There’s a reason the brain is attracted to memories of the past,
The science behind nostagia
Why I am fixated on stories
Our brains our hardwired to remember things in story format. In fact, if you tell a person a story, he will remember it far longer than a list of facts.
Life stories evolve
Telling your story can help your life, including organizing your identity. And if you have experienced suffering, telling your story can even help create positive changes in the brain.
Stories in the brain
Positive psychologist Shawn Achor describes how there are 11 million pieces of information from our nerve endings that bombard our brains, but our brains only comprehend 40 bits of information per second. If we want to capture the attention of someone’s busy brain, we have to do something that causes our message to rise above the noise. This is where stories become our knights in shining armor. For example, imagine a…
The Orchard By My House
Life is pretty intense for me, Christine Marie Katas, between doing my humanitarian work, juggling my academic studies in Media Psychology, opening a new business, dealing with media and tending to my family and animals. However, I have decided to make it a point to live as if age is irrelevant, climb some trees and get therapy and refreshment from nature more often. I am basking in the joy of…
My daughter featured on Billboard Magazine!
Lola Blanc Talks Dating Marilyn Manson & Premieres ‘Eyes Wide Shut’-Inspired Music Video “Lola Blanc’s work has taken her in all manner of directions, starting from a background as a pop singer/songwriter, where she even co-wrote a song for Britney Spears. ..She conjures a world of the dramatic and theatrical. This is especially visible in her video for “Don’t Say You Do,” a track about the brief time she spent dating goth rock…
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