Mita International Brain Center - Ellen Weber Phd

If we seniors are willing to be a bumbling beginner at times we are far more likely to become a magnificent master over time. Treated as stepping stones, our mistakes can become the hallmark of inner joy and mental growth. How so?

Serotonin choices fuel inner joy. That's how serotonin tends to fade out cortisol and lower stress or anxiety. Keep a thankfulness journal, for instance, and we seniors literally increase thickness in our cerebral cortex areas that control attention and sensation. Before stress or anxiety from perceived missteps move in and block our joy, we can choose and do serotonin actions that reconnect neurons of wellbeing and commitment.

You likely already guess how in this way we successfully support new neuron pathways that will activate reward centers so we look at problems with possibilities in mind. This process of catching ourselves before we ruminate over errors, leaves us with inner joy. We then focus on possibilities not on mistakes or fixing past problems. More at https://brainleadersandlearners.com/25633

A kinder and more caring inner voice shows us an essential flow of brain’s aha chemical serotonin. Fuels our innermost lives and stokes brain-friendly solutions that transform our problems into possibilities. But until we learn how to move from a fixed mindset, we remain as victims and miss opportunities that come to victors. See more brain-friendly transformations from shaming and blaming voices filled with cortisol toxins to a mindset of care, kindness and inner compassion that warms wisdom within us, as grace and goodness begin to pass through us toward others in ways that improve and enrich our world. More at https://brainleadersandlearners.com/25565

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When we revitalize our mindset based on an ability to reach more goals, fulfill higher potential, and bounce back after tough breaks, regardless of our age, our IQ grows. We literally change the chemical and electrical makeup of our minds.
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Plastic Brains or Dementia Fears for Seniors? We cannot choose both and thrive. But how do we live without mental health fears?

We may have built an entire system of end of life care facilities without considering a senior's growth mindset culture that helps them do more than survive. Here is a senior growth mindset culture that helps senior communities to thrive! https://brainleadersandlearners.com/

Do seniors in your circles find possibilities when faced with problems? It depends on mindset!

Look at conflicts or problems through a growth mindset and we grow and change in ways that benefit all concerned.

Look at conflicts or problems through a fixed mindset and we limit or stagnate so that we miss possibilities and inhibit our potential for growth. https://brainleadersandlearners.com/

“Society often writes off the abilities of the elderly – assuming both body and mind are deteriorating,” according to best selling author, Richard Osman.
If we agree with Osman, we’ll also like agree that the consequences of misjudging and underestimating this population also means we build and support ill fitting communities for seniors in their latter years.

What if more seniors help to resolve this problem of poorly structured residences by living our lives more as adventurers who burn strong, rather than withdrawn elder who burn out? We’d recognize how most emotional health issues and mental shortcomings we face, for instance, root back into our childhood and can still be overcome. It’s also true that about 70% favorable childhood experiences sent us into senior years with emotional health and feelings of security to build healthy human connections. But what if favorable is not the setting to describe our youth?

Good news is that every one of us seniors can sing with Lee Ann Womack, “And when you get the chance to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.” That’s because mental health as we age is far more than the absence of childhood trauma. It’s also our senior wisdom that cultivates inner joy, grit and resilience to navigate wellbeing for ourselves and others in a broken world.

“We never really understand others until we consider things from their point of view – until we climb into their skin and walk around in it.” (To Kill a Mockingbird) What if we imagine five qualities or habits we most admire in friends or family members. Then let’s consider one trait at a time from our list and become that characteristic.

Since we tend to criticize in others what we lack or dislike in ourselves it only makes sense to start with inner growth if we hope to improve relationships with anybody.

Let’s not be afraid of missed opportunities in past, or let’s not focus on any failure to relate well to somebody we care about. Even hatred or unforgiveness can give personal meaning and purpose to growth if we consider growth mindset as a way to improve our communication abilities. According to Carl Jung, “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.“

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How do we seniors thrive emotionally and mentally with immense joy and love in spite of challenges we face as we age? Partly because of serotonin we really are fearfully and wonderfully made! How so? https://brainleadersandlearners.com/24444

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Inner voice makes the difference!
Some call it intuition, street smarts, common sense, or emotional health. Intrapersonal IQ, one of eight intelligences we all possess is all of these things and more. It's also highly responsible for our choices to grow or stagnate, to smile or smirk, to remain lonely or embrace lively, even when we are alone!
Philosopher Paul Tillich put it this way.

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Why Give into Stress or Settle for Conflicts when Relationships Can Thrive with a Few Growth Mindset Hacks to Reboot Bonds Between Adult Children and Senior Parents. More at

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Problems between seniors and adult children weigh heavily on some who struggle to work through problems and retain relationships. Times have changed, and yet a growth mindset helps us to understand both worlds and to do what it takes to bridge gaps … More at https://brainleadersandlearners.com/25119

Why look to brains beyond positivity for seniors?

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Hard, Soft or Smart Skills for Seniors?
To move from a closed (or fixed) to an open (or growth) mindset is to develop and use smart skills to tame our brain’s amygdala as described below. Smart skills combine hard and soft skills to meet the mental and emotional problems with new possibilities. More at https://brainleadersandlearners.com/?p=24986

Will today’s chaos, calm, and choices heal or hurt a senior brain’s amygdala?

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