Compassion Meditation Rewires Brain’s Emotion Circuitry
What if meditation and thoughts of compassion could rewire our reactions to others? If you could heighten your empathic abilities and connection to others, would you? A recent neuroscience abstract in PlosOne indicates we actually can do this very thing through meditation. “Together these data indicate that the mental expertise to cultivate positive emotion […]
What’s Your Excuse?
Recent research this century has shown that meditation is applicable to, and effective for, depression, anxiety, panic disorder, stress, emotional regulation, addictions, psychosis, neurogenesis, dimentia, memory recall, cognitive acuity, pain management, somatic symptom control, hormonal regulation, genetic functioning, sports performance, medical student training, leadership training, and general well-being. With science backing such a list, what’s […]
Germs in Your Mind
What if your behaviors were like a groove in a record and once you got locked into it you played the same song, over and over? What if you could simply pick up the needle and play a different song? Would you? The laws of neuroplasticity say that we can. In an interview with David […]
Your Outdated Treasure Map
What if that one imaginary treasure map you drew as a child was the only map you were ever allowed to follow for the rest of your life? Could you get to all of the many places you’d need to go as you grew and life expanded? Not likely. This is exactly what can happen […]
Wait Until Your Father Gets Home!
Remember that statement when you were a kid, and how it filled you with a sense of dread when you were in trouble? The insula is important in our social brains. It’s involved with processing events in the future based on our current body states, and it deals specifically with pride and disgust. Studies published […]
Could Walking Upstairs Prevent Alzheimers?
Many view aging as a predestined journey towards senility, dementia or Alzheimers…or at least that’s what current American statistics would have us believe. Those with Alzheimers have no ability to create new memories and store them in their hippocampus — that part of the brain intimately involved in memory and cognitive sharpness. When an area […]
Can We Program Creativity?
Each time we learn something we create a neurological map embedded with the information from our experience. We then store this for reference throughout our lives. Each time we reference it in a new situation we have the opportunity to add the new situation’s information to the map, making the map broader and more complex. […]
There is Power in the Pause
When we are moving too fast, speeding ahead without pause or breath, we can not integrate the lessons and experiences we’ve had. Without the pause, perhaps we do not assimilate to give our spirits time to expand with seniority. Our neurology tells us about the importance of this pause. Neurons fire or don’t fire actions […]
Are You Walking the Talk?
As we engage in our patterns and habits, we reinforce them. We all know that without action talk is cheap. Sometimes that action needs to address our subconscious drives, those elusive mind programs that evade our detection. Dr. Bruce Lipton notes in Spontaneous Evolution that “while our conscious minds may easily learn new life enhancing-information, […]
Beauty…where does it live?
In studies done at the University College London, it was shown that when people experienced looking at things they rated beautiful, or listened to beautiful music a consistent part of the brain, the orbito medial prefrontal cortex, became very active. If the main activity of experiencing beauty resides in the prefrontal cortex, how are you […]
