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Breathing is necessary and we all know how to do it. But Breathing for Brain Fitness is a whole other animal and one you and your family can easily learn. It will enhance all your travels and your life in general. Let me explain. Our brains are greedy They steal 20% of every breath we take. But it\’s never enough. We would all benefit from 25 extra deep breaths daily to improve the oxygenation and circulation to our brain but there never seems to be sufficient time in a day to do it all, right?  And who can be bothered to remember to breath in a special way in our hectic lives? YOU can! Travel is a perfect time to develop good breathing habits. We are already more relaxed and open to new experiences on a trip. It\’s easy to include it in your itinerary and can become a good \”family togetherness\” part of any travel plan. Car travel is an easy place to add this but breathing can happen anywhere – an airport, a coffee shop, a bus or train ride, a visit to the beach. That\’s the beauty of this process.   Breathing for brain fitness helps improve memory as you relax and increase your visual vocabulary and ability. This comes in handy for those endless “Where\’s Waldo”  games that require focus and good visual skills. Studies show regular deep breathing will help with so many other parts of your lives including family, team and individual sports. Deep breathing also takes the testosterone and hormonal levels down a good few notches – great to use for those who travel with teens and young adults. Basically, breathing is necessary but Breathing for Brain Fitness is a must for those cabin fever moments during trips where extreme weather can keep everyone inside, climbing the walls. So let\’s begin.  Training your brain? Brain fitness? What is that? Our brains are amazing, incredible tools – we use them all the time (except that woman who cut you off in the left turn lane – clearly, she was not using her brain!). Current research tells us that our brains have astounding plasticity and are constantly being constantly being reshaped based on our experiences. But are you and your family stretching your brains, exercising that versatile muscle daily to improve its flexibility, elasticity, processing speed, and forcing it to grow in ways that only mental strength training can encourage? If your answer is no, the time to start is now. It\’s Easy as 1, 2, 3 Breathing for Brain Fitness requires 3 simple steps Breathe in through your nose slowly and deeply, counting as you do. Hold that breath for your original count PLUS ONE. Push out your breath fully through lightly clenched teeth with a huge smile on your face using a “shee” sound for your original count PLUS TWO. You should hear your exhale clearly. Practice in private if you are self conscious but the \”shee\” part is important. It helps to fully release the breath you are holding and studies show that you breath out toxins as well.Rinse and repeat twice. Ideally, if you could do 8 sets of three breaths a few times during the day, you would see the great benefits immediately. Try to work up to a 10 second breath as your ultimate goal during the course of your trip. That means you would work toward a 10 count breath IN, then really HOLD it for a count to 11, and “shee” your breath OUT s-l-o-w-l-y for a full count to 12. About 90 seconds for a set of 3 and you will be fully on the road to Brain Fitness Gold! Keep a breathing chart or mark down the count level achieved with other journal entries. It really helps to note it down. There are many ways to do this but I have a tracker I\’ve prepared for you. Go to http://BrainFitnessUnlimited.com/BreathingforBrainFitnessTracker to download and begin!  Road trips are a great time to practice Breathing for Brain Fitness and an easy time to track progress. It will really help you survive in a brainy way! Check out TMOM Mimi Slawoff\’s Family Road Trip Survival Guide for some other great road trip tips. Just add Breathing for Brain Fitness to her list… ;D Brains are amazing. Truly. It\’s with the help of your brain that you\’re reading and understanding these words, right now. Awesome, right? Even better is just knowing that there are many ways to activate your brain and make it stronger. Any word games and counting games you can add to any and all trips will benefit everyone\’s brain, young and old. As you put your brain through new experiences and exercises, you create new stronger brain synapses, strengthen existing neural connections and build new ones. As you do cognitive exercises, you are actually taking your brain on a trip to the gym: the brain gym. But you don’t need an expensive gym membership or countless hours of sweating to start on your way to brain fitness – all you need to do to begin is breathe. The time for you and your family to begin is today.

Skin is especially sensitive when traveling from extreme winter to a summer location. Summer sun is bright and strong somewhere in the world at any given time of the year. Whether you\’re traveling to the sun or it\’s coming to your neck of the woods, it\’s a good time to be concerned and prepared for sun and skin – especially skin cancer. April is Skin Cancer Awareness month but it\’s a serious issue any time of the year. I\’m the #BrainyFitnessTMOM so my focus is on the brain and travel but here is some brainy workout fun which could save part or all of your kids skin. As a concerned #TravelingMom myself, travel is fun, skin cancer is not.   Jumpstart your creativity with cream Sunscreen comes in all textures in pump, spray or tube. (Spray doesn\’t work as well for this Brainy Fitness fun). Give each child a hug first and say the words, \”I love you and I want to protect you.\” Now the \”creative part” begins. Make a game of slathering it on your kids skin. Slather it on and then draw lightly to etch lines and shapes into the sunscreen – my favorites are stripes and swirls and smiley faces although squiggles are easy and fun to do as well. They are creamy tatts! Kids love tattoos of all colors, shapes and characters. Add this to their body decor. Kids enjoy being creative whatever the medium so keep the play going as you protect your loved ones and pass on a lifelong and potentially lifesaving tradition. Brimming with protection Choose hats using a few criteria: –Hats that shield your face by color. Light colors reflect the sun away and dark colors absorb potentially harmful rays. Have them count by category the hats others are wearing throughout the day for some brain stimulation. (Let\’s count how many baseball caps, how many WHITE base caps, etc) –Brim shape and size. The bigger the brim, the better the protection. Here\’s a case where size matters! ;D! –Don\’t forget the brim in the back counts for extra protection points! –Choose kid friendly and easy maintenance materials. Nylon and synthetic materials wear well, can be squished into a beach bag and come up looking none the worse for wear while all the sunscreen gels and creams which can discolor cotton easily wash out. There are some pretty wild lighter colors to choose from when sticking with synthetics. Lime green and fluorescent yellow are two of my favorites. You can discuss colors to bring in some Brain Fitness fun. Don\’t forget the feet! Summer is a time for sandals, which exposes those tootsies and tender tops of feet. Use white cotton socks for that touristy look or slather on some cream – whichever works best for your crowd. Small exposed surfaces can cause big problems Be aware of those small slivers of skin – make sure to cover the tops and lobes of ears, under the chin is a must to protect from reflection off the water and don\’t forget the tops of hands including fingers and of course, the nose!   The Brainy Fitness opportunities never stop Discuss the amount and shape of sunscreen you are using to bring on the Brain Fitness benefit during this process. Are you using a dab, a dot, a large vs small blob of sunscreen? Get kids to be aware of ounces (the total tube is 4 oz., and we used how much to protect you/the family? Money can be brought in for some brainy life lessons to jumpstart their lifelong love of calculation: The entire bottle cost $10.00 and if we used 10% or one tenth of it, we would be using a dollar\’s worth — and then absolutely say \”the protection of your body is well worth every penny!\” which also helps build self-esteem in a loving way. Remember… It\’s much better to hear the groans and complaints when you make your kids wear a tee shirt in the water or grousing about the cream they have to endure putting on regularly than the crying and mewling sounds in their sleep from the pain of too much sun while having fun. They will thank you decades from now for the tradition of protection you started as people around them are dealing with skin cancer. Summer travel with kids can be easier by following: Tips for Less Stressful Summer Travel. See and article by TMOM @KimOrlando HERE and # Summer Travel Ideas for Toddlers By #TMOM @AmandaTopinka HERE. Note: As I was writing and researching for this article and Melanoma Month (which is May), I came across #TMOM Desiree Miller and her personal blog which Traveling Mom was kind enough to post HERE and is a good reminder of the scary reasons we should protect our kids while having fun in the sun. I personally like to use Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Sunblock SPF70. Stay safe as you play hard!

How hard is it to get your kids to eat a healthy breakfast? Or healthy meals at any time of the day? It\’s a job in itself and not many of us were trained as psychologists or drill sergeants, let alone chefs and food stylists. It gets even harder when we\’re on the road. You need to take the opportunity to turn those food issues upside down to your advantage during travel, when you break from your usual routine. It’s smart. It’s a trick that works. It’s easy brainy fitness, and the best place to start is from the top: the brain. You and your kids can easily balance a healthy diet and develop good brain fitness habits at the same time using strategic nutrition and my secret weapon: Getting kids to eat brain fitness worthy healthy food is all about color. I have personally tested and used these great tips and tricks. They made my life easier, made my kids happier, brought creativity into their lives, and joy into our travels, which I hope will last their whole life long. It’s a win-win situation for everyone. I want to share my secrets with you. To get started, we need to stimulate the visual brain… Yours, and theirs. Let’s start with color. Your Eyes are the Door to Your Stomach. How to Eat Healthy Food is the Question. Your Brain is the Key. First, you have to think about food in a very different way than usual. You need to bring abstract ideas into your real life. I will repeat that again. It is the foundation of so many of my creativity and brain fitness concepts: You need to bring abstract ideas into your real life. They will stimulate your brain in a very different and exciting way. What will you and the kids get out of working on brain fitness during travel and at home? Studies show there are many positive benefits besides better memory and an increase in focus and concentration. Better marks in school and more success at work make daily brain fitness habits a no-brainer. Another benefit is an improvement in reaction time, which helps them in sports and can help you drive safer. Add problem solving outside the box with a boost in creativity and suddenly, working on brain fitness seems like a really smart idea… This is how I live. At home and especially on the road. Secret #1 Food is Fun, Not Fuel! I want you to stop thinking about food, well…as food. Change the way you see, and you will change the way you think. I want you to see color where you once saw food. I want you to think about the colors you eat on the road, or buy in the supermarket, the colors you take home, clean, cut up, cook and eat. Think color when you think about healthy dinner ideas. This type of creative thinking will stimulate the brain, strengthen existing neural pathways and help build new ones. Secret #2 Want to Get Them to Eat Healthy Food? It’s All in the Details For the rest of your life (I\’m serious!), take a moment to think about this: What color did you put in your mouth this morning? Give it a sec. Having trouble? Think of it this way, for example, if you had blueberries and cream at breakfast, the answer would be blue and white. If you had strawberry yogurt and bananas, the answer would be pink, yellow and black or brown (for the seeds. Extra points for noticing the details!)… Well, you get the idea. Talk it over with your kids. Make it a game. Like counting all the red cars on the highway… Ask them what colors they put in their mouth each day for a few weeks until thinking critically and crucially about color becomes habit and automatic. Secret #3 Monthly One Color Healthy Meals Now comes the fun part – plan to eat a one-color meal each month. It’s extra fun to do on the road. It keeps all of you sharp and is pretty simple to do. Whatever color you or your kids choose, the rules are easy: choose your color, decide which meal, plan at least 2 items to eat and a drink. So let’s try a white lunch. White chicken salad on white bread, macaroni salad on the side and end with a scoop of white lemon sherbet. Easy peasy, right? If you’re on the road, a quick red lunch of hot dogs with ketchup, (ditch the buns), and a nice red apple will go well with a red fruit drink. You get the idea. This is homework for life, bubie. I have created, practiced and taught these concepts and techniques in dozens of countries to thousands of people of all ages and abilities… and it works! My two kids survived me, and all our local, world and adventure travel (for other adventures, check out Adventure Travel TMOM Fran Capo for some exciting travel ideas). Make everyday basics fun, and watch all the good that flows. When you show your children creative, fun ways to discover the world around them, you give them the keys that open up the universe and all its possibilities. I think this is one of the more valuable gifts we can give and share with our kids. Of all ages. When you start thinking about the world around you in terms of color, it gets pretty exciting. Remember…healthy food and Eat Color! Try it!… Check out Homeschool Traveling Mom Shannon Entin\’s interesting post relating children and color. Create your best day! Brainy Traveling Mom Alli Berman    

School is ending for the year, the pools are opening, the sun is shining – June is here! And along with popsicles and vacation plans, June brings with it National Alzheimer\’s and Brain Awareness Month. Though that might not be as sunny a topic, it should be on the tip of all of our tongues, right along with those Rocket Pops that signify summer is here. Worldwide, 47 million people are living with Alzheimer\’s and other dementias, and Alzheimer\’s is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States. A recent survey notes that, \”Americans fear developing Alzheimer\’s disease more than any other major life-threatening disease, including cancer, stroke, heart disease and diabetes.\” While we as a society fear the onset of a brain illness, we tend not to focus on brain health. Just like other organs in our body, we only notice when something is wrong. The brain is the most complex organ in our body. As long as our hearts are beating, our brain is the organ most directly responsible for our overall quality of life. With all that our brains are responsible for – visual processing,  motor coordination, attention, memory, executive functioning – you\’d think we would spend more time and energy keeping our brains as healthy as possible, but we often don\’t take notice until they are no longer performing as we would like them to. There is not currently a cure or a sure-fire way to prevent Alzheimer\’s or other dementias, but taking brain health seriously is a step in the right direction. While we may not yet have the key to end Alzheimer\’s, we do know that we can implement a plan for healthy aging – and that plan includes diet, exercise, social interaction, and cognitive activity. In fact, in Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, psychiatrist Stephen Stahl notes that “… so far, the only intervention that has been consistently replicated as a disease-modifying treatment to diminish the risk of MCI [mild cognitive impairment] or Alzheimer’s disease and that can slow the progression of these conditions is cognitive activity.” Cognitive activity. Brain fitness! But what exactly does this key to aging well look like? Brain fitness, at its core, is all about how well the brain can handle the daily cognitive demands placed upon it. Fortunately, our brains are not static, so we can train them to better handle those demands and increase our brain fitness. Training the brain to be cognitively active is not a passive act – it\’s mental push-ups and cerebral strength training, meant to keep your brain healthy, active, and working as well as it can for as long as it can. Just as physical exercise strengthens the cardiovascular system, brain fitness training is a tool for activating the mind, building new neural networks, and strengthening old ones. Overall brain fitness is vital throughout our lives. Thanks to neuroplasticity, our brains are constantly changing, forming new neural connections throughout life as we encounter new experiences, environments, and stimuli.  The brain\’s ability to reorganize itself is incredible, but if we cease to use neural connections, they diminish. This use-it-or-lose-it  phenomenon should have us asking how to use it so we don’t lose it. Brain fitness training is a way to do just that: to use it rather than lose it. Its cognitive training with vast benefits. Improvements can be seen in attention, memory, visual processing, motor coordination, and executive functioning (such as reasoning,  problem solving, and planning skills). Basically, improving brain fitness improves the quality of life. Some periods of life are full to the brim with opportunities for brain fitness. Think of the infant taking in their brand new world – every sight and sound is new, and they are learning constantly – how to communicate, how to move, how to make decisions, how to get what they want! Contrast that time of intense learning with later periods of life, when it\’s easier to rely on what is already known and there\’s less emphasis on finding time to challenge one\’s brain. But no one has time in this life for cognitive apathy – not if we want healthy brains, long lives, and to remain \”with it\” for as long as we\’re breathing. Mental quickness, flexibility in thinking, ability to problem-solve,  and overall brain function  are vital to living a long and fulfilling life. Brain fitness can improve all of these areas, and we can improve our brain fitness through cognitive training, active mental participation in life, developing habits of lifelong learning, managing our stress, exercising, getting enough sleep, and engaging in exercises designed to improve our cognitive skills. This June, I invite you to go purple for #BrainAwarenessMonth and encourage you to make a commitment to keep your brain as healthy as possible. For lifelong health and mental acuity, we need to cultivate a life that promotes brain fitness. Sign up here to receive a free copy of my Keeping Brain Fit checklist. Start taking steps today toward brain fitness and cognitive well-being. May you live all the days of your life! Alli Berman is a Brain Fitness expert and the Eye Brain Fitness Guru. She has been an artist, author, educator, creativity consultant, workshop leader,  perceptual and sensory products and programs developer, and motivational speaker for the past 30+ years. Berman has served as an educational advisor to the American Academy for Anti-Aging Medicine for over 30 years, and she is the founder of The Art of Rehabilitation and Anti-Aging Art. She created the PuzzleArt Therapy System in collaboration with behavioral optometrist, Susan Fisher, OD, and through consultation with neuroscientists around the world. Berman uses the system herself on a daily basis to keep her own brain as healthy, engaged, and challenged as possible! [CONTACT_FORM_TO_EMAIL]

My life was on track and I was going places. I was a talented young executive in my 30s, still enjoying the invincibility of youth. For a decade, I had my own international award-winning design and marketing firm in NYC, with some two dozen employees. I wasn\’t on my way to living the dream – I was living the dream! I had worked tirelessly to get there, and I never imagined I could lose it all in an instant. But everything changed when I suffered a stroke. No one expects their life to change dramatically and without warning, especially with something like a stroke, which most people think of as \”something that happens to someone else,\” or someone older, or someone more disease prone. But it happened to me, and suddenly, everything in my life was changed. A cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain is restricted and it results in cell death in the brain. Stroke survivors\’ lives are impacted in different ways, and the effects of the stroke depend mostly on the location of the stroke and the extent of brain tissue damage.  Common effects include: Paralysis on the opposite side of the body where the stroke occurred Memory loss Speech/language problems Vision problems Changes in behavior In the following years, I found myself on a seesaw. One part of me missed the fast-paced excitement of the business world. That was the life I wanted, but I could no longer function in it. My pragmatic half, however, moved toward new horizons. Finding a New Path to Recovery After my debilitating illness, I was grateful my right side was still working and my long- term memories were intact, but I felt adrift. It was difficult to concentrate. Short term memory deficits plagued me, and aphasia impacted my communication skills. I didn’t know where to turn, but I knew something had to change. When I suffered the stroke and then began the long road to recovery, I had made a promise – to myself, to the universe – that if I got through this, I would give back to humanity. I wasn\’t sure what that would mean, or how it would look, but I knew I would spend my life giving back. At that point in my journey, I was working on finding a new normal and recovering from my stroke, when one day, I felt restless. I felt the urge do something creative. I realized I had so much art bursting out of me, so much to say with color, shape, texture, and line. I had always been artistic and loved anything to do with my hands: painting, sculpture, calligraphy arts, crafts, flower arranging, trompe l’oeil, Japanese sumi-brush, weaving, needlepoint, crocheting, knitting, macrame, gardening, sewing, cooking — the list just went on and on. But above all, there was always painting. So I began again, putting color on canvas and letting expressions of color, shape, texture, and line take over. I was always covered in paint. To this day, I don’t think there is much in my closet that isn’t paint-spattered, unless it’s brand new. But as I painted, I began to recover myself in ways I hadn\’t expected, though it\’s certainly not shocking given what a transformative and powerful tool we have in art as a therapy. What came out of all the personal challenges of those years was a system I slowly developed; it was a way to connect with all the answers the world was offering me. To understand my own circumstances, I had delved into the world of neuroscience and vision therapy, connecting the dots between vision and brain health, learning the best ways to promote optimal brain activity and brain-body communication, and systematically putting those tools into practice. From Pain to Progress to PuzzleArt The result was PuzzleArt Therapy, a way to find happiness and live younger, live longer, and get stronger. PuzzleArt Therapy was born out of my journey from a debilitating stroke, and what began as an exploration of creativity and color and line for myself, grew into a visual perceptual therapy system designed to stimulate the brain and improve over 20 different skills. As I collaborated with neuroscientists, behavioral optometrists, anti-aging experts, and educators in order to realize the potential of PuzzleArt Therapy, it dawned on me that I had found my way to give back, and I\’ve been doing it ever since, dedicated to creating my own best life by helping others create theirs. I use PuzzleArt Therapy myself every day and I see the results in my own life on a continual basis. PuzzleArt Therapy was developed out of a specific need, but its applications are truly endless. Sign up to try out my free brain game, and may you live younger, longer, and stronger through creativity every day! Alli Berman is a Brain Fitness expert and the Eye Brain Fitness Guru. She has been an artist, author, educator, creativity consultant, workshop leader,  perceptual and sensory products and programs developer, and motivational speaker for the past 30+ years. Berman has served as an educational advisor to the American Academy for Anti-Aging Medicine for over 30 years, and she is the founder of The Art of Rehabilitation and Anti-Aging Art. She created the PuzzleArt Therapy System in collaboration with behavioral optometrist, Susan Fisher, OD, and through consultation with neuroscientists around the world. Berman uses the system herself on a daily basis to keep her own brain as healthy, engaged, and challenged as possible!