Today we live many more years than before. Life expectancy increases every day and with it mental illnesses. It seems as if we have managed to lengthen our life physically but not mentally.
This is why it is necessary a greater incidence in mental training. We take care of ourselves physically (or at least we should) but we don't give our minds that degree of discipline of mental training. On the contrary, we subject her to mentally damaging and very damaging situations in the long term such as stress.
But it is not only necessary to train the mind to avoid or minimize the risk of suffering from dementia, for example. We can train our mind to cure our headache, for example. In short, train the mind to achieve what drugs do but in a more personalized, effective and healthy way. Science fiction? Do not believe.
Today I bring you an excerpt from the fantastic program Industrial. On this occasion Eduard Punset interviews Shlomo Breznitz, psychologist, former rector of the University of Haifa, Israel, and is currently the president and founder of CogniFit, a software company dedicated to brain training.