Wait Until Your Father Gets Home!

Remember that statement when you were a kid, and how it filled you with a sense of dread when you were in trouble?  The insula is important in our social brains. It’s involved with processing events in the future based on our current body states, and it deals specifically with pride and disgust. Studies published […]

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 […]

Thoughts influence Matter

Dr. David Perlmutter and Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. note in Power Up Your Brain that Neural networks are created by focused, engaged stimulation. . .the choices you make actually do influence the physical structures, the neural networks, in your brain. ‘Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the  structure and functioning of the nervous […]

The Domino Stress Effect & the 5 Quickest Ways to Beat it.

How would you approach life differently if you were the first domino in an infinitely long chain of life events?  What if each and every action, each and ever thought, rippled out in powerful waves from your being to touch the world around you? Would you consider your words and thoughts more carefully? What if […]

Rewire Your Body’s Hard Drive

Science knows now that we can rewire the brain and grow new neuronal maps. Neural maps are the active circuits through which all thought-forms flow.  They are the pathways of mental engagement and creation.  They’ve found that this happens through our focused attention and experiences HOWEVER it’s been proven that those experiences don’t have to […]