9 Simple Active Strategies for Adding MEANINGS to Your Life

9 Simple Active Strategies for Adding MEANINGS to Your Life

Over the past two years, I have been conducting increasingly more classes to get participants to be more active and to exercise more regularly. From my participants, I learnt that many people are not physically active enough as they felt that there are many barriers …

Mindfulness To Guard Against Mind-Full Syndrome

Mindfulness To Guard Against Mind-Full Syndrome

In my previous article, I wrote about brain scans done in a lot of studies to evaluate the positive effects from regular mindfulness practice had found that  a few parts of the brain including the hippocampus actually thicken with regular mindfulness practice. And the hippocampus  plays important roles in learning …

Add MEANINGS to Life Everyday

Add MEANINGS to Life Everyday

Last month, I wrote about how one can come to terms with the diagnosis of dementia. 1 week ago, I was asked to present on ways to keep one’s brain active and ways to prevent dementia. And for that presentation, I created this acronym: MEANINGS. I …

Coming to Terms with Dementia: What Would Buddha Do?

Coming to Terms with Dementia: What Would Buddha Do?

One of my students kept asked me this question several times after going through the workshop in which he experienced dementia and learn about dementia: “Why isn’t there somebody to teach people what to with dementia?” I didn’t quite understood him at first. I asked …

‘Challenging Behaviours’ are Unmet Needs in Action

‘Challenging Behaviours’ are Unmet Needs in Action

Do you remember the story of my mummy’s struggle with my late-grandfather’s refusal to shower for days which I shared some time back? For those who have not read that story, let me recap for you. My late grandfather had dementia. Once my mum called me, …