The Polyvagal Breakthrough for Pain & Anxiety
What if there was an entirely new scientific perspective on what really causes chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and a host of other common conditions ... that was a radical departure from conventional medical thinking? Well, there is new science that focuses on a...
Emotional Detoxification Helps with Physical Toxins Too!
There's a growing awareness concerning the damaging impact of toxins on our health and the need to detoxify. The ever-increasing list of detoxification strategies can include herbs, fasting, special diets and supplements, saunas, colonics, salt rooms, sweat lodges,...
You Can Learn to Dissolve Pain by Training Your Brain!
Since all pain is registered in the brain, you can learn to dissolve both physical and emotional pain with awareness training. Subtle changes in attention styles can create profound changes in how the brain functions. While pain is definitely experienced in the body,...
Heart Coherence Heals Personally, Socially, & Globally!
New research in a variety of scientific fields, like neuroscience, quantum physics, epigenetics, and the electromagnetic fields of the earth, is pointing to new possibilities for healing personally, socially, and globally. Heart coherence, or a pattern of high heart...
Energy Medicine for Anxiety, Depression, & Pain!
A common feature of anxiety, depression, and pain is excessive negative thinking. Unrelenting negative thoughts reflect a neurological state that underlies these all too common conditions. Energy Medicine tools can be very effective for restoring neurological order...
Energy Medicine: Where Physics, Neuroscience, & Self-Healing Merge
One of the biggest obstacles to self-healing is our belief about whether or not self-healing is possible. I find that for most people it’s easier to believe in an external agent, like a drug, vitamin, herb, healer, or healing technique, than in our own inherent healing capacity.
Laser Acupuncture Lights Up Your Brain
Laser acupuncture has been shown to have very specific influences on brain function, via functional MRI imaging, akin to the brain stimulating influences observed with the traditional needling of points. There are two points around this research on laser acupuncture...
Heartburn, Acid Reflux, and GERD
Acid reflux, GERD, and heartburn are big business. The acid blockers like Nexium and Prilosec that are commonly prescribed to treat these conditions are often both unnecessary and potentially dangerous. Studies show that these proton pump inhibitors can cause...
The L.A.A.S.E.R. Protocol Mini Course
This post offers step-by-step instructions for how to use my self-care protocol called L.A.A.S.E.R. This protocol combines some of the awareness skills from the SomaSensing program with laser acupuncture that's designed for you to perform on yourself or a loved one as...
Laser Acupuncture Mimics Your Body’s Wisdom
Do you know that your body uses coherent light ... laser light ... to orchestrate all of your body's healing and repair functions? Biophysicists tell us that our body uses photons … bundles of light traveling at the speed of light … to direct the incomprehensibly...
What Links Prostatitis and Female Pelvic Pain?
One common link between prostatitis and female pelvic pain is that both are often misdiagnosed, inadequately treated, and can linger for months or years. Another connection they share is the mistaken belief that these conditions are caused by infections and...
Vagal Health: A Revolution in Healthcare is Coming
We often experiment with doctors, diets, drugs, supplements ... whatever ... trying to find relief without knowing what's really causing our problems. Why don't we treat the cause of illness rather than experimenting with symptom relief? The reason that we get...
Your Beliefs Control Your Biology
I can hear Deepak Chopra, M.D. saying that the purpose of the human nervous system is to make your beliefs come true. If that's true, it would be wise to examine your beliefs carefully. I can also hear cell biologist Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., who authored The Biology of...
Your Body’s Wisdom is Your Best Medicine – Pt. 2
In part one of this post, we explored the indispensable role that feelings play in your healing and wholeness. We looked at feelings as a right brain expression of your body's wisdom. When we connect with feelings we activate the body's ability to repair and heal...
Your Body’s Wisdom is Your Best Medicine – Pt. 1
Many of us have a habit of ignoring the feeling messages coming from our bodies. We often interpret feelings as symptoms to be controlled or avoided rather than as helpful messages from your body's wisdom. We tend to value and trust our left brain intellect and...
MindBody Medicine 101 – Part 3
This is part 3 of a 3 part post on MindBody Medicine. In the previous posts, we looked at the stress-related nature of most chronic pain and illness and how mindbody approaches to healing differed from conventional methods. In this brief post we'll explore the...
MindBody Medicine 101- Part 2
This is part 2 of a 3 part post giving an overview of MindBody Medicine. In part 1 we discussed how the stress response is the primary cause of most chronic pain and illness. In this post, we'll explore how and why mindbody approaches can be successful where...
MindBody Medicine 101- Part 1
MindBody Medicine is an emerging field that includes the mind in the treatment of physical pain and illness. It also includes an awareness of the body in the treatment of mental, emotional, or spiritual issues. The mind and body are seen as an indivisible mindbody...
The Biology of Surrender & Letting Go
For me, ‘surrender’ equates with letting go, trusting, and essentially getting out of my own way. This surrender, this letting go helps to clear the way for a larger something within me to emerge. Call it an inner voice, intuition, or spiritual guidance, this larger...
You Can Control Your Genes
The older I get the more aware I've become of how the powers that be try to manipulate me. I've learned that for the most part things aren't what they seem. The government, network news, and the medical industry lie (or conceal the truth) on a regular basis in an...