| THE IMPORTANCE OF FRIENDS STUDENT ABLE
TO STUDY AGAIN
THE POWER OF NOT BEING
A PESSIMIST
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October 5, 1998
THE IMPORTANCE OF FRIENDS
The concept of use your brain or lose it got some more validation. A study was done
with aging mice. One group was put in an environment with lots of playmates and
toys. The aged mice developed three times as many new brain cells as mice that were
kept in boring environments.
This means the elderly need to keep active with friends and activities.
In addition, friendships can actually help speed recovery from a stroke. A study
reported in "Stroke", January 1993, had 46 first-time stroke patients that felt
they got the most tender loving care from families and friends.
The biggest difference came after six months. The people who did not feel supported
by friends saw their abilities after the stroke improve slightly after the stroke and then
dropped dramatically six months later.
The people who felt the most supported scored 65% higher on the tasks of daily living.
Some guidelines to help the person:
- Be a good listener to the person.
- Don't be overprotective of the person.
- After six months, most of the improvement has probably
taken place.
- Assert the stroke person in repetivity practice as they
need to relearn basic tasks.
STUDENT ABLE
TO STUDY AGAIN
I had a client purchase the Steven Halpern
Accelerated Learning tape for his son. Here's what he said happened.
I went in my older son's room last night about
10:30 p.m. It was the eve of his 18th birthday. He was doing the following...
- SITTING AT HIS DESK! (I swear, I don't know when I
last saw him do that. On the RARE occasions when he did study the past couple of years, it
was LYING DOWN on his bed.)
- STUDYING! (Yes, Virginia, he was really studying! I
saw it with my own eyes!)
- AND YES...PLAYING HALPERN'S ACCELERATED LEARNING TAPE! (The
volume was pretty loud, but so what!)
So as not to interrupt, I
quickly wheeled around and started out of his room.
He saw me and said, "Oh, come on in, Dad.
I decided to just go ahead and do my homework for tomorrow night as well, since my
birthday's tomorrow, and we'll be going out to eat."
(Please read that last statement about three
times!)
I WISH YOU COULD COMPREHEND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF
THAT EVENT!
I'm talking about my firstborn son, who went
from the Virginia Beach Old Donation Program for the Gifted and Talented to failing 12th
grade. I saw him do NO studying at home last year after October, except for final
exams for which he studied less than one hour total.
Well, this is a thank you note to you (and
Steven Halpern).
If you run into any non-believers out there,
give 'em my number!
A very grateful father,
JR
If you would like to experience Steven Halpern's Accelerated
Learning tape, you can go to my website (www.Teplitz.com)
and order it. The tape costs $15, and the CD costs $19. Shipping is $4.
THE
POWER OF NOT BEING A PESSIMIST
Does it pay to be positive? The answer is yes. Optimists recover from surgery
faster.
What if you're not an optimist? Then fake it. A study at Ohio State University
found that it was more important for a person's health and stress levels to not be a
pessimist than to be a real optimist. If you find yourself seeing the glass as
half-empty, ask yourself if that thought
is real. You might at least move to neutral if not seeing the glass as half-full.
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