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We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains.

Philippa Perry

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Philippa Perry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 1
Comics Writer
Novelist
Psychotherapist
Warrington
Cheshire
Philippa Fairclough
Brains
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Nature
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We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck
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Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.
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I think there is probably something evolutionary in that we are drawn to the easiest option. But in our age of convenience, cars, ready meals and off the peg mean that we are in danger of being mentally under stretched.
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Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person's unconscious if it is to speak to another person's unconscious.
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It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.
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After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.
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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 neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.
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Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it.
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If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.
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If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.
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Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.
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A sense of achievement improves general confidence and self-esteem.
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Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.
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A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.
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The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract.
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People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.
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If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.
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Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.
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