by MAI Team | Changing our Minds, Optimism, Perseverance, Resilience, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
The human brain is a fascinating organ, with a tremendous ability to envision a future that looks very different than the past or present. This capacity for imagination is one of things that set humans apart from our mammalian brethren. Trouble is, we are all too...
by MAI Team | Changing our Minds, Flourish, Happiness, Memory, Mental Fitness, Mindfulness, Optimism, Pessimism, Positive Psychology, Self Confidence
The holiday season is looming, and in many households the regular cast of characters is assembling. True to form, the usual sunny-natured suspects will delight in the season and the Scrooge-like participants will not fail to disappoint with their sour demeanours and...
by MAI Team | Changing our Minds, Inner Strength, Optimism, Pessimism, Positivity, Resilience, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
Steel Magnolias is a classic chick-flick with all star cast, including Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and my personal favourite, Shirley MacLaine as Ouiser. It’s a story about the bond between a bunch of women, who on the...
by MAI Team | Disorders, Flourish, Flourishing, Gratitude, Happiness, Optimism, Physical Health, Positivity, Strengths, The Brain Diaries, Values
In Where is its mind? What the battle over the ‘bible’ says about psychiatry, Ian Brown, feature editor of the Globe and Mail, takes the view that the upcoming fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM V) has inflated the definition of mental illness...
by Helen Kain | Meditation, Mental Fitness, Mindfulness, Optimism, Pessimism, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
My aunt Pat was something of a dish. Lively and humorous, with a caustic wit that rarely failed to entertain, she augmented the very restrictive rations available to Britons during WWII with “two shilling teas” to which she was escorted by a bevy of besotted...
by MAI Team | Flourish, Flourishing, Happiness, Mental Fitness, Motivation, Optimism, Pessimism, Physical Health, Positive Psychology, Positivity, Resilience, Strengths, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
Trevor Greene, retired Canadian Forces Captain, can now do 30 squats while gripping a ladder attached to a wall. This would not be remarkable in any way except he had an axe put through the back of his head five years ago in Afghanistan. He had been sitting with...
