All of this knowledge, and a great deal more, has helped to build a range of practical treatments to improve pain by working with your brain. The skilled Clinicians at Perth Brain Centre are equipped to teach you how these brain exercises for pain work and how to incorporate them into your daily life, to reclaim your brain and your life from chronic or persistent pain experiences.
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Statistically our screen time increases in the cooler and wetter months, particularly winter. So too our time spent in other sedentary activities increases. There is a natural-ness to some of this behaviour. This month we set out to explore different ways of thinking about winter, screens, activity, and how we de-stress.
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If we’re honest it’s more like this time in the new year, not New Year’s Day, when life drifts back to what we think of as our ‘normal’ and we start to consider, perhaps, that we may desire a different kind of normal. We really do want some new-ness for ourselves. We daydream about it; we consider what we could change in our same old routine to transform our ordinary into a life perhaps far more extra-ordinary.
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Dear New Parent, How are you? Really? It’s totally ok to say you are not ok. You are in your own uncharted territory. The way you are feeling right now does not begin and end with you. There are other Mum’s and Dad’s that have felt the way you do right now. Parenting is challenging. Challenging is just the beginning. There are many new Mum’s and Dad’s that are going through the same changes, the same difficulties, at the same time as you.
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Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback is a drug-free treatment that uses a sophisticated brain-computer interface to ‘strengthen’ or ‘re-train’ the brain and has been the focus of considerable research for over 60 years. Neurofeedback training is a proven and effective treatment for ADHD that provides long-lasting results, and can help whether someone is taking medication or not.
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A is for Assess
Assessment can be a fascinating journey of discovery. When we uncover the details of what is contributing to the symptoms of ADHD, we can take the informed steps we need to improve. Assessments may include those with a GP, Psychiatrist, Paediatrician, Psychologist and Allied Health Professionals.
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What if for a moment we took the few words that are the name of a diagnosis out of the picture? To see if this might help to shift the frame from what fits into four words (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) to the story of the individual and their brain.
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From a mindful point of view, there could be a lot of value in the possible state of whelm in this evolved wordy context. Whelmed in this sense could mean - content, at peace, perfectly challenged, inflow, or ‘in the zone’ perhaps Certainly, a state of mind that would be nice to be in more often, rather than being over or under.
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The way NOT OK shows itself is rarely obvious. When asked ‘how are you?’ most people, that are NOT OK, are still going to say they are ‘fine’, ‘good thanks, and you?’, they may even overcompensate with a ‘living the dream’. We might do this, partly, because we are on autopilot when responding, maybe we’re kind of conditioned to respond that way, and because it feels like it’s way too much to open up and say (to a somewhat trivial greeting) things that are sensitive, complex and intensely personal.
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