by Lisa Arie | Aug 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Recent studies show the physical connections between the heart and the brain profoundly influence the decisions humans make.This is automatic. It is also undeniable. The more effective your heart systems are, the better the higher functions of the brain will operate....
by Lisa Arie | Jul 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
In the dispute over whether a selfie can belong to a monkey, the monkey lost. The U.S. Copyright Office decided that the selfies a group of Indonesian macaques snapped belong to no one. Food for thought, but what seems to have been lost in this episode is another,...
by Lisa Arie | May 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Think about it: If something has worked, you want to do it time and again because there’s less risk involved—the results are proven. Brains are constructed to mitigate risk and are committed entirely to survival. So what do we do in the world we experience right now,...
by Lisa Arie | Apr 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
I wouldn’t qualify myself as one of the top 10 most creative kids on the playground–and that’s proven to me by my 6-year old niece and my 6-year old goddaughter on a fairly regular basis. When they say “Let’s build a fort,” I can still feel myself reaching for the...
by Lisa Arie | Apr 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
What does play look like if you (like so many adults) have difficulty connecting to your sense of play? A few years ago I probably couldn’t have answered that question. I’d become so work-driven I lost my sense of play. A coach I hired gave me an exercise. She said,...
by Lisa Arie | Feb 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
I would be hard pressed to tell you how often I have heard someone say, “I want to do this or that, but I am afraid.” I am quite fascinated with human behavior and what drives it. I am usually led to ask, “Afraid of what?” I am quite often met with the response:...