Understanding and Changing Behaviors are not the Same What works when you are trying to change your autonomic nervous system’s reaction to events and situations? As I pointed out in part 1 of this series, (see earlier blog post here) there is a reason your...
Why Bottom-Up not Top-Down May Work for Mental Health! Today is World Mental Health Day. Perhaps we should rename this as “The Role of the Nervous System World Mental Health Day.” Here is what I have learned through my own mental health healing journey. When I was in...
What Brought You to the Yoga Mat? If I took a poll at my yoga classes that I teach in person or online, I would guess that 60 percent of the students want to feel better in their bodies and 25 percent want to feel better in their psyche including mental, emotional and...
Human behavior is revealed in this disturbing TV series! I have been watching the Amazon Prime Series “The Man in the High Castle”. As I am witnessing this riveting and disturbing fictional account of what life would have been like in the U.S. had the Axis Powers of...
Some Habits Serve Us and Some Don’t! Can you name one thing that you do repeatedly without thinking? I can name quite a few that serve me daily: brushing my teeth in the morning and night, taking my vitamins three times each day, drinking only water daily,...
The differences between attitudes and emotions are subtle but important! Emotions are quite fleeting. They come and go like the wind but have profound effects on our health. Emotions have been shown to release up to 1200 different chemicals in our bodies. Depleting or...
