What if your lunch today included blueberries, dark chocolate, pistachios, and a glass of Port or red wine? Would you feel indulgent, perhaps even a tad bit guilty? Think again! According to Dr. Eric Braverman consuming foods with resveratrol, a…
The time has come for politics to recognize the magic of both compassion and neuroplasticity! "The fact that our brain is always changing means we're not locked in to having the stress superhighway built into our nervous system...The cutting-edge research…
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.…
In studies done in 2005 is was shown that when faced with uncertainty we become limited and take less risks, often creating a perception of "worst case scenario". In the Ellsberg Paradox groups were presented with this task. They were…
According to Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, author of Mindsight, using words to describe and label your internal world can actually be useful for right-left brain integration and balance. The right hemisphere tends to be associated to the emotion-generting areas and…
There are many different ways to stimulate brain activity through electrical, mechanical, and frequency manipulation. Yet, there is a simple and practical way to use the technology at arm's reach to help you calm down your fight-or-flight center and engage…
The prefrontal cortex is involved with most of our higher order thought functions like patience, goal setting, motivation, empathy, problem solving and much more. The amygdala is involved in more reactive and quicker responses like fight-or-flight, emotional arousal, and survival…
The more we exercise an area of our brain, the more neural pathways we grow which increases the thickness of the gray matter. It's almost like building muscles; the more you use a muscle the more it becomes the one…
Our amygdala is masterful at creating imagery that imbued with vivid emotional charge. In fact, it's expert in the ones relating to fear and survival. Our hippocampus likes to store these charged stories and reference them easily when a current…
According to the personal account of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's massive stroke recovery in My Stroke of Insight, she notes that during the eight years of living mostly with right-brain functioning that she was constantly in a state of bliss.…
