I have been trying to distill down the essence of neuroplastic symptoms, to make the understanding and approach more simple. It’s easy to get caught up in complexity of what’s happening in the brain and nervous system and all the possible reasons why one has symptoms. But if we could boil it all down, what […]
Just wanted to let everyone know tomorrow starts the June months classes and we will be exploring the topic of emotions and how to work with them so that we can reduce emotional stress to help reduce neruoplastic symptoms. The classes are both live and recorded so if you can’t make it live, you can […]
My colleague and friend Dr. Schubiner’s new book, Unlearn Your Pain, offers an important and compassionate exploration of chronic pain, anxiety, fatigue, depression, and the powerful connection between the brain and body. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and emerging neuroscience, the book helps readers better understand how stress, emotions, and learned neural pathways can contribute […]
When the brain and nervous system can settle, neuroplastic symptoms can settle. There are very real signs within us that signal we are moving from a stressed sympathetic state to a relaxed parasympathetic state. I go over some of these today that you may see within yourself as you make that transition from sympathetic to […]
I wanted to share this video if you haven’t seen it yet. Whether it be migraines, IBS, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, tinnitus, fatigue, arthritis, or many other neuroplastic conditions, there is one commonality that links all these symptoms under one umbrella. And it relates to your autonomic nervous system (ANS). It is this system that we […]
I wanted to share a practice that I do and have honed over the years to elicit what’s called the relaxation response. When we can get the relaxation response to activate we start to feel as you would imagine, more relaxed, more calm, settled, quiet and to a point of inner stillness. That stillness is […]
I’ve spoke about these 2 branches of the nervous system many times. And the more I think about it, it keeps making more sense and simplifies down what can be a complex process in the brain. Stress from the brain causes neuroplastic symptoms in the body. We know that. How does that filter down into […]
Changing the level of stress we experience can change the level of symptoms we experience. Neuroplastic symptoms are essentially symptoms of stress. So if we can get the stress down on the inside (our brains) and the outside (our lives), we can lower the brain and nervous system stress reactions that create symptoms. Today I […]
How you attend to neuroplastic symptoms can be a powerful mediator. Either increasing or reducing symptoms. This is because attention is a brain mechanism. When one attends to symptoms from a perception of threat and danger, one is likely attending from hypervigilance. Hypervigilance is a real thing that has been shown to not only amplify […]
One of the most amazing things about neuroplastic symptoms is that as bad as they can feel, they are not actually dangerous. The symptoms come from perceptions of threat and danger at the brain level not actual threat and danger like a fracture or acute infection at the body level. If something is a perception […]
