#Mind February 10

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Keeping your body healthy and fit thru diet, exercise and rest is accepted by many. Yet, how to maintain a healthy MIND seems to be more alusive.

Reading poetry this month for the 30-Day Poetry Coach4aday Challenge has reinforced the concept that our brains need a healthy regime also. Indulging in reading prose has reinforced positive energy for me each day. In recent years researchers have studied the effects of poetry on the MIND. Using fMRI they have concluded that our brains are in fact hard wired to differentiate between regular speech and prose. Humans have the capability to process the rhymes and rhythms of poetry.

Poems about the MIND

If you want to locate specific poems about the MIND this link will take you there.

Today I decided to read “A Quiet Mind” by Thomas Vaux. If you want to read it, you can locate it at this link. This piece of poetry is not long but the closing lines really resonated with me.

The sweetest time in all my life
To deem in thinking spent.