The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay… — 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
