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Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity

Neuron Speed: Why Rewiring Is So Essential for Treating Stress Eating and Obesity
Neuroplasticity

Neuron Speed: Why Rewiring Is So Essential for Treating Stress Eating and Obesity

The wires that activate overeating are lightning fast, so behavior change is unlikely. They are fast because these wires are not elaborate and complex. They are exceedingly simple. The electrical impulses hop from one neuron to the next. Rewire that circuit and get the freedom you want and need.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
It's not me. It's just a wire!
Neuroplasticity

It's not me. It's just a wire!

The reality of life is not what you see, but the specific wire in your unconscious mind that is activated. Take charge of your stress wires with EBT. Maximize the power you have to make yourself healthier and happier!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
EBT is a verb!
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."

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
4 min read
Change Your Circuits, Change Your Life
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.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
5 min read
Rewiring: Why people love EBT
Neuroplasticity

Rewiring: Why people love EBT

Apart from surgical procedures, to solve our health problems we have three main choices. Only rewiring the brain is affordable, delivers lasting results, and each circuit that you require can be transformational.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Take Charge of Life with EBT
Neuroplasticity

Take Charge of Life with EBT

EBT is a new paradigm in healthcare. The method began in the 1980s and it became neuroscience-based in 2007. Integrating the basic concepts of EBT into how you think about and control your life takes time. It's a new paradigm.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
3 Life-changing Ideas
Neuroplasticity

3 Life-changing Ideas

Three ideas based on neuroscience and weathering the inevitable ups and downs of life and be life-changing.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Rewiring Depression
Mood Circuits

Rewiring Depression

Current depression treatment is pre-BBH. Imagine a world in which we learned how to activate healing chemicals for ourselves! This will take a revolution, which is why BBH is a movement.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
5 min read
Why We Overeat!  #6 – A Mini-Meltdown
Stress Eating

Why We Overeat! #6 – A Mini-Meltdown

Taking control of food means using a simple emotional technique, having a do-it-yourself opportunity to clear away stress and spiral up to joy – Craving GONE!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
The Missing Link
Heal Yourself

The Missing Link

What if with all our advances in healthcare, there was a missing link that would make us really healthy and happy? That missing link would be brain-based health.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Joe's Animation of EBT
Brain states

Joe's Animation of EBT

About a decade ago, my son Joe Mellin changed the EBT culture and goals, setting the stage for Brain Based Health. Here is a video he made about EBT, which says it all!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
Why We Overeat #2 - It's A Silly Wire!
Stress Eating

Why We Overeat #2 - It's A Silly Wire!

It's the wires in our emotional brain that trigger us to overeat. These wires tell us what to do. What's Brain Based Health? Skills to shut off or rewire those messages and drives.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
Misery – It's GREAT for us!
Neuroplasticity

Misery – It's GREAT for us!

Walking through Sather Gate years back, I was miserable. Another student made fun of me. Little did he (nor I) know then that misery can lead to transformation. Now we do!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Why We Overeat #1 - My Story
Stress Eating

Why We Overeat #1 - My Story

The brain is very personal! It stores the circuits that tell the story of our lives, which are re-activated without our awareness or approval to cause repeats of past experiences, including stress eating.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
The Psychological Is Biological!
Allostatic wires

The Psychological Is Biological!

Every emotion you experience is not only the reflection of the biologic - a wire – but it activates chemicals that impact ever cell, organ and organ system in our your body. Psychology is biology.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
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