Manage your Pain: Improve your Life and Save Thousands each Year

What is pain? That is a loaded question. Pain overlaps the physical, spiritual, emotional and mental world so pervasively that sometimes we can’t distinguish its origin at all. Consider the heartbreak that makes you nauseous, or the betrayal that gives you a stomach ache, or the broken bone that makes you feel inadequate or worthless. […]

Stepping Bravely into Wholeness – Excerpt from “Neurosculpting”

Are you living fully? Do you end each day with a full exhale knowing that you created each moment with intention, vibrance, and your best self? If your answer is “no”, then you are quite normal. And if you’re tired of being normal, then you can take comfort knowing that in each and every moment […]

There is Power in the Pause

When we are moving too fast, speeding ahead without pause or breath, we can not integrate the lessons and experiences we’ve had.  Without the pause, perhaps we do not assimilate to give our spirits time to expand with seniority.  Our neurology tells us about the importance of this pause.  Neurons fire or don’t fire actions […]

Smoking, Memory Loss, and Aging Your Brain

According to Dr. Eric Braverman, author of Younger Brain, Sharper Mind, we unknowingly effect our brain speed and impair our memory recall circuits.  “A 2004 study in the Journal Neurology showed that over a 5-year period, memory decline for smokers was five times worse than that of nonsmokers…Nicotine is an effective stimulant that can improve […]

Does Fear Define YOUR Comfort Zone?

In studies of the brain’s neurology, fMRIs show that when faced with uncertainty our brains decrease the blood flow to the reward center while increasing blood flow to our emotional circuitry — the limbic brain, priming us for fight-or-flight response.  Conversely, in studies of those with lesions in their orbito prefrontal cortex who couldn’t feel […]