What do you do when you can't sleep? It seems that doing anything other than taking a sleeping pill is a good idea. It's important to address sleep issues as a priority since sleeping well is an indispensable element for overall healing and well-being. At the recent...
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The Poetry of Healing
I'm fascinated by the science surrounding the mind-body connection. It's a good bet that this fascination might be fueled, at least in part, by being raised in a family where emotional experience wasn't given much conscious attention or value. So for me this science...
Adrenals, Buried Stress, & Your Health!
In the last post I spoke about how the brain responds to stress. In today's blog I'll focus on how the adrenal glands respond to stress and trauma and what you can do to support them. I'll make a distinction between stress and trauma by suggesting that stress is a...
Anxious Thoughts … Your Body is the Solution
A common strategy for quieting anxious thoughts is often more thinking in an attempt to control the mind. I'm going to suggest another, and predictably more fruitful approach, which involves your body. Since anxiety (and stress) either contributes to the creation or...
You Were Born with Biofeedback Equipment
Over fifty years ago the Indian adept Swami Rama changed the history of medical education ... or at least should have. He was invited to the Menninger Institute in the 1960's to assess the influence that his years of yogic training had had on his physiology. He was...
Meditation as Medicine
Did you know that a regular meditative practice can dramatically influence blood pressure, blood sugar, anxiety and so much more ... without the side effects that accompany our more common pharmacological remedies? Research is validating that our bodies possess an...
Addressing the Roots of Illness … Almost Free Lecture
This coming Sunday afternoon in Lakeland I'll be giving a talk about the connection between the Gut, Immune System, and Brain. It will be at the Paint-A-Long Studio at 123 Kentucky Avenue ... from 4:30 pm until 7 pm. The price is $5. I'll be talking about how G.I....
Sleep Heals Your Brain
Researchers have found that amyloid beta ... the protein that contributes to the development of Alzheimer's disease ... was excreted from the brain most efficiently during sleep. A recent study available on the NIH website shows that when we sleep our breathing...
Vaccines: A British Doctor’s Saga
The vaccination debate was staged publicly in Great Britain back in 2007. A British doctor who challenged the conventional wisdom regarding the safety and efficacy of childhood vaccinations was charged by her governing body with serious professional misconduct and...