Uncommon Act of Design: Fake Bus Stop Helps Alzheimer's Patients. One of the most pernicious symptoms of Alzheimer's is that patients, in a fit of confusion, feel suddenly disoriented from their surroundings and wracked with a need to just get home.
As a result, Alzheimer's patients in nursing homes often escape--wandering at large, with no memory of who they are, oblivious to danger. The obvious (and common) solution is to lock up Alzheimer's wards. But then, that seems cruel and it often aggravates a panicking patient even more. Via Radiolab's podcast comes a remarkable story of how the Benrath Senior Center in Dusseldorf, Germany, found an alternative solution. The staff there noticed that escaped Alzheimer's patients often head directly to their only exit: Public transportation. So they built a fake bus stop, right in front of the clinic. Check out the full story at Radiolab--it's a tearjerker. [Image by emrank] Psychology of Color « Miss Centsible.
Your left side is your best side: Our left cheek shows more emotion, which observers find more aesthetically pleasing. Your best side may be your left cheek, according to a new study by Kelsey Blackburn and James Schirillo from Wake Forest University in the US.
Their work shows that images of the left side of the face are perceived and rated as more pleasant than pictures of the right side of the face, possibly due to the fact that we present a greater intensity of emotion on the left side of our face. Their work is published online in Springer's journal Experimental Brain Research. Others can judge human emotions in large part from facial expressions. Our highly specialized facial muscles are capable of expressing many unique emotions. Blog » The Crazy World of Visual Hallucinations.
Habits: How They Form And How To Break Them. Routines are made up of a three-part "habit loop": a cue, a behavior and a reward.
Understanding and interrupting that loop is key to breaking a habit, says journalist Charles Duhigg. iStockphoto.com hide caption itoggle caption iStockphoto.com Think about something it took you a really long time to learn, like how to parallel park. At first, parallel parking was difficult and you had to devote a lot of mental energy to it. Parallel parking, gambling, exercising, brushing your teeth and every other habit-forming activity all follow the same behavioral and neurological patterns, says New York Times business writer Charles Duhigg. How Habits Form It turns out that every habit starts with a psychological pattern called a "habit loop," which is a three-part process. "Then there's the routine, which is the behavior itself," Duhigg tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.
The third step, he says, is the reward: something that your brain likes that helps it remember the "habit loop" in the future. Rewriting the Mind – We Are What We Think - Evolving Beings. The conscious mind is the part we are aware of – the part that does the thinking, worrying, planning and creating.
It is a tiny part of the structure; it is the subconscious that is the looming bulwark, a massive entity with incredible powers and potentials. Its unique characteristic is that it can create anything that we command it to create, by virtue of the thoughts we think. If you believe that you cannot achieve something, if you believe that you cannot have something, the subconscious will create conditions, so that your beliefs are proved. To transform your life, it is very important that you seek the help of the subconscious. Thus the negative thoughts that create our negative conditioning, can be overthrown by affirming their opposite. To transform your life you must have a picture of yourself as you wish to be. The Power of the Subconscious Mind Louise L. She writes in her website, LouiseHay.com: “Our thoughts are creative.
Louise Hay says, “I am more at peace. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ColorQuiz.com - The free five minute personality test!