Teacher and Photographer I compose personalised audio to help people arrive ready to engage, learn and perform. Founder of Arrival Audio™.
United Kingdom
Joined May 2009
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If you could watch your brain while you're learning... it would look like fireworks.
tiny sparks shooting out, reaching for each other, building brand new connections in real time.
this process is called neuroplasticity. your brain's ability to physically rewire itself based on repetition. studies using fMRI scans show that repeated behaviors strengthen neural connections and increase activity in habit-related regions like the basal ganglia, while reducing reliance on conscious decision-making in the prefrontal cortex.
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Love it! and whole heartedly agree, the time is now. Positive words create positive energy.
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There is a big difference between being able to find something and actually knowing it.
For centuries, students memorized poetry and Scripture, because education was supposed to leave them with something they could carry around in their own minds.
You can try this with (almost) anything you read.
When you find a paragraph that you know you will want again, spend a few minutes committing it to memory instead of assuming you can always search for it later.
Information is easy to access.
That does not necessarily mean we know more of it.
As Samuel Johnson wrote:
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
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Spending quality time with your family.
No one on their deathbed ever thought they should have spent more time at the office.
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Education
SEND
UDL
Engagement
performance
coaching
Sport psychology
Workplace performance
Military performance
Behavioural science
Anyone working with any of the above, I would love to make a connection 💙💚
#Arrivalaudio #UDL #Education #Engage #Engagement #Performance #Coaching #Sportpsychology #SEND
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Life lessons from @rogerfederer (must watch)
1 Effortless is a myth
2 Belief in yourself has to be earned
3 Grit > Gift
4 Discipline is talent
5 Trust and loving the process is talent
6 You can do your best and still lose
7 Life is bigger than the court
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Love this. It’s a brilliant way to start your day. Knowing that you can’t please everyone - but it’s your reaction to things that’s in your control. Learn to react better 😎
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We let one imperfect day spill into the next.
Emerson offers another route: finish the day, leave the residue where it belongs, and begin again serenely.
That idea sits beautifully in the Arrival space.
Because Arrival is not about pretending life is tidy. It’s about helping people move from mental clutter, pressure or protection into a state where they can engage again.
Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is not push harder. It’s to release yesterday well enough to arrive differently tomorrow.
#ArrivalAudio #ArrivalNotes #State #Engagement
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This morning on BBC Breakfast, our ambassador, Tom Dean MBE, spoke with Sally Nugent and Jon Kay about his upcoming challenge to break a world record and raise funds for RLSS UK.
Help save lives by donating here: rlss.org.uk/donate/back-the-…
Watch the full interview on iPlayer.
ALT A news segment featuring three individuals seated on a set with a large screen displaying a coastal landscape in the background. The text on the screen discusses a channel swim raising funds for water safety education. A "BBC" logo appears in the corner, with a news ticker at the bottom mentioning headlines.
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I’m a retired brain surgeon and I wanna tell you why you feel like life is passing by. I just need one minute to explain this to you so hang in there.
Repetitive daily routines stop the brain from recording clear detailed memories. When every day looks the same, your brain does not track time the same as a clock does. It tracks change. If nothing new happens then days, months, and years start to blur together.
This is know as Time compression. When life lacks variety, your brain compresses past days together, making it feel like time is sped up.
To stop feeling like life is passing you by, add new experiences to your life. Break routine habits, like changing your daily home routine, taking a different route to work, or trying a new hobby.
Schedule small trips or plan new adventures so your days do not blend together.
Practice mindfulness by staying fully focused on what you are doing right now and not trying to race off to the next task.
Keep a journal and write down happy memories or memorable parts of the day before you go to sleep.
Take deep, calm breaths when you feel anxious or rushed to return your focus to the moment.
You can and you will retrain your brain to not feel like life is passing you by by following these few simple measures.
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Michael Phelps won 23 Olympic gold medals using a mental technique most athletes ignore:
"The biggest thing that really separated me through my career was my mental game. Everything that was in between my ears."
Michael explains how he used visualization:
"When I would visualize, I'd visualize every single thing getting up to a meet, probably a month or so in advance. What could happen. What I want to happen. And what I don't want to happen. Because when it happened, I was prepared for it."
He describes the goal:
"When I got to a swim meet, there's nothing I can control at that point except what I do. I can't control what anybody else does. So I want to know how the race could go, how I don't want the race to go, and in a perfect world, how the race should go. So I could get behind the block and not have to think about anything."
His coach Bob Bowman reveals how they trained this skill:
"When Michael was young, I gave his mom a book of progressive relaxation. Before he'd go to bed at night, she would read this progression of things: clench your fists, work through your whole body. He got so good she'd just open the book, say two things, and he'd be asleep."
Bowman explains why visualization works:
"The brain cannot distinguish between something that's vividly visualized and something that's real. By the time Michael steps up on the block at the Olympics, he's swum that race hundreds of times in his mind. All he has to do is shut everything down and it goes on autopilot."
Michael adds the key detail most miss:
"When I would visualize, it would be what you want it to be, what you don't want it to be, what it could be. So you're always ready for anything. If I have a suit rip, fine, I need another suit, put it on. Any small thing that could go wrong, I'm ready for."
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Standing on your toes is a simple movement that activates your calf muscles, which act like a natural pump for your lower body. Each contraction helps squeeze veins and push blood and lymph fluid upward against gravity, improving circulation and supporting fluid balance in the legs. Doing this exercise before bed may help reduce the feeling of heaviness, stiffness, and swelling after a long day of standing or sitting.
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🚨 Scientists have uncovered how deliberately training the mind to notice and savor positive experiences can fundamentally reshape neural architecture through neuroplasticity, the brain's remarkable ability to form new connections and reorganize itself in response to repeated activity.
Our brains naturally exhibit a negativity bias, an evolutionary remnant that prioritizes threats and unpleasant events for survival, causing positive moments to fade quickly while negative ones linger.
However, consistent practices like gratitude journaling or pausing to absorb good feelings counteract this by repeatedly activating reward and emotion-regulation circuits in regions such as the prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex.
Each time you focus on something uplifting—a kind interaction, a beautiful sunset, or personal accomplishment—neurons fire together, strengthening synaptic pathways associated with optimism and resilience.
Over weeks, this repeated activation thickens gray matter in areas tied to learning, memory, and emotional processing while diminishing the dominance of stress-related networks.
The result is a brain more attuned to positivity, reducing anxiety, enhancing emotional regulation, and fostering greater well-being even amid challenges.
Starting today requires only brief daily intention: notice the good, enrich the sensation by lingering on its details for ten to thirty seconds, and absorb it fully to convert fleeting experiences into lasting neural traits.
This accessible process empowers anyone to harness neuroplasticity for a more balanced, joyful mind.
Source: "The Neuroscience of Gratitude & Its Effects on the Brain," PositivePsychology. com (summarizing peer-reviewed fMRI studies including Zahn et al).
