Feeling Good Creates Lasting Memories

What if you could squeeze all the richness and vitality out of your experiences and program that into your memories so that each time you remembered it you accessed vivid and alive detail?   What would you choose to hold onto? What would you then pay attention to? It has been proposed that stimulating dopamine, […]

Nirvana, Located in our Brains?

Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor is a remarkable individual who tours the world discussing the devastating and enlightening effects of the massive stroke that annihilated the left hemisphere of her brain.  With only her right hemisphere online for many years she notes, “No longer capable of perceiving temperature, vibration, pain, or proprioceptions (position of your limbs), your […]

False Demons

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 situation only vaguely resembles a previous threatening one.  We trigger often at the memory of […]