When you were young, you learned ways to feel better when you were upset. The good feeling of relief built a pathway in your brain that helps you repeat the…...

Ask and you shall receive. Everything you have asked for, are asking for, and will ask for, are available to you now. This may sound like new age psychobabble, but the truth…...

Anxiety is caused by our own expectations more than we realize. For example, a pothole in the road causes huge anxiety if you drive right into it, but if you see…...

It’s kind of amazing: right now, what you think and feel, enjoy and suffer, is changing your brain. The brain is the organ that learns, designed by evolution to be…...

Truth is survival! As humanity evolved, an accurate assessment of current reality was essential to our continued existence. Truth-seeking is instinctual and allows for a precise calculation of danger. We employ these…...

Your mind naturally and automatically seeks the knowledge and information it deems important. It is programmed to seek data relevant to your survival.  Since we no longer live in the jungle, relevant is redefined as what is important…...

The title of this practice is a little tongue-in-cheek. What I mean is, most of us – including me – spend time worrying about criticism: past, present, and even future.…...

Does life sometimes seem like a high school cafeteria? It’s not your imagination. Our brain is designed to wire itself in adolescence. Our emotional brain is inherited from earlier mammals…...

Is mind-wandering the same as being on “autopilot,” without being conscious of what you are doing? There seem to be differing perspectives on this question. We’ve probably all had this…...

Dramatic pause – Renee Zellweger says to Tom Cruise in the mega-hit movie, Jerry McGuire; “You complete me.” This, in my opinion, was the worst line in movie history, almost ruining…...