{"id":952,"date":"2008-05-16T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=952"},"modified":"2013-11-13T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:47:45","slug":"brain-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/brain-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busy days. I&#8217;ve been getting the Mist up early with me to bike and run. Running is going great and biking is coming&#8211;we&#8217;ve had flat tires, broken gears slowing us down.<br \/>KW and Tess and dogs visit. T moved on to Vancouver and I will take KW and Mist to the bus station today as they prepare to visit the gang in <span>Kamloops<\/span>:Gran, Grandad,Cat, Brad,Hen and Sask. Hot weather lately 30 o weekend. KW and I and <span>Pippi<\/span> will volunteer for hot <span>lunch<\/span> in Tabs class today.<br \/>Tabs hurt her foot so missed soccer practise.<br \/>Buffalo coming slowly.<br \/>Summer holiday plans still in limbo as Peter tries to finish <span>dissertation<\/span>.<br \/>I&#8217;ve designed a three step program for Tabitha to deal with her anxieties. All based on <span>reprogramming<\/span> her brain. One is meditation with me. One is roll playing (she as dentist\/doctor etc), the other is <span>DS<\/span> <span>Brainage<\/span> games to relax her and exercise the math side of her brain. This, I found has always helped my anxiety. When I&#8217;m anxious, I get the girls to either play chess or mastermind with me. It is my personal research that has convinced me of this: Math cures anxiety. And in my family we all have strong math brains and anxiety. Go figure.<br \/>painting is actually math&#8211;puzzle building. Not many people realize that unless they are a painter themselves,but painting does exercise the math side of the brain. Gotta go wake up Mist for our run&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy days. I&#8217;ve been getting the Mist up early with me to bike and run. Running is going great and biking is coming&#8211;we&#8217;ve had flat tires, broken gears slowing us down.KW and Tess and dogs visit. 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