Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
“You may find that you have been telling yourself that practicing optimism is a risk, as though, somehow, a positive attitude will invite disaster… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was found to… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground.… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
![““You may find that you have been telling yourself that practicing optimism is a risk, as though, somehow, a positive attitude will invite disaster and so if you practice optimism it may increase your feelings of vulnerability. The trick is to increase your tolerance for vulnerable feelings, rather than avoid them altogether. […] Optimism does not mean continual happiness, glazed eyes and a fixed grin. When I talk about the desirability of optimism I do not mean that we should delude ourselves about reality. But practicing optimism does mean focusing more on the positive fall-out of an event than on the negative. … I am not advocating the kind of optimism that means you blow all your savings on a horse running at a hundred to one; I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.”” quote by Philippa Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/67c/philippa-perry-17021_hope_you-may-find-that-you-have-been-telling_253833.jpg)
