In a left-brain society we often value rationale over feelings--trying to logic the away, or stuff the so we can remain productive. Neurologist Antonio Damasio empahsized that feelings are actually somatic markers. That their role was to help inform our…
Our nervous system is a miraculous and complex network of information and control mechanisms. Our SNS (sympathetic nervous system) readies us for action, to mobilize, to activate, charge, fight or flea..among many other things. Our PNS (parasympathetic nervous system) calms…
Dr. David Perlmutter and Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. note in Power Up Your Brain that Neural networks are created by focused, engaged stimulation. . .the choices you make actually do influence the physical structures, the neural networks, in your brain. 'Experience…
How would you approach life differently if you were the first domino in an infinitely long chain of life events? What if each and every action, each and ever thought, rippled out in powerful waves from your being to touch…
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…
Each of us vacillates between truths battling for attention and dominion: closeness and solitude, autonomy and independence, caregiving and mastery, certainty and uncertainty, and the list goes on. According to Dr. Daniel Siegel "Mindsight (mindfulness or meditation) permits us to…
Our neurons are decisive and action oriented. There's no maybe in their language. They decide to either fire, or not and there's no in between. HOW they decide this is a wonderful miracle. Each neuron has a threshold of stimulation…
