First Steps to Becoming the Leader You Were Meant to Be by Lisa Wimberger

Some of the most complex emotional situations to navigate come from the way we learn or don’t learn to relate to one another. Relationships with individuals and groups are the fundamental building blocks of successful teams and societies and they require a healthy prefrontal cortex (PFC). The PFC is the newest part of the brain […]

5 New Hobbies to Keep Your Brain Active by Amy Michaels

  Most people are not aware that, just like the body, you can exercise the mind by keeping it active. Beyond the usual activities like reading and writing, there are plenty of other ways to maintain an active brain. So this article will look into five hobbies that you might not think of at first […]

How to Re-Wire Our Brains! by Danielle Rachlin, CNSF

We can get stuck in some pretty outdated and unnecessary patterns. Even if we can see that we’ve outgrown these stories, we don’t always see our way out of them. For the answer on how, let’s turn to some basic neuroscience. How the Brain Thinks a Thought Our brains are made up of approximately 100 […]

5 Things You Might Not Know About Neurosculpting® by: Megan Winkler

So you’ve heard about Neurosculpting® but you aren’t sure what it is. Maybe you imagine a clay brain and someone sculpting lines and paths through it with a rasp. Perhaps it sounds completely foreign and strange. In the simplest terms, Neurosculpting® is the integration of neuroscience and meditation, but that doesn’t even begin to explain […]

3 Brain-based Tips for Balance in a Time of Political Inflammation By: Lisa Wimberger

“My side’s right, your side is wrong.” “The state of our country’s health depends on this one moment!” “We can’t have THAT monster in office!” Sound familiar right now? These are the same thoughts we referenced four, eight, 12, 16, 20 years ago, and so on. We are in a time of political fear and […]

5 Facts You Need to Know About Your Brain

Although we’ve been studying it for decades, the human brain remains one of the biggest mysteries in our bodies. The NeurosculptingⓇ Institute was formed to help clients train and shape their brains — and in doing so, we also educate clients about neurobiology and neurophysiology. Here are a handful of surprising facts you might learn […]

3 Simple Practices to Train your Brain, Mitigate Stress and Be in the WOW! – By Shanti Medina

Neuroscience has shown that we can train our brain to create a new mind/body map with the choices we make on how we mitigate stress and subsequently grow a new brain.  In order to make such choices and shifts in our neurology, we need to feel safe and empowered to down-regulate and re-calibrate our nervous […]

Oxytocin – The Dark Side of the Love Molecule

With the recent popularity of neuroscience for public consumption the neurotransmitter Oxytocin has gained the nick-name “The Love Molecule”. Who wouldn’t want more love, right? This neurotransmitter is know to be the bonding chemical released during sex, a mother and child nursing, and during heightened moments of trust. There are oxytocin nasal sprays marketed to […]

It Takes a Village — a Community of Neurons

To be our animated best selves requires us to be in a graceful electro-chemical choreography. All of our actions, thoughts, desires, emotions and behaviors are physiologically the result of networked neural activity in the brain.  One neuron’s “voice” alone does not result in a smile, a hug, or a memory; however that one neuron’s voice singing […]

A Path to Empowerment

There are many paths to personal empowerment. Some are spiritual, others mental or emotional; yet it’s the rare path that enfolds all aspects of our lives into the process.  What if you could invite and engage your analytical self, or more left-brain tendencies, into the process of spiritual expansion without it hijacking each moment of […]