Category: The Spark Effect
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Rewiring in Real Time: The Everyday Science of Brain Plasticity.
Your brain is not a sculpture — it’s soft clay, shaped by what you do next. ✨ A Spark to Ponder Every day, your brain quietly edits itself. When you reach for a new skill, remember a detail, or even stop yourself catastrophising and choose calm instead — you’re changing its wiring. Plasticity isn’t about…
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Mindset Sparks: The Hats (and Glasses) We Wear
Some mornings, when it’s cold and wet, I wake with my grumpy mindset firmly strapped on. Suddenly, everything looks a little duller through those stormy-grey lenses—the sky seems gloomier, the traffic feels slower, even my (first) morning cup of tea doesn’t quite hit the spot. But on another drizzly morning? Same weather, different me. I…
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🌤️ ✨ Tiny Sparks, Big Shifts: Cultivating Everyday Inspiration
Have you ever noticed how small things—tiny kind gestures, a glint of light through a window, or even a view—can lift your spirits? Inspiration doesn’t always roar in with thunder. Sometimes it does, but often, it arrives softly, nudging us toward hope and action. (For me, anything put to music gets me going.) ⚡️This Blog…
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