Meditation and Neuroplasticity Training May Help Reduce Stress and Stop the Cycle of Addiction by Patrick Bailey

Stress is a word many people throw around casually. Many do not realize its very real physical and mental ramifications. Stress is no excuse for addiction, but it can contribute to it. If you or someone you care about is struggling with addiction and can’t seem to escape the cycle of use, there is help […]

Fill the Well: Self-Care by Kelley Seriano, CNSF

We all have a ton to get done in a day. The ego can keep our foot on the gas pushing harder and harder. Running from work to working out to doing doing doing. And sometimes it’s not until we crash or get sick that we realize rest and relaxation is needed. It’s a very […]

Navigating Pet Loss Grief Through Neurosculpting® by Andrea Floyd

What reactions does the word “Grief” bring up in your mind and body? How will a grief that you experience potentially change you? Grief can be defined as the painful emotional and sometimes physical response to the loss of a loved one. I feel that we humans are uncomfortable with grief on a profound level. […]

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 […]

Three Key Techniques for Veterans Dealing with PTSD

Every year on Veterans Day we celebrate the contributions that our brothers and sisters in the military have made to our society. However, there’s another discussion that might even supersede the celebration: How we help veterans manage their experiences (and, trauma) during and after their enlistment? The media is full of stories of veterans who […]

You Are NOT a Victim

Autonomy and control wire into our brains directly into the reward center: the ventral striatum. When we perceive we don’t have control, we deactivate the reward center and activate the pain/stress pathway. In 2009 the Journal of Psychosomatic Research published this finding: helplessness accounted for a 5-times greater risk of hypertension than any other life factor, […]

Stress is Killing You

Are you setting yourself up for a stress related disease?  Are you shortening your own lifespan?  Over time, the allostatic load of stress on the body can no longer be mitigated by the sympathetic nervous system. We end up with impaired immunity, atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, bone demineralization, atrophy of brain nerve cells, hippocampus damage, growth […]

Are You Training Your Brain to Beat Depression?

It actually seems like it should be a no-brainer (pardon the pun) at this point, but science is still experimenting with using positive imagery to beat depression.  Fortunately, they are still finding that it does.  The most interesting new finding in this study is that positive imagery coupled with the knowledge of WHERE in the […]

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 […]