All of this knowledge, and a great deal more, has helped to build a range of practical treatments to improve pain by working with your brain. The skilled Clinicians at Perth Brain Centre are equipped to teach you how these brain exercises for pain work and how to incorporate them into your daily life, to reclaim your brain and your life from chronic or persistent pain experiences.

Statistically our screen time increases in the cooler and wetter months, particularly winter. So too our time spent in other sedentary activities increases. There is a natural-ness to some of this behaviour. This month we set out to explore different ways of thinking about winter, screens, activity, and how we de-stress.

If we’re honest it’s more like this time in the new year, not New Year’s Day, when life drifts back to what we think of as our ‘normal’ and we start to consider, perhaps, that we may desire a different kind of normal. We really do want some new-ness for ourselves. We daydream about it; we consider what we could change in our same old routine to transform our ordinary into a life perhaps far more extra-ordinary.

Let’s LEARN a little GIVING and LOVING…

Linda Pang, founder of the ‘Feel Good Feb’ and ‘Kindness is Catching’ movements in Sydney, inspires us to have the intention and take the time to make others feel good. Linda’s website and facebook page offers ideas and resources to use for your own Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) to gift to strangers not just in February, but all year round. Kind acts like secretly paying for the coffee of the person in line behind you at a Café, or leaving a small positive handmade present for a stranger at a bus stop.