It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

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

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract.

If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.

In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.

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