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CHOOSING ME BEFORE WE

Choosing ME before WE teaches women to stop settling, to get real...

SPIRITUAL ENVY

Unlike the recent authors who emphatically say No! or Yes!...

BRAIN POWER

With practical, state-of-the-evidence information about healthy...
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LIVING IN THE LIGHT —
25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

With this comprehensive map to growth, fulfillment, and...
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SOULSPACE

Suitable for any budget and for one wall or one room, apartments or...
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MEDITATION — THE COMPLETE GUIDE

Uniquely comprehensive, this one-stop resource describes...
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BIG FAT LIES WOMEN TELL THEMSELVES

Most women have a nonstop chorus of criticism in their heads. Here,...
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CREATIVE THINKERING

This book's step-by-step exercises, illustrated strategies, and...
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ONE-MINUTE MINDFULNESS

With fifty exercises and practices to build awareness and center...
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A Talk with Michael J. Gelb and Kelly Howell, authors of Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age

Is it really possible to improve your mind as you age? Doesn’t memory deteriorate as we grow older?

Yes, it’s possible to improve your mind as you age. Memory can, of course, deteriorate as we grow older, if we neglect it. The good news is that there are simple practices that the average person can do to prevent deterioration and actually improve with age. Brain Power is a guide to these simple practices.

You share that the paradigm has shifted in relation to age and the mind. Please explain.

Most of us were raised with faulty ideas about our mental capacity — such as the notion that IQ is fixed at age five, that brain cells degrade yearly after age thirty,...