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,…
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…
Change. Change, whether positive or negative, often brings up levels of uncertainty which wire into our brains to trigger a threat response. But we can rewire that response and navigate our changing world differently. By noticing each small accomplishment or…
Have you discovered the New Beliefs, New Brain Podcast with Lisa Wimberger, Founder of the Neurosculpting Institute? This podcast is filled with new ideas, empowering and insightful tips, tools and topics on how the brain, body and spirit relate to…
Experiences create the "repeated neural firing that can lead to gene expression, protein production, and changes in the regulation and structural connections in the brain." (Dr. Daniel Siegel, 2010) BUT the brain is not just housed in the skull. We…
Which brain are you ruled by? Is your life defined by survival struggle and emotionally difficult relationships -- those attributes map to your limbic brain. Does your intellect get in the way of your joy so that you can't experience…
There are many affirmations, positive talks, YouTube links and spiritual texts out there that one can use to uplift or become positive, that can assist in changing your state, for a moment or for a few days. I enjoy using…
Stress. We all experience it. In fact you could go so far as to say in our modern world, many of us experience it as an inevitable part of this human journey. That sounds a little depressing until we realize…
Did you know how easy it is to develop false memories? In fact, we are living in a time of false memory creation just like in George Orwell's Animal Farm In the Journal of Consumer Research in a study done in…
