[Klara]

sorry, soysycophant, but with your advice she may swing too far the other way and just be wildly out of control.

enjambement22,

Following as well as you can a good quality centered mb diet is the slow and steady way - no real short cuts - there are some remedies that experienced mb counselors recommend AFTER they've fully diagnosed and talked with their clients re their individual situations.

We don't know everything about you - so it really is hard to say - I for one would highly recommend you get more sleep - get to bed earlier (remember Ben Franklin's wise words (he had so many), early to bed, early to rise), breath fresh air out in nature, while walking would be lovely.

As for the brain, there's a great little book called Keep Your Brain Alive, by Lawrence C. Katz, Ph.D. & Manning Rubin - their basic idea is that if you do the usual things in your life in an unusual way, you'll be creating "new and different patterns of neuron activity...which is how Neurobics (what this method is called) works."

Use all your senses in new ways, do things with your eyes closed, walk backwards, write with your non-dominant hand (or do other activities with non-dominant hand), look at pictures (or anything familiar) upside down, go to new places, try new foods - rely more on sense of touch, smell, hearing. It's a little book but has loads of great ideas.

Actually thanks, I do need to reread and do more of these exercises myself :>) I was so worried I was getting older, but what I wasn't doing was using my brain in more creative ways!!!!

Klara