Monthly Archives: September 2015

Creativity Part 6 – Clutter on the Brain!

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Just like your physical body, your living space needs to be balanced. When “personal treasures” begin to overwhelm you, it’s time to de-clutter. A disorganized space creates stress that can leave you feeling overwhelmed, hopeless, and emotionally drained. Clutter is like the old saying, “too much of a good thing.”020-Creativity Part 6 - Clutter on the Brain_720x400
Clutter not only affects your ability to function joyfully, it also steals your creative powers! All of us have things that we absolutely love and we don’t want to even think of getting rid of, but are many of these things really being used?
De-cluttering is often a work in progress for many of us—it’s ongoing for sure. Join Kira and Bill Van Ittersum as they talk about some of their clutter issues and offer helpful suggestions on how to de-clutter your space!

Links
How Clutter Can Destroy Your Health: Get Organized Today
By The Alternative Daily
http://www.thealternativedaily.com/how-clutter-can-destroy-your-health-get-organized-today/

How to Rid [Your] Home of Negative Energy
By Sally Painter, Feng Shui Practitioner
http://feng-shui.lovetoknow.com/How_to_Rid_Home_of_Negative_Energy

How Clutter Affects Your Brain (and What You Can Do About It)
By Mikael Cho
http://lifehacker.com/how-clutter-affects-your-brain-and-what-you-can-do-abo-662647035

How Clutter Affects Your Life, & Secret (But Simple) Military Communication Techniques
By Daniel Hayes
http://simplelifetogether.com/slt-010-how-clutter-affects-your-life-secret-but-simple-military-communication-techniques/

Super Brain Food – Part 3

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Part 3 is all about Super Brain Food Snacks—yummy treats that keep your energy up while keeping your weight down! After all, who doesn’t enjoy a good snack?038-Super Brain Food - Part 3_720x400
Now, by “Good Snack” Kira and Bill Van Ittersum mean snacks packed with brain-powering nutrition that helps our brains function at high-level efficiency from one meal to the next. Also, snacks that will not spike our blood sugar with unhealthy levels of glucose or artificial additives.
All this boils down to snacks that will satisfy our tastes and cravings without becoming extra weight we don’t need. Listen in to this great discussion on healthy snacks!

Making A Vision Board With Kids!

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Vision boards aren’t just for grownups! The positive gains that grownups get from making and then viewing their own vision board each day can be had by kids, too. In fact, kids can build life-long visualization habits by learning to make their own vision (purpose) boards at an early age. The earlier you start, the more fun they’ll have with the project.020-Making A Vision Board With Kids_720x400
Vision boards help kids express their hopes and dreams in pictures, especially at a time in their lives when sophisticated language skills are still being acquired. This is a great time to begin discussing their likes and dislikes with them, leading up to helping them find out what they are passionate about. “How do you know you don’t like it if you never tried it?” is a great question to ask.
Listen in as Kira and Bill Van Ittersum discuss this question and several others as they share their experience with “Vision Boarding with the Grandkids.”

Links
The Reason Vision Boards Work and How to Make One
by Elizabeth Rider
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-rider/the-scientific-reason-why_b_6392274.html

How to Create a Dream Board for Kids
http://www.imom.com/how-to-create-a-dream-board-for-kids/#.VgMGEstVhBe

By Any Means Necessary: Breaking Down & Building Up The American Dream
(Several vision board examples.)
http://teamroom308.blogspot.com/2012/09/vision-board-examples.html

Gratitude Boards For Kids!
http://makeavisionboard.com/vision-board-gratitude-board-for-kids/

Helping Kids Set Goals With Vision Boards
by Heather Darling
https://intermountainhealthcare.org/blogs/2014/01/helping-kids-set-goals-with-vision-boards/

Super Brain Food – Part 2

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What we eat has a lot to do with the health of our brains. A diet balanced in organic, whole vegetables, “good” fats, and protein will keep your brain in optimum running condition.  In fact, if you misguidedly tried to cut out all fats from your diet, and skimp on protein, your body would sicken and die!037-Super Brain Food - Part 2_720x400
In “Super Brain Food – Part 2, Kira and Bill Van Ittersum talk about 8 “good” fats in both whole vegetable and oil form. Listen in to see which ones you’re consuming daily!

Links
“Brainchanger: The food, the facts, the science, to control your genetic destiny
by Dr. David Perlmutter, M.D.
http://www.drperlmutter.com/

Olive Oil: Brain Food
by Dr. David Perlmutter, M.D.
http://www.drperlmutter.com/olive-oil-brain-food/

Would the Real Olive Oil Please Stand Up?
by Eileen
http://www.phoenixhelix.com/2013/03/04/would-the-real-olive-oil-please-stand-up/

8 of the Best Healthy Oils and Their Benefits
by Hello Magazine
http://womensbrainhealth.org/think-about-it/8-of-the-best-healthy-oils-and-their-benefits

Borage Oil
http://wholehealthchicago.com/2009/05/11/borage-oil/

Coconut Oil: Four Tablespoons of This “Brain Food” May Prevent Alzheimer’s (Telling the story of Dr. Mary Newport and her husband with Alzheimer’s disease.)
by Dr. Mercola
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/13/can-this-natural-food-cure-or-prevent-alzheimers.aspx

The True Potency of the Pumpkin Seed
by William Gamonski
http://www.lifeextension.com/Magazine/2012/10/The-True-Potency-Of-The-Pumpkin-Seed/Page-01

Your Brain On Ketones: How a high-fat diet can help the brain work better
by Dr. Emily Deans, M.D.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/201104/your-brain-ketones

Super Brain Food – Part 1

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When you make eating healthy foods a daily habit, it not only nourishes your body but it increases the odds of enjoying a happy, healthy brain for the whole of your life. So much research has now concluded that eating healthy—fresh, organic, and whole fruits and vegetables, good fats, beans, and good grains—will indeed reduce your “biological” age as your body ages chronologically. Most children, teens, and young twenty-somethings are not too concerned with these findings, unless they have unusual and/or serious ailments.036-Super Brain Food - Part 1_720x400_03
However, once a person reaches thirty, the “uh oh” syndrome begins to arise. You can’t run as far—or as fast, you don’t sleep as well, you may have bouts of “fuzzy” thinking, and your weight begins to creep upward. This problem only increases in your forties and fifties.
By the time you’re sixty, you really take notice and try to reverse things to bring your body back to a new “healthy normal.” Why wait until you have dug a deep hole for your body to stand in? Why not give your body a lifelong gift and start feeding it right?
Listen in as Kira and Bill Van Ittersum discuss “Super Brain Food” over a series of podcasts.  Psst! It’s not only “Super” for your brain, but your whole body as well!

Links
Dr. David Perlmutter, M.D.
“Brainchanger: The food, the facts, the science, to control your genetic destiny
http://www.drperlmutter.com/

Eat Smart for a Healthier Brain
by Carol Sorgen
http://www.webmd.com/diet/eat-smart-healthier-brain?page=1

Nine Ways to Make Yourself Smarter
by Dr. Mercola
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/05/17/good-brain-health-tips.aspx

Brain Health: Can These Tricks Make You Smarter?
by Dr. Mercola
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/05/07/brain-health-tips.aspx

Green Tea Linked to Decreased Risk for Dementia
by Dr. Mercola
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/04/23/green-tea-dementia.aspx

9 Top Foods To Boost Your Brainpower
by Dr. Mercola
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/10/31/9-foods-brain-health.aspx

Creativity Part 5 – Balancing and Healing Your Chakras!

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Just like your physical body, your seven energy centers, or chakras, can be adjusted and balanced. The benefits to a balanced “energy body” are: more vitality in mind, body, and spirit, and keeping the spiritual pathways open to receive inner intelligence, healing, and guidance. In fact, many healers say that “dis-eases” of the physical body begin with imbalances in the chakras.019-Creativity Part 5 - Balancing and Healing Your Chakras_720x400
Join Kira and Bill Van Ittersum as they describe balancing methods for each of your seven chakras, and how you can keep them in tip-top shape.

Links
Warning Signs Your Chakras Are Out Of Balance
by Reshma Patel
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-13433/warning-signs-your-chakras-are-out-of-balance.html
6 Simple Ways to Balance Your Root Chakra
by Jennifer White
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-4514/6-Simple-Ways-to-Balance-Your-Root-Chakra.html
Simple Chakra Balance Test
http://balance.chakrahealingsounds.com/chakra-balance-test/
Solfeggio Frequencies and Tibetan Singing Bowls
http://balance.chakrahealingsounds.com/about-us/solfeggio-frequencies-tibetan-singing-bowls/

6 Reasons to Keep A Meal Planner

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Keeping a meal planner simplifies the whole eating process and keeps eating healthy on track! We all want that, right? You won’t have to stop and think about what’s for dinner—especially when you’re tired and hungry and you’re resistance is waaaay down—because your food plan is all written out and you’ve already bought all the ingredients you will need tonight! “Thank you, Meal Planner!”035-6 Reasons to Keep A Meal Planner_720x400
Listen in as Kira and Bill Van Ittersum share their secrets to constructing and implementing a successful meal planner. You’ll not only get some handy tips and ideas, but you’ll have fun, too, listening to their lively banter.

12 Steps to Competence!

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Kids need lots of opportunities to find their strengths and learn to take safe risks. You also need to guide them in their decision making but, ultimately, let them resolve many things on their own. This is the way to raise strong, competent adults—people who can make a difference in their world!019-12 Steps to Competence_720x400
Listen in as Kira and Bill Van Ittersum discuss their twelve steps to raising competent children. See how many of these useful tips you are already using!