In the 1998 movie, City of Angels starring Meg Ryan there is a wonderful line where she is describing the taste of a pear to Nicholas Cage who has never had that experience. From the movie script … ‘Describe it. Like Hemingway. Well, it tastes like … a pear. You don’t know what a pear […]
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 […]
From fashionable Newbury St. in Boston’s historic Back Bay to the sleepy bedroom community of Wellesley, Massachusetts to the town where the Boston Marathon begins – Hopkinton, Massachusetts … The New England Alphabiotic Foundation has been in business for almost a quarter-century.
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 […]
The Integration is a very gentle process. It involves a unique movement of the head that has been performed over a million times without any negative consequences. It is a high level non threatening sensory input into the brain, a way to communicate to the brain in a way it understands. This stress pattern-interrupt allows […]
Studies done for the chiropractic profession have indicated a possible association of neck manipulation with a certain kind of stroke, or vertebral artery dissection. The actual incidence of stroke associated with chiropractic, osteopathic or medical neck manipulation is unknown, the occurrence appears to be rare — 1 in 5.85 million manipulations, based on the clinical […]
Id, Ego, Super-Ego. Foresight, Insight, Hindsight. Higher Self, Self, Lower Self. Beta, Alpha, Delta. Prescient, Parviscient, Nescient. Past, Present, Future. Conscious, Subconscious, Super Conscious… all come into Alphabiotic Integration as well. Dr. Smookler getting his MOJO back with a little help from Dr. Virgil Chrane.