We live in a paradox: change is the only constant yet human psyche resists change. Ability to adapt to new circumstances has always been a powerful driving force of human evolution. Yet human brain finds comfort in the sense of…
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…
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…
Loneliness and social isolation can be a major contributor to some common neuro-degenerative diseases like alzheimers. A new study led by Carnegie Mellon University's J. David Creswell offers the first evidence that mindfulness meditation reduces loneliness in older adults. If meditation…
You know how you can hear the same idea over and over, but suddenly someone says it in a way that you finally go, “Oh! Now I get it!”? This happened to me with one of my favorite Buddhist authors,…
Your thoughts and perception create the environment of the brain and vice versa. It’s the chicken and egg conundrum–is the thought the signal for the strss response, or is the brain chemistry the signal for the thought? No matter which…
The Insula is important in our social brains. It's involved with things like processing events in the future based on our current body states, and it is active when dealing with pride and disgust. Studies published in last year's Journal…
Like most of us, I spend a ton of time with my community or just out and about the town. In the past, the holidays would sneak up and before I knew it, HA CHU! I would get so run…
Neurosculpting Note of the Day: Are you in unconscious blindness? David Eagleman, Neuroscientist, notes in "Incognito" that "to see something you must attend to it." Here's a neat experiment I do with my law enforcement workshops. I show a video…
Over the past few months, I have been receiving messages to slow down from random people and from different situations, so I’ve been reflecting a lot upon this lately. Here in the U.S., a lot of us are pressured to…
