tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56307116098715390582024-02-18T23:03:25.789-08:00Intelligent Women OnlyIntelligentwomenonly.com targets smart women who want to think logically,
behave confidently, and handle their lives with greater intellect and lesser
emotion. Stress reduction, eliminating negative self-talk, problem-solving
thinking, cognitive restructuring, and detachment/distraction are recurring
themes. Gender differences and provocative psychosocial and political themes
show up weekly too.Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.comBlogger257125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-23514986304398448812012-06-24T18:06:00.003-07:002012-06-24T18:07:32.703-07:00Adios y Buenas Dias Amigas Intelligente (Just Wanted to Get Your Atttention!)Hi Friends of Intelligentwomenonly.com
I've moved my web site and blog, and you arrive there via the usual http://intelligentwomenonly.com It looks a little different, and zippier I think, but not a whole lot. I have short hair and have added brain fitness to my list of topics. Lots of new stuff coming up although I'm not ready for a webinar I'm sorry to say. But I'm going to webex.com to see ifIntelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-74799312251584783592012-06-22T03:30:00.000-07:002012-06-22T03:30:02.384-07:00Sleep is Important to Body/Mind and Everything Else I GuessA Wall St. Journal article, June 5, about sleep, gender differences and similarities, and import for relationships. It reminded me about how ever health care person I've seen in the last 6 months has reminded me how important sleep is to my teeth, energy level, lung capacity, running capability, brain function, and heart disease. And I don't have anything wrong with me except routine dental stuffIntelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-25772658787321074822012-06-20T03:30:00.000-07:002012-06-20T03:30:03.433-07:00"Newddhists' — A Coined Word (by James Atlas) for Westerners Hungering for BalanceAlso called, "nightstand Buddhists" by the author of the NYTimes Op-Ed, 6/17/2012 as he writes about a spiritual retreat he attended in northern Vermont. Atlas sounds like a rank newbie to the concepts of bare attention, psychological distance, the no-self, and the rest of the many values of meditation, whether it is based on Buddhism — or not.
I was uncomfortable with the author's approach — Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-78565565183380656012012-06-18T03:30:00.000-07:002012-06-18T03:30:00.230-07:00Running in Moderation Provides the Most BenefitsMost of my assets, I attribute to running: emotional level headedness, coping skills, general low level of anxiety, good immune system and general health. Now I find that even though I'm not running marathons, or even running 5 days a week. it's a good thing! An Argument for the Slow-but-Steady Approach
People who ran 1 to 20 miles per week at a pace of 10 or 11 minute miles reduced Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-42975459423507220802012-06-14T10:47:00.004-07:002012-06-14T10:47:29.979-07:00Hi visitors and friends of intelligentwomenonly.com The new, upgraded, redesigned web site and blog should be done by the end of next week. All will be pretty much the same, with posts from the last two years still available and continuing Monday, Wednesday, Friday posts on the same and/or slightly different topics for intelligent women.
Meantime, I'll keep putting up current articles on topics Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-48444487062990122572012-06-13T03:30:00.000-07:002012-06-13T03:30:04.001-07:00Good Health for Brains by Alvaro FernandezHere are 5 habits to increase your brain's good functioning. The tips come from Alvaro Fernandez, founder of Sharpbrains.com. Good stuff. I only copied the first five because they're the best, but you can see the others if you're interested at sharpbrains.com
I'm working on this stuff with intensity and delighted to forget about crossword puzzles.
The Ten Habits of Highly Effective BrainsIntelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-30078578243389535062012-06-11T03:30:00.000-07:002012-06-11T07:05:42.253-07:00I'm still reeling from much information and many mental gyrations as a result of sharpbrains.com virtual Summit. Here are a couple of new surprising facts:
• Multitasking isn't good for your brain. The word toxic was used which seems like overkill to me, but . . .
The impression I got was that brains are wired to work quickly and efficiently. When you're working on several different Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-33831614520266422942012-06-08T18:16:00.000-07:002012-06-08T18:16:28.985-07:00
Here's a part (the conclusion) of an article about problem solving by Art Markman, a PT blogger. So right on!
May 21, 2012
Is There a Formula for Smart Thinking?
" In general, an impasse feels so
frustrating, because you don’t know what to do next. That feeling of
being stuck makes you anxious. Getting anxious and stressed when
trying to solve aIntelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-61457151801463924162012-06-06T03:30:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:30:04.246-07:00Gender Pay Gap Thrives from 22-65 While intelligentwomenonly.com is recharging, I'll send out links to articles of interest for smarties.
"On average, women with college degrees or higher see their pay stop growing at about age 39, while men continue to see wage increases until they’re 48, according to a new report by PayScale, an online compensation data company."
http://lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-13983122325699837602012-06-05T13:43:00.000-07:002012-06-05T13:44:28.035-07:00I'm at Sharpbrains.com Summit — Virtual ConferenceI'm going to attend the sharbrains.com virtual conference the 7th and 8th of June. I'm not quite sure what to expect, but I'm looking forward to it. Lots of great speakers on topics all related to brain health and fitness, thinking, for people of all ages, all stages. I'll be Tweeting about it daily. If you're interested, my Tweets come to intelligentwomenonly.com or you can follow me on Twitter,Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-37865366494477062882012-06-04T03:30:00.000-07:002012-06-04T03:30:00.395-07:00Update on Intelligentwomenonly.comHi readers, regular and new —
I'm going to take time off (a week, or possibly two) from posting as I redesign, rewrite, and reorganize, intelligentwomenonly.com — with help from web designer, Debbie Hulbert. In the meantime, I'll post previous popular posts for your consumption and links to articles that might be of interest. You can always browse the categories (in the red boxes) and findIntelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-84491766474841302892012-05-30T11:30:00.000-07:002012-05-30T11:30:02.750-07:00Meditation, Brain Training, and the Detachment Technique — More Here's a previous post that ties in with the post of May 30, 2012. I'm doing all the stuff that's suggested by the new neuroscience. I have to acknowledge improvement in my intuitive thinking — but not enough yet. I have to notice those flashes more and write them down. Just listened to The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory on a long drive. It upped the ante on intuitive thinking. I'm doing Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-412012080757671352012-05-28T03:30:00.000-07:002012-05-28T13:58:52.178-07:00N-Back Games to Increase Intelligence Still IffyDo you know what the N-Back game is? I didn't either but now I do because it and its cousins are the mainstay of brain training, aimed at improving memory and attention for all ages. I tried one brain training game, about a 9 months ago, although I don't remember the brand name (ironic). Actually I bought it as a gift for my husband with the idea that we could use it together. The information Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-2586774634935505372012-05-25T03:30:00.000-07:002012-05-25T03:30:00.894-07:00Men/Women and Different Experiences of Sexual Arousal and Desire
Women's sexual desire and arousal is the topic of Leon F. Seltzer's PT blog article, "Paradox and Pragmatism in Women's Sexual Desire". He bases his thoughts on Ogi Ogas and Sai
Gaddam’s comprehensive volume A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World’s Largest Experiment Reveals About Sexual Desire (2011).
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolution-the-self/201205/Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-10221485700703449362012-05-23T03:30:00.000-07:002012-05-23T03:30:03.936-07:00Zip-zapping Brains Can Increase Saving $$ Behavior?! So Far, Just in the LabNeuroscience is covering the behavioral waterfront like algae in warming seas. Now it's about rebooting hard-wired spending habits. Noticeable differences in the brain anatomy and action was noted for savers and spenders. Which are you? Or are you in the mid? Sharon Begley's article in Newsweek calls the summary research findings, the "moneybrain."
Much of the concepts about problem-solving Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-11423874286544775952012-05-21T03:30:00.000-07:002012-06-13T13:29:53.459-07:00Break A Habit? Change the Routine, the Reward, the CueI'm out of my element, geographic and daily living, for a few weeks and realize that it's even harder to maintain a new habit (my meditation almost habit) when there are no longer the same familiar cues, such as NPR waking me up. It serves to remind me to wander from bed into the living room, set the stove timer for 20 minutes, wrap myself in an afghan against the cold early morning, hunch over Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-69699352914507965862012-05-18T03:30:00.000-07:002012-05-18T03:30:00.379-07:00" . . . weight change, up or down, takes a very, very long time"I'm diverting briefly from The Power of Habit, but staying on the topic of habits. An article about a mathematician, Carson Chow, who works on obesity for a branch of the National Institutes of Health caught my attention. (May 15th, NYTimes) Here are the high — or low lights. A new perspective that can be a bummer or can be a relief.
• It's not true that 3500 calories less is what it takes to Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-55655574716719134672012-05-16T03:30:00.000-07:002012-05-16T03:30:02.141-07:00What's Your Habit Routine?Why Do We Do What We Do in Life and Business is the subtitle of The Power of Habit, which I wrote about on Monday. I've never been as interested in the whys as in the hows. Insight doesn't produce change, which I've known early on in my days as a therapist. Even if we know why we smoke, or are negative self-talkers, or fall in love with the same, wrong type of partner, it doesn't help us to STOP Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-81743318349154926462012-05-14T03:30:00.000-07:002012-05-14T03:30:02.464-07:00Neurosmash the Negative Self-Talk Habit?"The Amygdala Made Me Do It," says James Atlas in his 5/13/12 article in the Sunday NYTimes Review. He describes the recent plethora of neuroscience books as "the invasion of the Can't Help-Yourself" books, which made me laugh. He cited Imagine, Thinking, Fast and Slow, and Subliminal as books that tell us we have little or no control over our brains, our will — most of what's going on is Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-80748033610472681332012-05-11T03:30:00.000-07:002012-05-11T03:30:00.733-07:00Find a Way to Detach — It's a Key Survival Tool "Don't waste time," concluded a reading at this morning's meditation group. One of the members of the group found the phrase harsh and prescriptive, unusual in the Zen tradition. Another became embroiled in thought. "How do you know if you're wasting time? Is being a couch potato wasting time? That really worries me. I must waste a lot of time." Others mentioned a Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-59994436777928093592012-05-09T03:30:00.000-07:002012-05-09T03:30:04.961-07:00More Agile Mind on SharpBrains.com
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From Dan Hurley's article, "Can You Build a Better Brain?" in the NYTimes magazine. So many different words, phrases, to describe different kinds of thinking. How is fluid intelligence different than mental agility, creative Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-47347730291523574692012-05-04T03:30:00.000-07:002012-05-03T21:57:55.869-07:00A Comfy Approach to Reducing Negative Self-Talk An earlier post (4/25/2012) quoted Kristin Neff's entire article about "The Power of Self-Compassion". Neff is a PT blogger. I like her writing and her perspective about being compassionate to one's self. She calls self-criticism what I label negative self-talk, but it's pretty similar. I suggest problem solving, realistic thinking, and detachment for reducing NST while she suggests Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-23684641360687636012012-05-02T03:30:00.000-07:002012-05-02T03:30:01.365-07:00Flexible Thinking Helps Eliminate NST — More from The Agile MindNo surprise that I found a link between a flexible mind and negative self-talk in The Agile Mind. According to author Wilma Koutstaal Ph.D, rumination may reflect a trait of "global mental inflexibility" rather than an emotional process. Although research demonstrates that short-term rumination can enhance single goal maintenance, acquisition of the habit of rumination was "detrimental in a task Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630711609871539058.post-8738741525009344722012-04-30T03:30:00.000-07:002012-05-01T08:12:00.149-07:00Hand-in-Hand, Up and Down, Back and Forth For Best Problem Solving Results I'm hooked on The Agile Mind by cognitive neuroscientist Wilma Koutstaal Ph.D. and am planning to drop quick pieces of information, quotes, useful techniques, and interesting research findings from her book about thinking on the next several Mondays.
Koutstaal tells us that highly effective
problem solvers know how to move flexibly from intuitive to rational and back
again and from Intelligent Women Onlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06572018068389360340noreply@blogger.com0