{"id":895,"date":"2011-06-09T01:49:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T05:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=895"},"modified":"2011-06-09T01:49:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T05:49:30","slug":"maintain-your-mental-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/09\/maintain-your-mental-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintain Your Mental Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By David Rock<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, my friend and colleague Dr. Daniel J. Siegel and I got together and decided to create what we&#8217;re calling the Healthy Mind Platter. This platter has seven essential mental activities necessary for optimum mental health in daily life. These seven daily activities make up the full set of &#8216;mental nutrition&#8217; that your brain needs to function at it&#8217;s best. By engaging regularly in each of these servings, you enable your brain to coordinate and balance its activities, which strengthens your brain&#8217;s internal connections and your connections with other people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/managing\/content\/jun2011\/ca2011063_088224.htm\">Maintain Your Mental Well-Being &#8211; BusinessWeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The seven essential mental activities are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Focus Time<\/strong>. When we closely focus on tasks in a goal-oriented way, taking on challenges that make deep connections in the brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Play Time<\/strong>. When we allow ourselves to be spontaneous or creative, playfully enjoying novel experiences, which helps make new connections in the brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connecting Time<\/strong>. When we connect with other people, ideally in person, richly activating the brain&#8217;s social circuitry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Physical Time<\/strong>. When we move our bodies, aerobically if possible, which strengthens the brain in many ways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time In.<\/strong> When we quietly reflect internally, focusing on sensations, images, feelings and thoughts, helping to better integrate the brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Down Time.<\/strong> When we are non-focused, without any specific goal, and let our mind wander or simply relax, which helps our brain recharge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sleep Time. <\/strong>When we give the brain the rest it needs to consolidate learning and recover from the experiences of the day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Rock &#8220;So, my friend and colleague Dr. Daniel J. Siegel and I got together and decided to create what we&#8217;re calling the Healthy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,14],"tags":[79,135,238,346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}