Wired and Tired

With everything happening in the world right now, you may be feeling tired, but when you go to rest, your body seems wired? What is that about? It may mean that your nervous system is stuck. Your body is remarkably brilliant, which is both good news and bad news in our modern society. The bad news is that this is …

This is Your Brain on Meditation

Meditation can be defined as willfully and purposefully regulating one’s attention, either for relaxation, self-realization, or growth and transcendence. This willful and purposeful regulation of attention can be broadly defined in two categories.  1) Focusing attention on a changing object (body scan, progressive muscle relaxation, or a movement practice such as yoga) 2) An unchanging repetitive object which is continuously …