If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.

I think there is probably something evolutionary in that we are drawn to the easiest option. But in our age of convenience, cars, ready meals and off the peg mean that we are in danger of being mentally under stretched.

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck

Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

Our brains do not have to be fixed, they can be plastic.

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.

Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person's unconscious if it is to speak to another person's unconscious.