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Pain: How to think about it
"Mynd" by Brian Lucas I teach my clients many different techniques for managing pain, so I was intrigued to read several articles published last week about how French and Belgian hospitals are offering...
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On Boredom and other Meaningful Things
My Zone A (flood zone) apartment in Brooklyn has a nice view of the East River, and there’s a part of me that wishes I could have stayed to watch as Hurricane Irene sent surges up and down the streets...
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Your Mind On Data: Self Tracking
Lasercut of Upset Stomach by Laurie Frick Two weeks ago I attended the conference in Amsterdam of a new movement in healthcare called “Quantified Self” whose logo is ”Self Knowledge Through...
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Guided Neuroscience: Visualizations Rewire Your Brain
I read a lot of books about the brain, and it’s exciting to see how neuroscience is substantiating what healers, hypnotists, shamans, etc. have known for the past 4000 years (give or take a few). A...
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Healing Metaphorically
When I teach workshops like “Move Through Emotional Blocks” I focus on connections between metaphors and the unconscious mind. This excerpt from my forthcoming e-book You, Resourceful: Book One of the...
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It’s not “just” a placebo…
…it’s your human ability to use your mind to trigger biochemical changes in your body, and your body to trigger thoughts in your mind (for better or for worse.) I’ve been following the rise of placebo...
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Sleep! (Or not)
In 1960 the poet Robert Duncan published a book of poetry called “The Opening of the Field” and when I work with clients who find sleeping difficult, I find myself returning again and again to these...
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Three Reasons to Jumpstart your New Year’s Resolutions Now
Have you ever made the conscious decision to change something about your life or health, and then said to yourself: “I’ll do that AFTER I get through this stressful time in my life.” Only to find that...
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2013: Year of Living Impermanently
2012 was the year that if anything, reminded me that any attempts I might make towards stability, certainty, permanence, or quick fixes will usually result in the opposite. So this year I’m going to...
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One for the Spirits: Automatic Writing Baffles Researchers
As a writer, hypnotherapist, and teacher of automatic writing imagine my delight in finding the recently published collaborative study, “Neuroimaging during Trance State: A Contribution to the Study of...
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Zombify! (And learn…)
Writing professors and hypnotists have completely different ideas about language. Owen Phillips: http://www.googleplussuomi.com/ Remember being told to avoid using gerunds (verbs ending in …ing) and...
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One for the spirits (full post)
As promised, here’s the elaboration of my previous post on Automatic Writing. It’s published on Reality Sandwich and available in my new book Trance Poetics: Your Writing Mind. Language is always...
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Immunity Poetics: Thoughts on language and the immune system
It seems pretty clear that the metaphors that are commonly used to describe the immune system — “fighting off” diseases and “pumping up” your immunity to “fend off” “invading” tumors or parasites...
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Anxiety relief now: Duck Soup!
This morning my husband appeared at the breakfast table, agitated. He was anticipating a meeting at work, and had it all planned out in his head. In a nutshell, it went something like this: his...
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Winter Solstice: Prepare for Amazement
Celebrating the winter solstice with a fire ritual (no matter if by candlelight or bonfire) is a good way to honor the cycles of seasons as symbols of your own cyclical life. One way to ritualize the...
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Are your memories biological?
In a recent study, scientists found that memories may be passed down through generations in our DNA. The study suggests that experiences are somehow transferred from the brain into the genome, allowing...
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Reprogramming the Self-Sabotage Code of Human Evolution
Reprogramming the Self-Sabotage Code of Human Evolution Here is another one of my poetic tangents into evolutionary biology, featured today on Reality Sandwich. As Gregory Bateson said in a lecture...
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Those Raging Hormones
At the end of the school year, 5th graders (10-11 years old) in NYC public schools got a puberty lesson and learned about their changing bodies from an emotional and biological perspective. My kid came...
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The Mindfulness Game
Recently, I was driving with my 11 year old daughter and out of the blue she said, “I lost the game.” “What game?” I asked. “It’s a game where basically if you think about the game, you’ve lost the...
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A mind of winter…
Yesterday, at precisely 2:29 UT (Universal Time) the Sun shone directly on the Earth’s equator and a moment later, it headed south. The autumn equinox marks the moment when the sun and the moon command...
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