One Simple Tip for a Better Night’s Sleep
Try this simple tip for a better night’s sleep tonight! We’ve all experienced it: you’re lying down to sleep after a hard day of work, but instead of falling into a deep, restful slumber, you end up lying awake for an hour—sometimes even longer. Even if you’re tired, you just might not be able to […]
How to Use Breathing to Calm Your Mind
In order to exercise this control, you must first learn how to breathe in a way that tells your brain how to access your calm state. When you’re in control of your breathing, you’re in control of your thinking and emotions. Being mentally fit requires you to think clearly and respond to situations rationally. This technique could give your life the mental edge you need for things to finally “click.”
Why Exercise is Critical for Peak Mental Performance
Want to improve your mental performance? Exercise, exercise, exercise! Most people are aware that they should exercise to improve physical fitness, but what few people realize is that exercising improves your mental fitness as well! Let’s learn why exercise is critical for peak mental performance. How Exercise Impacts Your Mental Performance While you’re exercising, […]
Gut and Brain Connection; Butterflies In My Stomach
Gut and Brain Connection, did you ever stop to wonder about the phrases “gut-wrenching, “nauseating” and “butterflies in the stomach”? They all have something in common: they describe the physical feeling, specifically that in your gut which accompanies emotional states. For example, pushing away a plate of food or feeling as though you can’t eat […]
Meditation and Peak Mental Performance (MEF-Meditation)
Peak Mental Performance The practice of meditation provides a verifiable scientific model of mental training tools and techniques that transforms connections in our brain systems that can be used to boost peak mental performance. The practice of meditation has been proven in changing the neuroplasticity of our brain systems. Specifically, the changes have been seen […]
Power of Silence
Have you ever just turned everything off? Or just sat and listened to the birds chirping on the outside of your window? Have you ever just unplugged for a moment to hear your own thoughts and not the information downloaded from the television, or Instagram or a text message that you just received? Have you […]
Yoga for Mental Fitness
Yoga for mental fitness is a powerful brain-training experience that combines the practice of yoga asanas (postures), breathing techniques, and hand mudras to develop a heightened awareness of the present moment combined with mental fitness techniques to train the mind to focus on desired experiences and outcomes, create balance between the left and right hemispheres […]
Mental Edge Fitness
Performance is 90 percent mental and 10 percent physical. Since this is true, why do we spend most of our time training the physical? Let’s focus on mental edge fitness. As a former women’s college basketball athlete, I remember spending countless hours in the gym or in the weight room working on my strength, stamina […]
Everyone Needs an Edge
Want an advantage over your competitor? You need an edge! It’s all about optimal brain performance. Optimal brain performance is simply your brain performing its best when you need it to the most. Who doesn’t want to be more productive, experience calmness, focus, enhanced creativity and energy to name a few? Well, that’s what you […]