I resent your tone of voice!
Although there can be too much generalization out there about being either right-brained or emotional beings, or left-brained logical beings, one thing seems clear to neuroscience: we default to prosody, or tone of voice, over the semantic meaning of words when push comes to shove. As babies we need to understand tone of voice before […]
Cynicism May be Leading You to Dementia
Do you suspect others have ulterior motives more often than not? Do you feel that others only assist you because they’ll want something in return? If you tend to look at the world through this lens you may be more inclined to develop dementia in your later years! Social Cognitive neuroscience is consistently finding links […]
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 […]
Dropping In? Or Dropping Out?
My journey to Neurosculpting® has been long, winding, contained many detours and more dead-ends than I care to remember. I started my working life as a filmmaker and video producer, (and somehow wound up as a software developer) but had always been fascinated by neuroscience and psychology – essentially anything brain related. For years I […]
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 […]
Rewiring Fear While We Sleep
Fear is a relationship we create with events in our lives. The events are simply moments in time but the fear we cultivate drags those moments from the past into our current lives, causing a cascade of hormonal, emotional, and physiological stress changes in the body. But neuroplasticity gives us the ability to unlink the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Biased by Smell – You’ll be Amazed at how Easily You are Influenced!
In studies, unpleasant odors that either preceded or happened simultaneously with facial expressions (Scientific American Mag) or as subjects read short paragraphs (Eagleman, Incognito) caused individuals to feel disgust in relation to the action they were witnessing or engaged in. Bad smells activate the insula, a center of the brain that registers disgust, and […]
Our Plastic Thoughts
Did you know your brain is plastic! The brain is a substance that can easily be shaped or molded. NY Times best seller Dr. David Perlmutter, author of Grain Brain notes in the foreword of New Beliefs, New Brain that researchers not only demonstrated that the human brain remains in a dynamic sate of renovation, but moreover, […]
