Help Your Body Receive the Truth of Affirmations

Everyone knows that making affirmations can help transform our negative thinking. Sometimes the affirmations hang around our brain and are not heard by the tissues of the rest of the body. This 10 minute fun exercise invites you to say affirmations while making specific physical movements with your foot, hand and breathe. Your body will better remember the truth about recovery when you connect the affirmation to physical activity.

I suspect you will make at least one thousand new neural connections by doing this short exercise. Have fun. Your body will thank you profusely.

© Parkinsons Recovery

Thoughts on Thoughts

Our thoughts determine the speed and gentleness of our recovery. What better tongue twister to say and memorize a tongue twister about thoughts?

Do this now: Repeat the tongue twister below seven (7) times using a loud, strong voice. Challenge yourself with memorizing this tongue twister about thoughts.

I thought a thought but the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought. I thought if the thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought so much.

Once memorized, say this tongue twister out loud after you talk on the phone to someone during the next three days. Saying it activates the power of your brain’s plasticity. Your neurons will thank you.

What is a tongue-twister?

A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly. Tongue-twisters rely on similar but distinct phenomena, unfamiliar constructs or other strange combinations of the sound and meaning of words. Tongue-twisters use a combination of alliteration and rhyme. They have two or three sequences of sounds. The same sequences are repeated with an exchange of similar sounds.

Why does saying tongue twisters out loud help Build Neural Networks?

Talking loudly improves your voice significantly. Memorization of seemingly nonsensical sentences forges new neural networks. This benefits motor skills and memory acuity as well as expressiveness.

Robert

© Parkinsons Recovery