We are holding a Feel Good event in our local library. Just wish more doctors were aware of your books and how they could help.
I have been an admirer of yours for years. Love your books and tapes and I even met you a few years back in New York City. Not only are you soooooo bright, but your sense of humor is very refreshing.
Lately I have not been able to read or listen to your tapes because I became the caretaker of my husband who suffers from vascular dementia. It is a full time (and a half) job, but I can do it, and even more importantly I really want to do it. Because I love him!
Here is my question to you: Do you have any suggestions for persons with Alzheimer or Dementia to stimulate their brain functions? and do you have any suggestions for their caretakers?
Thank You for the wonderful article “HOW YOUR MIND CAN EFFECT YOUR STRENGTH” – It gave me a wonderful boost and reminded me that life is really beautiful, especially with people like you in it.
I would be thrilled to pieces if you answered this mail.
The study compared Alzheimers’ patients watching videos (30 minutes a day for a month) of simple hand movements with other patients watching regular videos for the same time periods. It worked a little like taking the brain to the gym. Watching hand movements, odd though it may sound, activates the Mirror Neuron System (MNS) in the Alzheimers’ patients’ brains, which is an area affected by Alzheimers’ disease. The effect was like taking the brain to the gym, shaking off the plaques in some ways.
I wrote a little about it in my book, ‘The Contagious Power of Thinking’. I’m not really trying to plug my book here, only that it’s the only place I know of, other than the research link I’ve given you, where you might read about this study.
I dearly hope this helps, Karin.
ps: If the link doesn’t work (they sometimes expire), the paper is called, ‘Observation of Hand Movements by Older Persons With Dementia: Effects on Cognition’.
I´m 35 years and a few days old 😉 I have loved tennis from the first time I tryed it but i never got the chance to practice as much as I wanted to and have never felt that the conditions was got enough to make sure I could reach any thing near full potential and It has haunted me for years. My struggle with OCD have also contribute negative, as it make me struggle to maintain focus and confidence and makes me feel to curious and look up to early to see the quality of my shot. I plan to practise as much tennis as possible the neXT year or two and I will try to implement all the knowledge you share in your books and on your blog in to the training. I intend to do my best to play at the highest level possible for me. I look forward to be supprised by the result I will get and to thank you for it!
My Brother an aquired brain damage and either schitzophrania or hear a voice in his head that he think is telepathy that is caused by the brain damage (the symptombs appeared 1.5 years after the accident). The person that he feel is present exists and live in Denmark. Currently therapy dosen´t help him and he is very convinced that the telepathy is real. He belives that the person leaned it from buddhist monks in Asia and have false memories about how and when the telepathy stated. So I was wondering if it would be possible to setup somekind of event involving a buddhist master monk look a like and maybe the person he think he is communicating with where the monk stops his telepathic powers because of miss use of powers or somethink. My Brother is convinced that he does it to annoy him. So if he is convinced that thi event ends the telepathy maybe he could be cured by spontaneus healing? and the voices will stop.
If you by chance have any interests in such a project I would be more than happy to recieve your help. I´m not rich but if you feel there is high enough chance for such a trick to work I might be able to offer enoug money to make it happen.
Looking forward to read you latest blog about dead people. I´m currently on a mission to find the truth about as much as possible and I saw my self as a atheist until 6 months ago.