In the movie Moonstruck (1987), there is a classic exchange between Ronny (Nicolas Cage) and Loretta (Cher). Ronny tells Loretta that he is in love with her after waking up next to each other in bed. Loretta responds with a double and quite invigorating slap to Ronny’s cheek and quickly tells him to ‘Snap out […]
Our magnificent brain has great power. When most active, in a defensive emergency stand-by; it’s primary mission encompasses Maslow’s base hierarchy; survival, ego, me-me-me! Beyond that, it seeks constant stimulation, from coffee to dangerous self destructive behaviors. When we allow this defensive brain to think it’s our primary reality, rather than simply a key part […]
Neurophysicist Christian Opitz trys Alphabiotics Neurophysicist Christian Opitz, “In my opinion and experience, Alphabiotics is the single most effective method to directly eliminate burnout (shock) from the deep limbic system, the storehouse of our survival urges.” The stress response distorts our perception of life by inserting a painfully personal subjectivity to events, i.e. as indications […]
Consider the plight of Atlantic salmon; swimming, leaping and flopping their way upstream to spawn. As they exert themselves at this high rate, levels of cortisol (the body’s primary stress hormone) surge through every body system to help provide energy and drive the fight-or-flight response that keeps them going. If the salmon could stop to […]
U.S. News & World Report Volume 126, Issue 9 Melancholy Nation. (March 8,1999) Depression is on the rise, despite Prozac. For some time, specialists have divided depression into two categories. The first, called “melancholic depression,” is marked by hyperarousal in the brain, a sort of chronic stress response that can’t turn off and that makes […]