Vocabulary

• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• have to: Must do
• over time: Gradually; as time passes.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in tune: Agreeing in pitch; agreeing in opinion
• get after: To talk to in order to get someone to do something
• mental fog: A state of reduced cognitive function, making thinking and concentration difficult.
• walk with: To accompany someone while walking.
• no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
• check out
• anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something that might happen, especially when the outcome is uncertain.
• cognitive: The process of knowing and remembering
• overwhelmed: To defeat something or someone completely
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• meditation: Act of deep and quiet thinking
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• mental: Concerning the mind
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
• rhythm: Pattern of events, motions, or changes
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• dedicated: To state a person's name in book, song, in respect
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• boost: To increase something; to make something better
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• dopamine: Drug used to treat shock and hypotension
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• sensation: (Person) attracting the interest of many people
• cortex: The outer part of an organ/structure, e.g. brain
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• meditate: To think deeply and quietly to calm your spirit
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• explore: To examine something in detail to learn about it
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• awareness: Having knowledge of something
• shift: To change in position or direction
• calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• prefrontal: Anterior to a frontal structure
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• similar: Nearly the same; alike
• decision: Choice made after thinking; final judgment
• mood: Emotion or a state of mind; how you feel
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• amygdala: Almond-shaped structure in the brain's anterior
• dwell: To live in a certain place
• internal: Being or happening in the body
• activate: To cause to happen; cause a chemical reaction
• mindful: Bearing in mind; attentive to
• jaw: One of the two bones of the face where teeth grow
• flexibility: The quality of being able to be bent or stretched
• psychiatrist: Doctor who treats psychological disorders