When You Don’t Have Time to Meditate by Danielle Rachlin, CNSF

It’s a common obstacle in anyone’s meditation practice. Whether you meditate every day or you’re still trying to find your groove, sometimes it’s difficult to feel like there’s room on the To-Do list for meditation.   While you’ll see the most benefit from frequent practice of deep meditation, there are ways to access your practice for […]

How to Take in the Good by: Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

The Problem Over millions of years of evolution, it was more important for our ancestors to react to threats than to opportunities. Here’s why: if you live in the wild under dangerous conditions and miss out on a “carrot,” you could go get another one later – but if you fail to avoid a “stick,” […]

3 Simple Practices to Train your Brain, Mitigate Stress and Be in the WOW! – By Shanti Medina

Neuroscience has shown that we can train our brain to create a new mind/body map with the choices we make on how we mitigate stress and subsequently grow a new brain.  In order to make such choices and shifts in our neurology, we need to feel safe and empowered to down-regulate and re-calibrate our nervous […]

Are You Cross-Wired?

It’s proven we can wire neutral events to fearful responses. Ex: a dog barks each time you get a bit of bad news. Soon, you cringe at the dog bark, even if no bad news follows. The auditory cortex delivers the “dog bark” message at the same time as the “bad news” message enters the […]

Your Cranky Mood Could Be Because Your Brain is Bored

Hebb’s Law states that neurons that fire together wire together.  This is the basis of neuroplasticity–our ability to rewire our brains, behaviors, moods and thoughts.  This happens when our brains are signaled to pay attention, like when we’re learning something new.  In this learning environment the brain releases   dopamine and acetylcholine which stamp the […]