Giving yourself a clean slate The word "peace" comes up a lot in the EBT Community. The first reward is Sanctuary: peace and power from within. So, how do we use EBT to facilitate that elusive,
Homeostatic Wires EBT: Self-actualizing Our Joy Potential Behind every stress-induced wire may well be a drive for such joy that rewiring it could transform our lives. Add to that some good fortune of happy circumstances, and who knows what our true joy potential is?
Spiral Up Why not 20 Spiral Ups/Day? By spiraling up more often, the brain stays at a higher, less stressed, more health-promoting state. We stay ahead of the stress and lock in a stronger connection to being in joy.
Emotions #1 Addiction: Suppressing Emotions Suppressing emotions often starts with not having the skills to turn gnarly, stuck emotions into positive, flowing feelings, and continues as a Survival Circuit . . . a drive to suppress rather than express.
weight loss Weight Loss: Make It Easy! Stress activates the Big 8 Chemicals that drive overeating, binge eating, mindless eating, and food addiction. Rewire the offending circuits so that weight loss can become effortless and lasting.
Psychotherapy Neuroscientific therapy for all Mental health is rooted in physiology, yet psychotherapy methods do not directly treat the circuits that drive physiology. With stress levels rising ("The Age of the Emotional Brain"), it is time for that to change.
Survival Circuits Rebirthing addiction therapy Neuroscience breakthroughs forwarded by Joseph LeDoux give us a way to see addictions that makes them more treatable and offers a pathway to clearing the stigma. They are wires! Discover three new ways to think about addiction based on this science.
Resilience EBT is a verb! Although emotional brain training is the method's name, it is action-oriented and deserves to be applied as a verb. So, whatever circuit you erase, consider saying, "Oh, I feel emotionally lighter. I feel great because I EBTed it."
Neuroplasticity Change Your Circuits, Change Your Life All problems are brain circuits. With EBT, we have the power to fix any of them that block our joy and separate us from that "glow state" that optimizes our health. What's the neuroscientific pathway to a GREAT life? Fixing our own brain with the immense power of EBT.
podcast Explore Emotional Brain Training with Dr. Laurel Mellin on The Natural Health Rising Podcast Dr. Laurel Mellin, renowned health psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, and founder of Emotional Brain Training (EBT), recently appeared on The Natural Health Rising Podcast. In this enlightening episode, Dr. Mellin delves
Food Circuit Comfort Eating? The Ultimate Discomfort! With 74 percent of Americans overweight, it's time to redefine "comfort eating" and get out of the Mediocre Middle States that ramp up our desire for carbs, penchant for sugar, and addiction to food.
Spiral Up Any time you are not in joy . . . Now that you are an EBTer, it's time to be a better consumer of life. The sight of a family heirloom box activated an allostatic wire with its stress chemical surge. What a gift to me to spiral up, clear it, and return to joy.
Spirituality After the 5 comes the 1+ That deep Brain State 5 is almost as good as Brain State 1, as it unlocks wires in the reptilian brain. In those states, we find out who we really are, and voila . . we are at One.
podcast New Podcast Alert: Rewiring Health Podcast ft. Dr. Laurel Mellin, PhD! In the latest episode of the Rewiring Health Podcast, airing on November 7, 2024, host Kelly Kessler sits down with Dr. Laurel Mellin, the pioneer behind Emotional Brain Training (EBT).
Love Soft . . . like a Joy Point What does it mean to notice a smell from week-old flowers and say it is soft, like a Joy Point? A special message from my daughter led me to reflect on mothering.
