Lisa’s Note of the Day: Insidious Stress
Your thoughts and perception create the environment of the brain and vice versa. It’s the chicken and egg conundrum–is the thought the signal for the strss response, or is the brain chemistry the signal for the thought? No matter which comes first, stress is insidious. Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz does an amazing job of succinctly […]
Lisa’s Note of the Day: Present Moment
The Insula is important in our social brains. It’s involved with things like processing events in the future based on our current body states, and it is active when dealing with pride and disgust. Studies published in last year’s Journal of Cerebral Cortex noted that a sense of uncertainty increases insula activity and level of […]
Self Care Expands Your Experience by: Kelley Seriano
Like most of us, I spend a ton of time with my community or just out and about the town. In the past, the holidays would sneak up and before I knew it, HA CHU! I would get so run down that I would not have the energy to continue on. When my body is […]
Lisa’s Note of the Day: To See
Neurosculpting Note of the Day: Are you in unconscious blindness? David Eagleman, Neuroscientist, notes in “Incognito” that “to see something you must attend to it.” Here’s a neat experiment I do with my law enforcement workshops. I show a video of a basketball game. In it, a man in a gorilla suit walks onto the […]
Meditation and the Art of Slowing Down by: Cynthia Beard
Over the past few months, I have been receiving messages to slow down from random people and from different situations, so I’ve been reflecting a lot upon this lately. Here in the U.S., a lot of us are pressured to move at a rapid-fire pace, even during seasons of the year (like winter) that are […]
Lisa’s Note of the Day: Change
Change. Change, whether positive or negative, often brings up levels of uncertainty which wire into our brains to trigger a threat response. But we can rewire that response and navigate our changing world differently. By noticing each small accomplishment or win during any changing event, we can spike a little dopamine and give our brain […]
The Authenticity Trap by: Vija Rogozina
We are master storytellers! In fact, our brain is designed to weave stories. “We develop a sense of ourselves through repetitive internal thoughts, internally processed experiences, and a left brain that loves to fill in gaps of fact with a narrative to make sense of who we are” (New Beliefs New Brain, Lisa Wimberger). Our […]
Announcing New Beliefs, New Brain Podcast by: Shanti Medina
Have you discovered the New Beliefs, New Brain Podcast with Lisa Wimberger, Founder of the Neurosculpting Institute? This podcast is filled with new ideas, empowering and insightful tips, tools and topics on how the brain, body and spirit relate to each other in our everyday lives including monthly key interviews with visionaries like Elena Brower […]
Lisa’s Note of the Day: Beautiful, Ugly or Disgusting
In studies done in fMRI machines on the brain’s of individuals looking at art that they labeled either “beautiful, ugly, or disgusting” one area of the brain consistently got active while observing beauty: the medial orbitofrontal cortex (in the front of the brain). (Ishizu, Zeki, London). If we continue to feed our fear centers and […]
I Am The End by: Travis Rumsey
My Mom was a Nazi. I don’t mean that in some petulantly figurative way. She really was. At 12 years old she stood before her class to lead the morning “Heil Hitler”s in her classroom. All the kids were Nazis. The teacher was a Nazi. They had no choice. She was born out of […]
