My sweet sister in law asked if I had a blog. I told her that I did but I never knew whether I would go public or not. I love to put my words on paper. I write out my feelings, thoughts and ideas all the time. Notes to my dear husband are often too long and wordy for his interest. I carefully write in my journal, because I tend to write things that later I don't want published. Paper with notes can be found everywhere, evidence of my illness. "Hypergraphia" a tendency toward compulsive and extensive writing. I recently learned this by reading Change Your Brain, Change Your Life. By Dr. Amen. I also read The Brain That Changes Itself. by Dr. Norman Droidge. I found both fasinating, and a little disturbing at times. I recognize many dysfunctions which have become evident over the years in my own life. Getting caught in mental loops that won't let go. Thinking about some faucets of life "like all the time"..background noise that is exhausting. Now some of this is all just personality...to which I am grateful. However, there are areas of brain function which I vow to reclaim, to retrain, and regain. I choose to seek the joy meant to be learned and felt while in this life. I no longer want to focus on the negative, have the dentist on my mind all the time, or feel not good enough. I desire to create, dream and imagine then live..like that. I am intrigued by the scientific research into learning, processing, mapping and functions of the brain done through nueroscientists and keyed to educating. Keeping my mind sharp requires I learn new things, not just keep up what I already know. A stagnant life leads to a brain that continues to take the same pathways over and over again. If I want to feel alive and excited I must create new pathways. I want to be old and functioning, old and communicating so well that I can not be misunderstood.(more on this later.)
See what I mean...I can just keep writing, and writing. Next, to invest in some of the scientific projects that have come about from the reasearch of years past. Stay tuned, we will help each other. And just in case you needed it today...Here's a ~hug~! Lisa
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