Biased by Smell – You’ll be Amazed at how Easily You are Influenced!
In studies, unpleasant odors that either preceded or happened simultaneously with facial expressions (Scientific American Mag) or as subjects read short paragraphs (Eagleman, Incognito) caused individuals to feel disgust in relation to the action they were witnessing or engaged in. Bad smells activate the insula, a center of the brain that registers disgust, and […]
Which Come First, Thought or Emotion?
Which comes first, thought or emotion? Because sensory information streams through our cortices with many connection points into the limbic brain by the time the information reaches our cerebral cortex for logic processing we have already placed a “feeling” on that information. It’s already encoded as either pain or pleasure, sadness or joy, etc. Dr. […]
B6 as a Way to Be Present
Dr. Rick Hanson, author of Buddha’s Brain notes that supporting the safe production of dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin all do wonders to support brain health, a meditative practice, and help reduce the damage of stress on the mind. However, if you are not getting vitamin B6 you won’t have the building blocks to converting amino acids […]
Fear: One of the Strongest Brain Mapping Emotions
Fear is one of the strongest mapping emotions in the brain. We have approximately 100 billion neurons in the brain mapping to thoughts, behaviors, patterns, and physiology. About five times more of those neurons are allocated to threat detection or fear than to seeing things on the bright side. The more we fear something, the […]
Your Feelings are a Gateway to Profound Healing
In a left-brain society we often value rationale over feelings–trying to logic the away, or stuff the so we can remain productive. Neurologist Antonio Damasio empahsized that feelings are actually somatic markers. That their role was to help inform our brain of both the conscious and subconscious states in any given situation. They indicate states […]
Brain-Body Balance
When we ignore our brain or our body, we easily enter a state of imbalance. Dr. Robert Scaer, Neurologist and author of 8 Keys to Brain-Body Balance, notes “The relative health of the brain depends on the health of the body, and vice versa. If trauma has adversely affected either one, you’ve got to find […]
Thought-muscles
The more you think a thought, the stronger that neural network becomes, exercising the synapse, broadening the dendritic reach, enhancing the long term potentiation, and thickening the gray matter. The thought-muscle you exercise grows in dominance. What are YOU choosing to think today? What can YOU choose to REthink today? For a deeper dive into […]
Neurosculpting® Facilitator Certification Training (NSFT)
Saturday March 9, 2013 – Saturday March 9, 2013 3055 47th St Map and Directions | Register Description: Neurosculpting® Facilitator Certification Training (NSFT) This facilitator training is designed for those interested in teaching Neurosculpting® or taking their Neurosculpting® skills to a much deeper level. Those who graduate from this program will have a firm handle […]
It’s Written All Over Your Face!
In 2001 neurologist Patrik Vuilleumeir found that a person’s amygdala responds in threat mode to the appearance of fearful expressions of others EVEN IF that person is paying attention to something else. The amygdalae’s job is to signal our stress response so that we have valuable stress hormones actively recruiting blood to the large muscle […]
The Thrill of Almost Winning
In a recent paper in “Neuropsychopharmacology” by neuroscientists at Oxford and Cambridge, their research noted that “almost wins” in gambling marked the same dopamine spike in the midbrain as actual wins. This may explain the addictive effect of vegas even for people who often lose. If an “almost win” can spike dopamine like that in […]
