Kaiser Permanente, thanks.  I was listening to the radio the other day and heard the latest ad by Kaiser.  It shocked me. The ad talked about “putting play back in your life.”

The ad said that “you can play with cards, balls, jump rope, learn a song, go kayahing…”

It said that play lowers stress, raises the immune system, improves the quality of your life, increases the oxygen flow to your brain, changes your mood… Continue reading →

by Amber DeAnn

Yes, I know.  Everyone says it but few can do it. I had a lot of trouble

getting started with it too.  But there is a secret.

STOP THINKING

I pulled  out an old Psychology textbook and looked up thinking–

“it is manipulating mental representations of information to draw inferences and

conclusions. Thinking is mental images and concepts directed toward some goal.”

There are two parts to the brain that help us reach goals. Continue reading →