to do with my brain now.
This is the most powerful thing I've heard in a very long time. I am 77 years old and have been dealing with ADD and depression and anxiety all my life. I've always felt like a victim but I've recently realized that I have the ability to control my life by teaching myself, my brain and build and create my life. It is incredible.
This must be what I have experienced throughout my life. I could not read until I was 9-years-old (my peers were reading by the time they were 7). I was fortunate enough to receive help from resource teachers from grade 2 to grade 8, but I continued to struggle in school and received a lot of 60% marks in high school, which led to me not being accepted into university. I decided to return to school many years later and completed my undergraduate degree with a B average, which was an improvement from high school. After that I began my master's degree, which I am more than halfway through, and I am achieving straight A's. At this point, school is easy; I do not struggle to understand what I am reading any longer. Now my son is struggling with school and I worry a bit about when he goes into high school, but I use myself as an example of how perseverance pays off to encourage him to continue trying. I also use my story to encourage other parents to never give up on a child who is struggling.
It would be nice for her to show the tools she designed to overcome it.
I agree.. It was a bit disappointing that she didn't provide a single example of a cognitive exercise that she used to overcome her mental blockages. That's the information I most wanted to hear.
"She isolated herself and began toiling to the point of exhaustion, week after week -- with only brief
breaks for sleep -- at mental exercises she had designed, with no guarantee they would lead
anywhere. Instead of working around the problem, she exercised her most weakened function --
relating symbols -- progressively. One exercise involved reading hundreds of cards with clock faces
showing different times on the front. She had Joshua Cohen write the correct time on the back. The
cards were shuffled so she couldn't memorize the answers. She turned up a card, attempted to
determine the time, checked the answer, then moved on to the next card, as fast as she could. She
started with two-handed clocks, making numerous mistakes. When she couldn't get the time right,
she'd spend hours with a mechanical clock, turning it slowly, to try and understand why, at 2:45,
the hour hand was three-quarters of the way towards the three. At some point, she started to get
the answers right, so she began adding hands for seconds and sixtieths of a second.
At the end of many exhausting weeks, not only could she read clocks faster than normal people, but
she noticed improvements with her other difficulties relating symbols. She began for the first time
to grasp grammar, math, and logic, and most importantly, what people were saying as they said it.
She left lag time behind. "
Look it up
@@bezenhappync . She has developed a program to help. It is becoming more popular here in the states. It's called the Arrowsmith Program.
they may not work for yout thoguh you really need to take away the way she is showing us not the what but the how.
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young is a courageous and inspiring woman. Great video
That's amazing. So happy for her, hope others can get this kind of help..? .
This brought tears to my eyes, salute to her
Found out about this woman through Norman Doidge book. An incredible case i must say. I personally can imagine how much strength it takes to start off such kind of journey and how tiring and depressing it can be. Though my experience is linked with psychology and caused traumas. Neuroplasticity and psychotherapy help a lot in understanding how your brain functions and that in some situations when you thought you were just unable to behave differently it turns out you are capable of shaping your brain the way it should be. You can change the way you think, behave and process things. Neuroscience proves that.
You just inspired me. Thank you so much for posting this
an almost incredible story, simply amazing. she is so beautiful and luminous.
Thank you so much!!!
her work and life are so important ! thank you for sharing
Dear Barbara, thank you for your beautiful vision and wonderful message
Perfectly put! :)
I'd like to add that the way we feel and what we choose to focus on contributes to the changes we make physiologically.
One of the Best Ted talks I've heard so far. - Sadhana Choukkar.
bravo, you have helped me and i know others, im inspired, thank you
Thank you for this video, you are amazing!
For those needing more information, she has written a book 'The Women Who Changed Her Brain'. I haven't read it yet so unable to comment, but available new or 2nd hand depending on your preference
I've read it and it is pretty great. Easy read. Lots of examples including pictures of some of her math work. Also, Howard Eaton, who runs the Eaton Arrowsmith Schools, wrote Brain School, discussing his journey to Arrowsmith after testing/re-testing kids who went through the program (& was confused by the results he was seeing.) I met him 10 years ago at a speaking engagement. My own son is working through the Symbol Relations portion of the program now...and we are seeing movement where we've never seen any before. Takes time.
I admire your tenacity and persoference. How awesome you are!! Thank you for sharing your wisdom. 😊
Thank u! This is so important and every teacher should learn about it.
Thanks for being so brave. You are truly an inspiration
Loved it! Very encouraging! Thank you for a wonderful speech!
Your findings are fascinating . Thankyou Barbara
this is very inspiring. thank you!
totally terrific! thank you!!
What a great, inspiring and moving talk! Thank you!
Amazing Lady. Thank you for sharing, Blessings
✨Great speech, Great delivery✨
It's really amazing ted talk for my experience watching ted talks. It's really help me a lot. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the talk. This is very encouraging.
Very powerful. All credit to her. An amazing story.
Bless you and thank you for sharing. Peace, Marcus
wondeful speech thank you so much! very well articulated !! thank you tdX!
Incredibly amazing!
Bravo lady, hats off to u!
Thank you for telling us your story !
You inspired + helped so many people 🙏🏻
this woman is an incredible person, and teacher! everything she.talked about, gives millions of others, hope, a chance, a different way of thinking, and... change their brain. with things I am struggling with, I know, I can change my brain! by doing so, my life can be.more relaxed, less anxiety, less confusion and.more enlightened. less hurt, more joy. I loved this lecture.
Amazing! I will guard myself from believing indiscriminately. Three cheers to you!!
"I don't like GPSes because I like to read maps now. Because I can."
Wonderful.
I am so grateful that we have discovered the phenomena of neuroplasticity in neuroscience! Our brains are amazing. This is a valuable tool for teachers to help students with learning disabilities. Want a new skill? Exercise those mental muscles!
Wow! - I am totally in awe and admiration for how this lady has turned her life around. Amazing!