Brain Quote by Philippa Perry

In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.

— Philippa Perry

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

“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

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

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

— Philippa Perry

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

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

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

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

Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.

— Philippa Perry

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

If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.

— Philippa Perry