People with an enlarged amygdala suffer serious conditions. From high anxiety to reactive behavior and a host of physical illness, overactive fight-or-flight triggers create significant suffering. Still, this doesn't mean they must suffer forever.
Traditional dream analysis is good for self-evaluation, but if you want to gain everything you can from your dreams, it's better to use them the way nature intended. In this video, I review the reasons we dream. I also review the best way to use our dreams to improve our lives. Discover the full potential of who you can be when you understand the nature of dreams.
In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone our conversation about the amygdala and talk about implicit emotion. In honor of the #blacklivesmatter movement, tonight I will talk about anger, hate, and prejudice. Education is power and understanding why hate occurs is the best way to eliminate it. All proceeds collected from this presentation should go directly to the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
The neurons that form our thoughts are adopted from our ancestors. During our first nine years of life, we modify the pairing of those neurons to form base survival patterns, survival patterns that can become a cycle of relived behavior. In our rapidly evolving world, following the preset patterns of your parents actually impedes the safety it was designed to create. In this week's video, I talk about these patterns and how to overcome them.
While trauma may be the source of fight-or-flight triggers in your brain, it is not the trauma itself that causes the trigger to activate. The brain is a machine and like any well-running machine, it has rules and the most fundamental of all its rules is the rule it has to keep you safe. It's there to prevent trauma, not relive it. So, why then, do we revisit places of suffering? Join me for the next 30 minutes and I'll tell you.
We all know reading is good for the brain, but what we read and when is essential to developing healthy brain function. In this video, I review the first three stages of consciousness and what to read in each, to create the healthiest brain function possible.
If you are seeking fulfillment or desire a more purpose-driven life, if you suffering conditions like addiction, depression, or high levels of stress from work or relationship issues, if your condition is more severe like PTSD, cancer or a traumatic brain injury, it is natural to want more. Suffering happens – for some more than others – but suffering is not inherent to who you are.
What causes triggers anyway? Put simply, sensory information - sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell - combines with memories to create chemical reactions in our brain. To have a full understanding of this concept, we cannot think of memories as videos from our past. While they can seem like videos when we access them, memories are actually individually stored data of all our experiences. The videos we imagine to be memory are instances of combined data presented in a way we can comprehend.
Music is truly powerful. It has the ability to calm us when we're stressed, make us happy when we're sad and recall a memory from the deepest recesses of our mind, but do you know the effect all that power is having on your brain? This video digs into the best way to use music to make your brain the best it can be
Explore the nature of how consciousness works. Our conscious mind is never the first part of the brain to fire. Subconscious triggers are what dictate the thoughts and feelings we experience. Don't try to program your subconscious mind. Don't try to control your feelings. Change your brain function and watch the way your experience of life changes in response to what really drives the brain.
