Where do you Meditate by: Cynthia Beard
Do you sit on a cushion at home, or at a meditation center? Do you touch the earth, or reach for the sky? Are you outside in nature, or in an enclosed room? Can you hear the roaring sound of a river flowing, or the gentle breeze blowing? Have you wandered with others on a […]
Lisa’s Note of the Day: One at a Time
Research shows that multi-tasking impacts proficiency in the frontal lobes, limbic brain and mesolimbic system. Frontal lobes: reasoning, emotional regulation, appetite regulation, immune regulation. Limbic: emotions, fight/flight, sex, food. Mesolimbic: reward system and appetite. AND research also shows these areas are greatly stabilized through meditation. So, when you’re proud of yourself for talking on the […]
Lisa’s Note of the Day: Life Force
Science has proven that our mitochondria–the organisms that control and direct our energy and life-force–are only inherited from the mother. Through ALL of time these batteries-of-life have migrated down the female lineage. What, then, is possible if we nurture the feminine? Mitochondria respond and heal, (reducing free radicals they create), with glutathione stimulating foods! Lisa […]
Lisa’s Note of the Day: Conscious Mind
Our conscious minds, which use most of our brain’s energy, only account for 5 percent of our brain’s activity. 95 percent of what goes on is in the subconscious and zombie programs as David Eagleman calls them. So, when your logic mind tells you that you KNOW what’s going on it behooves you to question […]
Lisa’s Note of the Day: 85 BILLION NEURONS
Science now says we have 85 billion neurons in the brain. There are 5 times as many neuronal networks allocated for threat detection than there are for non-threat input. This is why negativity is so easy to default to AND so contagious. Believe it or not, positivity can be trained and strengthened. What are you […]
Walk Your Own Path by Travis Rumsey
Our culture teaches us that we should be strong and resilient. Weakness is frowned upon, and asking for help is seen as a weakness. Am I telling you anything new yet? I’m all for asking for help – but only as a concept apparently, because I’m terrible at asking others for help. It’s just not […]
Adapting to a Changing World by Vija Rogozina
We live in a paradox: change is the only constant yet human psyche resists change. Ability to adapt to new circumstances has always been a powerful driving force of human evolution. Yet human brain finds comfort in the sense of predictability, perceiving the unknown as a threat. We tend to cling to the known undesirable […]
Lisa’s Note of the Day: Hormones, Neurotransmitters, and Brains Oh MY!
As we know our brains and emotions are intimately linked in a dance facilitated by hormones, neurotransmitters, and a myriad other stimuli. So it stands to reason that if women experience a radical hormonal flux each month, that their brains might respond accordingly. Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz, author of The New Feminine Brain notes that “before ovulation, […]
Lisa’s Note of the Day: Inner Navigation
We spend lots of time learning how to navigate people, things, situations, environments and any other external influence we can think of. But it is the inner navigation, called interoception, that can be pivotal in our ability to heal and be compassionate in the world. The quiet information and stories our nervous systems tell us […]
Lisa’s Note of the day: Mindfulness
Loneliness and social isolation can be a major contributor to some common neuro-degenerative diseases like alzheimers. A new study led by Carnegie Mellon University’s J. David Creswell offers the first evidence that mindfulness meditation reduces loneliness in older adults. If meditation has such amazing preventative health benefits, then which five minutes are you setting aside today […]
