MENTAL FITNESS CLINIC provides education programs where participants learn tools for practical applications that can be employed in daily life. The potential for the brain to change itself allows us to focus on utilising neurobiological information and exercises to enhance healthy balanced brain activity. Ultimately the outcome is to have an ongoing skill set for life in order to naturally respond to life’s experiences appropriately.

Participants have the opportunity of restructuring the brain towards higher levels of functioning and well being. We use strategies to shift flow away from unhelpful neural looping. This might show up as ongoing low self-esteem, or a stuck mood, unhelpful behaviours or just an inappropriate response to the environment, as is seen in a continual reactive behavioural pattern.

Advances in neurobiological research supported by neural imaging studies indicate how adverse experiences affect the brain. We now know these encoded memories and beliefs can be processed, pathways can be rekindled and structures reformed.

MENTAL FITNESS – EMOTIONAL REGULATION & MENTAL FUNCTIONS

Some humans appear centred and calm when rapid change happens while others react as if their life is seriously threatened.     Acknowledging the way we feel personally about crazy unpredictable times and understanding the difference between real and imaginary fears, helps us to respond to all life situations appropriately.  With a moderate amount of training in mental fitness we  are able to process emotions in real time, instead of being overwhelmed by them and shutting down when it is inappropriate.

To begin the journey of emotional regulation we recognize our reactions and thoughts are separate from who we are .   Then when we practice awareness around our emotions and our thought process a profound shift occurs.

The other important part of understanding our mental world and being able to balance and regulate it , is knowing what it is comprised of.  What are our mental functions?

They are:

1.            Thoughts

2.           Beliefs

3.           Awareness

4.          Emotions/Feelings

5.           Desires

6.          Memory

You could say our mental functions are the software component of  our brain.  It is only very recently that Western Medicine (through advanced technology and using dyes from green jelly fish) has been able to pick up the functions of our brains on scans.  For me, when that happened, the world of modern medicine shifted.  Now we can track and see the functions of the brain and nervous system we can also know how to recondition, strengthen and regulate the system we were born with.  This knowledge has the potential to revolutionize a “medicating symptom approach” to a culture of care, disease prevention and resilience.