Healing
The merry-go-round of mental health
Stay positive, don’t give up. There is light at the end of the tunnel. We hear this all the time! Even when things are really bad we expect darkness to crawls back to its corner and hide it’s ugly face. Truth is we cannot hide our darkness behind positive affirmations. Darkness often emerges from parts…
Read MoreOutsource thinking to the subconscious
When identical twin Brenton Gurney, 38, spoke to me about having a premonitions when his brother was in a life threatening situation, I did not think much of it. Brenton had come to our brain research lab to undergo a series of psychological and cognitive tests including EEG and MRI. While I was…
Read MoreThe Rising – I stand with you
We build our hopes and dreams from that which creates an apocalyptic future. The starving man does not think of fixing the world’s problems. His has his own mouth to feed. Yet it is not he who starves, it is the land that has been striped of its natural abundance. We decimated the land to draw the cursed…
Read MoreEnd of an Affair
There was no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Why then, during all this time do I beseech? The question conflicts with the mind. The answer appears without it. You only know yourself when you go beyond your limits. In a fraction of a second, you can become noone. And this being something new, can lead to an adventure…
Read MoreThe dilemma of the living
To be born is a miracle. Then what? The truth is beautiful but terrible. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. The trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. – Dumbledore. In life we suffer. We suffer because we distract ourselves…
Read MoreInstinct – Find It In You
Please note – words in bold are explained in the glossary section below. Since the moment the Animal is born in the Wilderness, it is subjected to the laws of nature. In order to survive, the Animal discovers that it has been granted a musculo-skeletal structure. By instinct, the Animal starts moving towards food. The Animal uses its senses…
Read MoreThe Awakening – Tarzan to Neo
In 1971, Mr. Ian Waterman, age 19 at the time, had a spontaneous autoimmune reaction. 3 days later IW woke up in hospital and came to the shocking realization that he had “lost his body”. IW was diagnosed with Deafferentation – a complete loss of proprioceptive feedback (a background process constantly updating the position of our body in space). Over…
Read MoreDisconnect to Reconnect
What have we gained from our modern existence? What have primitive cultures been in relentless defiance to preserve? Is it fire making, shelter building, hunting and foraging skills? Why look for food when you can buy them? Why make clothes or furniture when these can easily be purchased online? Why gather around a fire when the internet is accessible through…
Read MoreAdaptation – Movement Infrastructure Reboot
The Enigma of the human brain began to unravel in the Inagural talk by Santiago Ramón y Cajal at the International Medical Congress held in Rome in 1894. Cajal was the first to suggest that the flow of information in neurons passes from the axons of the presynaptic cell to the dendrites of the postsynaptic cell – “the law of…
Read MoreThe Human Body – An Instrument for the State of Flow
We work tirelessly to manage our busy lives while taking care of our body acquires a secondary priority. When our body’s take the backseat in our lives, it begins to accumulate physical ailments such as chronic back pain, weak joints and mental aliments such as depression, anxiety and ADHD. By bringing our awareness back into the…
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