Is Your Head full of Plastic?
In the last few decades the concept of neuroplasticity has taken hold of the science community. We agree now that our brains are malleable, waxing and waning in their structure and function, and ever changeable. NOW we know it’s even more plastic than that! Not only can we birth new brain cells, and strengthen […]
Can we Command our DNA with Our Actions?
The influence of our environment on our DNA is called epigenetics. Dr. Richard Davidson notes in his book The Emotional Life of Your Brain that we have the power to command the traits our DNA expresses through the idea of epigenetics. Dr. Bruce Lipton also illuminates this in his book The Biology of Belief. Basically, our […]
We ARE Magicians
What if you had superhero powers to sculpt reality as you wanted it to be? What if science began to admit such powers? When scientists discovered our gifts of neuroplasticity late in the last century we officially entered the age of the Magician. According to Dr. Robert Scaer, author of 8 Keys to Brain-Body […]
It’s Written All Over Your Face!
In 2001 neurologist Patrik Vuilleumeir found that a person’s amygdala responds in threat mode to the appearance of fearful expressions of others EVEN IF that person is paying attention to something else. The amygdalae’s job is to signal our stress response so that we have valuable stress hormones actively recruiting blood to the large muscle […]
Meditate your Loneliness Away
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 […]
Rewiring the Subconscious
Neuroplasticity is now a scientific house-hold word. It is our superhero power, our ultimate ability for mind control. According to Dr. Bruce Lipton in The Biology of Belief he notes, “I believe the greatest problem we face is that we think we re running our lives with the wishes, desires, and aspirations created by our […]
Taming the Fear Response
Our Amygdala is the cornerstone of our fight-or-flight and fear response. It keeps us safe in emergencies, action-oriented in crisis, and powerful when we have little reserves. It also happens to dominate with use and become our filter for the world over time. The more we exercise fear, the more we view the world through […]
Mindfulness Changing the Political Brain?
The time has come for politics to recognize the magic of both compassion and neuroplasticity! “The fact that our brain is always changing means we’re not locked in to having the stress superhighway built into our nervous system…The cutting-edge research today shows us how mindfulness can help us reshape our brain and nervous system…Now studies […]
Our Truths at War
Each of us vacillates between truths battling for attention and dominion: closeness and solitude, autonomy and independence, caregiving and mastery, certainty and uncertainty, and the list goes on. According to Dr. Daniel Siegel “Mindsight (mindfulness or meditation) permits us to embrace these states as healthy dimensions of a layered life instead of parts of ourselves […]
