Harnessing the Power of Choice: Know Your Monkey Mind by Susan Aplin Pogue, CNSF
I’ve always loved the phrase “monkey mind.” It evokes so many vivid pictures – you with a tail bouncing back and forth between your legs, not moving anywhere for all your movements; millions of monkeys unleashed in your brain running around like crazy grabbing all good thoughts and gobbling them up like bananas; a creepy […]
How to Release Unnecessary Stress by Danielle Rachlin, CNSF
We’re all familiar with the idea that stress is bad for our health. But what’s actually going on in our cells when we consistently have stress hormones sitting in our body? Stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol are released during the body’s stress response to help the body prepare to fight or flee. However, throughout […]
5 Anxiety Tips from a Brain Hemorrhage Survivor by Kavita Basi
Anxiety – what is this? There are so many different levels of Anxiety and some can be so severe that they lead to a panic attack. If you haven’t experienced this, it can be so overwhelming and almost feel like a heart attack. My write-up this month is to share one of my personal anxiety […]
Obstacle in your life? Sculpting it Out by: Jody Domerstad
Throughout our life we will be faced with various obstacles such as projects at work, an illness, an uncertainty in our life causing us confusion and possibly a major transition in which we don’t know where to go or what to do. When anything in our life occurs that we are unfamiliar with, it can […]
Talk to your Dis-ease by: Jody Domerstad
What if we befriended ailments, dis-eases, fears, and anxieties? Over the past few years as my health grew worse, numerous illnesses took host in my body and slowly started to affect my mind. After seeing doctor after doctor no one could figure out exactly nor nail down a specific treatment. Then one day my […]
Holiday Coping Strategies for Stressed Out Parents by Jennifer Scott
Getting ready for the holidays can be overwhelming for people who lead busy lives, manage careers and have children to raise. Between all the shopping and planning family get-togethers, there’s a house to decorate and a Christmas tree to trim. Men and women who are normally unflappable find themselves stressed out and unable to simply […]
5 Things You Might Not Know About Neurosculpting® by: Megan Winkler
So you’ve heard about Neurosculpting® but you aren’t sure what it is. Maybe you imagine a clay brain and someone sculpting lines and paths through it with a rasp. Perhaps it sounds completely foreign and strange. In the simplest terms, Neurosculpting® is the integration of neuroscience and meditation, but that doesn’t even begin to explain […]
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 […]
Stress is Killing You
Are you setting yourself up for a stress related disease? Are you shortening your own lifespan? Over time, the allostatic load of stress on the body can no longer be mitigated by the sympathetic nervous system. We end up with impaired immunity, atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, bone demineralization, atrophy of brain nerve cells, hippocampus damage, growth […]
Physiological effects of Transcendental Meditation
It seems like it should almost be common knowledge that meditation has direct and beneficial physiological effects and vast health benefits, yet there are still many who either don’t know this, pretend it’s not validated by science, or deny its efficacy in their own lives. This concept is nothing new, nor is the scientific proof […]
