Are You Walking the Talk?
As we engage in our patterns and habits, we reinforce them. We all know that without action talk is cheap. Sometimes that action needs to address our subconscious drives, those elusive mind programs that evade our detection. Dr. Bruce Lipton notes in Spontaneous Evolution that “while our conscious minds may easily learn new life enhancing-information, […]
Ladies, This is your Brain on PMS!
As we know our brains and emotions are intimately linked in a dance facilitated by hormones, neurotransmitters, and a myriad other stimuli. So it stands to reason that if women experience a radical hormonal flux each month, that their brains might respond accordingly. Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz, author of The New Feminine Brain notes that […]
Conscious Delusions
Do you think you’re in control of your life? Well, you are, but not in the way you might have suspected. Dr. Bruce Lipton notes in The Biology of Belief that “the greatest problem we face is that we think we are running our lives with the wishes, desires, and aspirations created by our conscious […]
Navigating the Inner Realms
We spend lots of time learning how to navigate people, things, situations, environments and any other external influence we can think of. But it is the inner navigation, called interoception, that can be pivotal in our ability to heal and be compassionate in the world. The quiet information and stories our nervous systems tell us […]
Brushing Your Teeth to Keep Your Brain Healthy?
Neuroplasticity is our ability to rewire new brain connections, learn new things, and create new neurons. All of this magic keeps us cognitively young, sharp and engaged in life. A key part of this process is long term potentiation (LTP). In order for LTP to happen which is critical for higher level performance, memory encoding, […]
Thoughts Shaping Your World
Neuroplasticity is the ability of our mind to rewire itself. It can manifest as a changing of the strength of the connection between neurons, by adding or removing connections, or by adding new cells. An amazing catalyst for all of this is our perception. When we “perceive” an event in the mind’s eye, even if […]
Anti-depressants vs. Meditation
IF you are on antidepressants…PLEASE understand this post is not meant as a critique of your healing process. Based on many studies, including one published in JAMA in 2010 by Fournier, antidepressants were no more effective in changing serotonin levels than the placebo in mild to moderate depression. HOWEVER, both the placebo and drugs had […]
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 […]
