Cognitive tips for building new habits
Building habits can help anyone to improve aspects of their life. Many strive to maintain healthy habits such as eating a balanced diet, sleeping on a regular schedule, and caring for cognitive health. Habits can be beneficial for anyone living with a cognitive condition.
In many ways, habits form our lives. What we do every day makes up our months and years. Building habits around a healthy lifestyle and caring for cognitive health can make life easier and therefore more enjoyable.
Another way to look at it: not having healthy habits can create new obstacles in your life. For example, if you don’t have a healthy sleeping habit in place, you may repeatedly not get enough sleep which could cause your performance at school or work to suffer. If you don’t have a habit of practicing cognitive skills, you may experience more potent effects of an impairment or progress more slowly in treatment.[...]
Why habits matter
In many ways, habits form our lives. What we do every day makes up our months and years. Building habits around a healthy lifestyle and caring for cognitive health can make life easier and therefore more enjoyable.
Another way to look at it: not having healthy habits can create new obstacles in your life. For example, if you don’t have a healthy sleeping habit in place, you may repeatedly not get enough sleep which could cause your performance at school or work to suffer. If you don’t have a habit of practicing cognitive skills, you may experience more potent effects of an impairment or progress more slowly in treatment.[...]