{"id":1114,"date":"2020-05-20T06:35:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T14:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2020-05-20T06:35:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T14:35:19","slug":"1083-cyclers-in-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"1083. Cyclers in Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“1083. Cyclers in Spring” Oil painting by Mariko Irie<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This location is Ramal Rd, Carnaros vineyard region, south of the town of Sonoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shelter in Place\u00e2\u20ac\u009d not many cars on roads, quiet, very enjoyable ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Till May 1, birds sounded like celebrating less cars and cleaner air, with joyful chirping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I heard we are in the second emotional stage of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shelter in Place\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first one was when we got order of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Shelter in Place\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were in shock from an unusual situation with uncertain future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People stuck inside house, a big stress to human-beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Violence inside homes have happened worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right before third stage people feel better and think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s over, but deep depression follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to avoid this, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our brains have good functions, such as activating dopamine to prevent depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eat food that contains tyrosine such as fish, almonds, soy beans, cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make a small goal each day. When finishing the goal, our accomplishments feel good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking is a good one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laughing is a very good one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now parks are reopened, tennis court as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cycled to tennis courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play tennis very long, as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to get the sense of distance from racket and a ball. Can you believe it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we laugh a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After sweating from cycling and playing tennis, we feel so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This I learned from Mizuto Aoto speech this morning. He entered the Department of Neuroscience at UCLA and graduated in 2012. He is a leader in the field of “NeuroEdTech”, which combines brain x education x IT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According his speech, they found our brain has other functions from which feel pleasure by getting information from unknown world. Otherwise our civilization couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have developed so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In neuroscience there is a principle \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Use it or Lose it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use the part of brain, lose it, like muscles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aoto said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We can see muscles grow if you do exercise. But we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see inside of brain. So just believe it grows as we continue to use it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Find happiness in Uncertainty.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future is ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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