Is your understanding of your emotional brain affecting your relationship? Do you feel a racing heart, clammy hands, a tightening in our abdomen, and an urge to use our bowels when things are going wrong? To perceive emotion is to receive and interpret information from both external (world) and internal (body) environments and is the starting point to understand your emotional brain. Your senses – sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing – connect you to the world around you, through your physical brain. Perception is the process by which information (events) about the outside world impinges on the sensory organs and is then decoded and interpreted by the brain – resulting in a … [Read more...]

Can you recognize your pain points on the pain timeline? Are you feeling lots of pleasure points or is your life filled with anger, anxiety, guilt, remorse, shame, and regret — what I call stress? We recognize the pain timeline to show visually how pain is present in the past, present and future. Pain perception is about how appraisal triggers arousal (emotional response) in your body. Deepak Chopra explains that cognitive appraisal in the brain arouses only two impulses—pain or pleasure. We all want to avoid pain and experience pleasure.  Therefore, all the complicated emotional states we find ourselves in are because we are unable to obey these basic drives. … [Read more...]

Do you see the glass half-empty or half-full? Which one of these choices will help you be positive and live longer? Ask yourself: what’s the benefit... to yourself, your partner, your children, your family... to be someone who, even under difficult circumstances, sees the proverbial glass as half full rather than half empty? Be positive live longer. Be optimistic.  Are these words we connect with bottom line results?  In most cultures, not really.  It’s surprising, (and positive) how much research and experience is showing us that these attitudes and behaviors really do produce real, bottom line results. How much more bottom line can we get than our own … [Read more...]

?How Chronic Emotional Stress Can Ruin Your Health Learn how to effectively manage your emotional stress and know that there is always reason to hope for improvement in your health What's the most powerful step you can take to manage emotional stress and dramatically improve your health?My answer is this: Learn how to effectively manage emotional stressAll of my clinical and personal experiences over the years have me convinced that no other factor has more influence over your health. Not diet, not exercise, not even how much you sleep.Why is emotional stress is one of the most significant causes of all chronic health challenges?Because your body cannot defend itself against the … [Read more...]