The Healthy-Body, Healthy-Brain Book
My Amazing Machine
How to take care of the incredible you.
by Krissy Hall
You are the most amazing machine ever built.
A joyful guide to real self-care — where the brain is your Captain, feelings are your dashboard lights, and taking care of you is an act of love:
- 🦷 Polish Your Gate
- 🛁 Rinse Off the Day
- 💧 Fill Your Tank
- 🍎 Good Fuel, Happy Engine
- 🏃 Let the Engine Run
- 😴 Plug In & Recharge
I am healthy. I take care of me.
The eleven chapters
Chapter 1
Meet Your Machine
You are the most amazing machine ever built — and you are the one who gets to take care of it.
Chapter 2
Who’s the Captain?
Your Captain is your brain. It never, ever sleeps on the job.
Chapter 3
Your Dashboard Lights
Your machine is always talking to you. Your job is just to notice — and then help.
Chapter 4
Polish Your Gate
Your teeth are the strong white gate to your machine. Everything good comes in through the gate.
Chapter 5
Rinse Off the Day
A rinse is a reset button for the whole you.
Chapter 6
A Clear Deck
Clear deck, clear Captain.
Chapter 7
Fill the Tank
When you feel foggy, grumpy, or worn out, try water first.
Chapter 8
Good Fuel, Happy Engine
Grow-fuel is the steady kind. Zoom-fuel is a sometimes fuel, not an always fuel.
Chapter 9
Let the Engine Run
Movement is like a high-five between your body and your Captain.
Chapter 10
Plug In and Recharge
While you sleep, you are not doing nothing. Your Captain switches on the whole night crew.
Chapter 11
I Am Healthy
“I am healthy. I take care of me.”
Living Book · Reads Aloud
My Amazing Mind
An NLP Toolkit for Kids — read aloud
Seven tools your mind already has — read aloud, line by line, in two voices.
The seven tools
Tool 1
Your Feelings Are Messengers
Pick the feeling you have right now and hear what it came to tell you, then thank it.
Tool 2
Your Calm Button
A breathing pacer you breathe along with — smell the flower in, blow the candle out — and a calm word you choose and keep.
Tool 3
Thoughts Are Like Clouds
Write a thought that is bothering you, watch it drift right across the sky and go — and see that the sky is still there.
Tool 4
The Movie in Your Mind
Real director’s controls — size, brightness, colour and distance — on a picture you name yourself.
Tool 5
The Magic Word
Type the thing you can’t do. The machine adds the word, says it back out loud, and keeps your list of yets.
Tool 6
Meet Future You
Write to future you about today, and let future you write back. Both are kept.
Tool 7
Kind Words Make a Kind World
Say the kind thing to yourself first — then say the same sentence to your best friend and see they are the same sentence.
Not a rule somebody made up
This site carries Krissy Hall’s two books word for word, and then does the thing a printed page cannot: the two-minute brush actually times two minutes, the calm button actually paces your breathing, the ten-things game actually counts to ten, and the living book is actually read aloud. Nothing you tick or type is sent anywhere — it stays in your own browser.