Befriending Fear by: Travis Rumsey

This time of year, we love playing with fear.  Some of us love terrifying ourselves at haunted houses, while others get a thrill out of curling up under the covers and watching a scary movie.   During the rest of the year, there is no shortage of other ways to scare ourselves; roller coasters, rock climbing, […]

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: 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Are Positive Affirmations Enough? By: Adena Shepherd

There are many affirmations, positive talks, YouTube links and spiritual texts out there that one can use to uplift or become positive, that can assist in changing your state, for a moment or for a few days. I enjoy using these resources as fun tools in changing my perceptions of what I can have, be […]

Stress is inevitable. The Struggle is Optional by: Tamme Buckner

Stress. We all experience it. In fact you could go so far as to say in our modern world, many of us experience it as an inevitable part of this human journey. That sounds a little depressing until we realize that there is a slice of empowerment in the fact that the struggle from stress […]