laurel's life What Brain Area Rules Us? When stress is low and the thinking brain (prefrontal cortex in GREEN above) is in charge, life is good. When stress is high, the bottom of the brain (in BROWN) takes over, which is what causes most problems.
Brain states The Loneliness Cure We give ourselves an emotional cleanse each time we use the EBT Tools. Then our mind opens up and we see the grace, beauty, and mystery of life in unexpected ways. Loneliness vanishes. The cure is within.
Laurel’s Life Poor Tammy - It's Cycle Time! The couple's tool to break through stress together comes in handy, however, the dog can't cope with emotions. Poor Tammy! Using the Cycle Time technique can bring rapid stress relief to all.
Set Point The Most Beautiful Pathway The natural pathway from stress to joy is already inside you. The movement to equip all Americans with the simple tools to access it is the mission of brain-based health. Become part of this natural health movement. Try out the tools!
BBH & the News Taking in the News The news can be stressful! It can trigger Stress Circuits that take us to Brain State 3, 4 or 5, that is, in stress! Use stress relief in real time with the emotional tools of EBT.
Stress Eating Brain-Based Weight Loss Lasting weight loss rests on smart rewiring. Weight and food are so core to survival that the emotional brain controls them. Clearing out two specific wires is core to experiencing weight loss that lasts.
Allostatic wires Joy After Trauma What a joyful world it would be if the BBH movement were successful and more people could heal trauma on the spot and turn stress into joy.
Laurel’s Life Tammy's Loving Brain Walt and I have a beloved dog, Tammy, and her loving limbic brain is so dominant that she goes into stress overload really easily! How can we help her?
Laurel’s Life The Mockingbird Revisited The famous book, To Kill A Mockingbird, focuses on innocence that the mocking bird symbolizes. Yet, don't we all have a mockingbird inside somewhere?
Heal Yourself Blending BBH with Surgery? The foundations of health are natural: Commit to processing life just the way it is, and using your brain well, then exploring traditional healthcare as needed.
BBH & the News The Power of One Robert Smith presented an extraordinary gift to graduating students, but the brain gives him rewards beyond happiness. It ensures that he continues to find new challenges and rewards him with JOY.
Allostatic wires Feelings: The 2 Types Just the way there are only two types of wires that control our emotions, thoughts, responses, and physiology, there are only two types of emotions. The skill of differentiating them is core to using our power in daily life.
Relationship Wires Freedom from Grieving Behind each moment of grieving is immense joy. Evolutionary biology delivers sadness to motivate us to cycle down and release that pain, clearing the hurt, and ensuring that we become wiser and stronger.
Heal Yourself Beyond Mindfulness It seems like mindfulness and other cognitive methods should work, however, new science shows that when we are stressed, the brain won't let us use these techniques. The BBH way to real-time stress relief: emotional techniques.
Mood Circuits A Cure for Anxiety? What does anxiety look like from a Brain Based Health perspective? How can the BBH view help us feel better faster, and specifically, what is the "reconsolidation window?"
