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Latest Headlines

By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Hearing Voices and Seeing Visions: What to do?
Once upon a time, in most of the world's societies, hearing voices and seeing visions was honored and desired. In contemporary, modern culture it has become the one symptom that allows an immediate diagnosis of a psychotic disorder. In this essay, I write about the downside of pathologizing voices, while still acknowledging that many people suffer enormously from voices and negative visions. I describe how to be healing.

By Rob Kall
Lewis Mehl-Madrona Using Story to Heal in Psychiatry

By Todd Kashdan
The Problem with Happiness
Asked what is the fundamental objective of life, the vast majority of people answer quickly and definitively -- happiness. Their lives are organized around trying to be happy. Sounds good, right? Sounds even better when you read about the scientific benefits linked to happiness.

By Rob Kall
John Taylor Gatto, author Dumbing Us Down and Weapons of Mass Instruction

a wide ranging discussion on the problems with the American Education system, or as Gatto clarifies-- compulsory schooling, which is not the same as education.

By Rob Kall
Rae Tattenbaum; Enabling Optimal Performance in Kids, Performers... and spiritual approaches and integration

we cover a lot of ground-- ADD ADHD kids, optimal performance for performers... spiritual approaches and integration

By Rob Kall
Robert Thatcher Advances in Understanding the Brain, Z-Score Neurofeedback, Why EEG is More Important than ever

in a wide ranging interview, Dr. Bob Thatcher shares some early neurofeedback and qEEG history, some visions of the future and summarizes some of the insights billions in brain research have yielded.

By Vidya Bolz
Trauma, Health and Neurofeedback
summary of Dr. Robert Scaer's excellent video on his work on trauma and how it is stored in neural networks

By Lynda Thompson
Asperger Syndrome or ADHD
The traits of someone with Asperger Syndrome overlap with ADHD in terms of poor attention and impulsive behaviour so these children are often diagnosed as ADHD.

By Rob Kall
Lynda Thompson; ADD, Autistic Spectrum, Asperger Syndrome

discussion of neurofeedback and biofeedback for ADD, ADHD, Aspergers, Autism, autistic spectrum disorders

By Hyla Cass
Are Cell Phones and Wi-Fi Hazardous to Your Health?
The latest form of environmental pollution -- and one that industry, government and wireless consumers don't like to acknowledge -- may be the most devastating threat to health yet: electromagnetic fields (EMFs).

By Rob Kall
Stress Check Biofeedback Card on Doctor OZ show

The Stress Check Biofeedback card was used on the Doctor Oz show today, as a tool for tracking stress level. Video and transcript.

By Joan Brunwasser
"Life in the Balance, A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia"

The neural pathways are disorganized, like some fantastically complex highway system with overpasses and intersections,on-ramps and exit ramps,all leading nowhere.A thought forms, it gets sent down the pike, only to get lost in some cul-de-sac where it spins like a whirling dervish.Sometimes the thoughts will finally spin out of the cul-de-sac and find expression; often,they simply spin themselves out like a spent whirlwind.

By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Cancer and Coyote Magic in Woodstock
I reflect upon the stories people create to explain their cancer and how some of these stories can be used to make them suffer even further. I wrote about Sarah, a woman with lung cancer who attended a workshop I co-led with my friend, Peter Blum. Sarah suffered enormously from believing that if she did everything "right", she would get well and her cancer would go away. It wasn't. Therefore, she was bad. What do we do?

By press release
Army looking at Biofeedback, Yoga, Acupuncture to Treat Pain

The task force visited 28 military, Veterans Affairs and civilian medical centers between October and January to observe treatment capabilities and best practices.

By Rob Kall
Rick Hanson; Co-author; Buddha's Brain;The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, love and wisdom

a great interview with the co-author of a very extraordinary, must read book.

Textbook of Neurofeedback, EEG Biofeedback, qEEG and Brain Self Regulation
e-book by Rob Kall and Joe Kamiya with 26 chapters

By Rob Kall
Robert Whitaker author Anatomy of An Epidemic; How Psychiatry Failed and Betrayed America, killing 1000s, Disabling Millions

The history of modern psychiatry is a horror story. Long term studies of psychiatric drugs show they not only don't work, they destroy lives or even shorten them by decades. This is based on data and facts

By Judith Acosta
Beyond Biofeedback: How Words Can Help Children Heal
Children learn who they are in the world via an organic form of biofeedback. Everything we say and do communicates and that communication is received by them not only cognitively but, perhaps more importantly, physiologically and genetically.

By Joan Brunwasser
John Robbins on "The New Good Life - Living Better Than Ever In an Age of Less"

One of the reasons I wrote my latest book is to provide people with simple, easy and inexpensive suggestions on how to raise their quality of life while lowering their cost of living, and at the same time lowering their ecological footprint. Learning to live with respect for ourselves and the whole earth community is no easy task in a culture that has become as out of balance as ours has.

By Warren Davies
What is Happiness?
How would you define happiness? Is it an emotion? A state of mind? A decision? Is it a reaction to things that happen to us, like pain, or is it something we can create

By Hyla Cass
Nutrients to Unplug and Recharge Your Body and Mind
Stress seems inevitable, and takes its toll on our health and well-being. Do you recognize any of these signs?

By David Siever
The Use of Audio-Visual Entrainment for the Treatment of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
A review of the research regarding audio-visual entrainment for the treatment of ADD/ADHD.

By Dr. Clare Albright
Have You Been Told that Your Pain is All in Your Head?
This article discusses how the brain can store the message of pain after an injury has already healed in the body.

By Jon Rhodes
So What Is Hypnosis?
This article attempts to explain what hypnosis is.

By Joan Brunwasser
Documentary film OPERATION: Emotional Freedom offers "The Answer" for treating veterans with PTSD

This is the first feature-length documentary on energy psychology and along with featuring many of the preeminent practitioners in EP including Gary Craig, the founder of EFT and Carol Look, PhD the film is being sold and shown worldwide in over 30 countries. On July 21st the film was included in a presentation to the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

By Joan Brunwasser
Omega Institute's Elizabeth Lesser on "Broken Open" and Personal Transformation

The hardest aspect of memoir is that it involves writing about not only oneself, but also about the people in one's life. My children, my parents, my husband, my ex-husband, my friends: none of them asked to be characters in my book. I am sure I caused discomfort for some of the folks in my life. But I did it for a reason that I still feel clear and good about.

By Rob Kall
Stephen Sideroff, Ph.D. Neurofeedback and Reslience, Addiction, Sports Psychology, Chronic Pain and more

Neurofeedback, addiction, resilience, Pain, Sports Psychology and more discussed.

By Siegfried Othmer, Ph.D.
Who Owns Self-Regulation?

We are moving into an age where people are taking responsibility for their own well-being, and that by now includes the domain of most psychopharmacological agents. It will most certainly also include the self-regulation technologies.

 

Latest Articles

Celiac Blues and Greens
Celiac disease,invisible, undiagnosed, could be playing havoc with your physical and mental well-being. Learn to listen to your body and you can heal it.

Why Learn Neuroscience?
A student asked me why she needed to know neuroscience. Here is my answer. I argue that science is the new story with which we must contend. If we do not know the contemporary stories of science, they will be used against us. The actual stories being told today about the brain are quite uplifting, full of hope. They include neuroplasticity and epigenetics. If we know these stories we can fight against bad neuroscience.

What health treatment system treats multiple symptoms simultaneously?

Acupuncture and herbal medicine holds secrets to returning you to your optimum vitality. Do you want to feel dramatically physically and emotionally better? Then Acupuncture and herbal medicine is for you. Here's 4 Reasons Why:

Narrative Interviewing and Behavioral Change
In this article, I talk about the importance of finding the stories behind behaviors that are adverse to health. Health behavior is not rational, but is guided by stories that people have about how life should be lived. Many times they do not realize what these stories are, since they are from their earlier years and are so ingrained as to be outside awareness. I show how changing story allows people to change diet.

Natural Solutions To Sleep Deprivation
I'm seeing increasing numbers of patients with sleep problems, ranging from difficulty in falling asleep, to being unable to sleep soundly through the night. Rather than waking up in the morning restored and rejuvenated, they are dragging themselves out of bed, facing another day feeling drained and exhausted.

The Psychology of Fear
On fear as feeling and fear as emotion and the study of fear in anxiety and phobia

By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Explanatory Plurarlism
I ask the question, what if all knowledge existed in the form of stories and all stories were true? If we practiced in this manner, as advocated by Uncle Albert, an aboriginal elder, how would we act? The notion of explanatory pleuralism argues that explanatory stories on any particular level do not have to relate to any other level of explanation; rather they must correspond to the level of which they are explaining.

By Magili Quinn
Motherly Love
Reflection of a new mother

By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Ethics for Mental Health
The history of the mental health industry involves the management of people who are socially unacceptable, who are defined as excessively different from the rest of us, who live at the extremes of emotions and behaviors. How we treat these people depends upon the stories we carry about how they came to be the way they are. Contemporary stories are impoverished and lead to mistreatment of those who suffer.

By Dr. Kathleen Albertson, L. Ac., PhD
The four Stages of Fatigue: Which one are you in? How can TCM combat it?
Did you know that fatigue slowly expresses itself in four stages in your body? Did you know that it crawls deeper and deeper deteriorating all of your key organ systems? Fatigue has an uncanny way of starting out as an occasional situation that we assume will go away. Often, it doesn't. We do not slow down and get the rest we need---we merely push ourselves harder. At what expense? TCM helps.

By Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan
Health Care Needs a Fundamentally New Approach
Health of man is considered to have the components of physical, mental and social well-being. The state of spiritual health of an individual being intangible is left out. This has perforce reduced the consideration of man as a sum of parts, whose malfunction lead to a diseased state. Recent advances in psychology and psychoneuroimmunology now suggest that spiritual health needs to be rightfully included in Health Care matters.

By Dr. Kathleen Albertson, L. Ac., PhD
Amenorrhea: What does not having a menstrual cycle mean?
Amenorrhea means "no menstrual flow" (absence of menstruation). In Chinese medicine, it refers to "no moon." Today it is more important than ever to understand TCM (Traditional Chinese medicine which includes acupuncture and herbal medicine) as well as Western medicine. Today's reality integrates these two schools of thought to improve patient care. TCM gets to the root cause naturally with out the harsh affects of drugs.

 

Best News Links from the Web

New York Times: Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention

The NY Times reports that EEG Biofeedback is gaining greater acceptance, applied to ADD/ADHD, autism, increasing attention, focusing the aging brain...

Stress card as seen on Dr. Oz Show

Easy to read Stress Check Magic Word super biosquares with words which "light up" depending on the temperature with 4 different ranges and 1.25 degree Fahrenheit resolution. They read calm (90-95) normal (85-90) tense (80-85,) stressed (75-80). 30-mil plastic white card with metallic foil/ink in either blue, red, green, silver or gold.

What's your idea to BodyShock the Future?
With obesity, diabetes, and chronic disease rampaging populations around the world, Institute for the Future (IFTF) is turning up the volume on global well-being. Launching today, IFTF's BodyShock is the first annual competition with an urgent challenge to recruit crowdsourced designs and solutions for better health--to remake the future by rebooting the present.

 

 

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