If you notice you are thirsty or have dry lips, you are already way more than 3 per cent dehydrated.

What can you do to turn a bad day into a good day? To turn yourself during a difficult moment into your best self? Write down the answer to this in your journal, and make a mental note to keep your eyes peeled for images in magazines that could represent your positive self on your action board. If I find it too difficult to change my thought

Once you feel the power of magnetic desire, it multiplies with each new iteration and nothing that you have dreamt of feels out of reach.

Being able to consider opposing views in our mind and come up with new solutions and responses is one of the highest functions of an optimised brain.

elevating your levels of stress hormones which prime you for threat and push you into survival mode, making it harder for you to think from a perspective of abundance, and to fully form and focus on your true intention.

avoid your screens for an hour before bed.

changing habituated patterns of thinking (both conscious and unconscious) requires effort and repetitive practice.

Interestingly, losses have twice as powerful an effect on our brains than the equivalent gain, so we are more likely to go out of our way to avoid a potential loss than we are to try to gain a reward.1

Activities like aimless lounging around, daydreaming, pottering and reading for pleasure rather than purpose all activate the default network in the brain.