The brain – to be more specific, your brain – is the most powerful tool of management you have. It works 24 hours each day to define and control your thoughts and to guide you through the joys, triumphs and stressors of life. It is the super-computer on which you process all your strategies, negotiations [...]

The Honorable Paul J Keating, a former Prime Minister of Australia,  would  often return to The Lodge (his official residence) after a harrowing day in the Parliament and relax by listening to music. He habitually used headphones and would spend time LISTENING to the music rather than just HEARING it. He found this exercise very [...]

The human brain has a very long evolutionary history going back to ancient fish in the sea called placodermi and ostradermi. Our brain is really three brains in one. The older parts of the brain carry very ancient feelings and memories that can influence our decisions and emotions for good or ill. The first brain [...]

Because attitudes can play such an important role in the direction of our lives, and also our personal stress management, it is important to understand how they influence our everyday behaviour. Professor John Young, a distinguished scholar who was described by The New York Times as one of the “world’s greatest living biologists”, wrote an [...]

Many of our stress responses are habitual.  The brain will activate the stress response whenever the stimulus appears. Let’s assume that you frequently get stressed by slow drivers.  Ask yourself these questions: 1. Why do slow drivers cause me to be stressed? 2. What is it about slow drivers that switches on the stress response? [...]