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Attention Therapies through Affective Neuroscience

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Joel

Attention Therapies Attention Therapies reach places in the mind and body where words cannot go. Attention Therapies have the power to restore the balance trauma took away from us. Attention Therapies and Affective Neuroscience combine to form a comprehensive self-therapy. But … Continue reading →

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Affective Neuroscience Comorbidity

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Joel

Comorbidity of Affective Neuroscience Working in his lab with rats, Jaak Panksepp found seven primary-process emotional  systems built into the brain by evolution. We and all other mammals are born with these innate neural systems in our brains. We are … Continue reading →

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Neurofeedback and Virtual Reality Training

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Joel

ADD/ADHD Childen Some of the first therapeutic work with neurofeedback training was done with ADD/ADHD children. Neurofeedback training is a type of biofeedback that commonly uses EKG real-time display of brain activity. Initially when working with these children, sensors were placed on … Continue reading →

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Awakening Into Awareness 22 Healing with Awareness

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Joel

Awareness of Our Bottom-Basement Mind Affective Neuroscience developed by Jaak Panksepp in the 1990s deals with raw affective feelings and instinctual emotional responses deep inside our brains below the thinking-cap neocortex. Clinical psychologists rarely deal with these affective feelings and … Continue reading →

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Awakening Into Awareness 21 Shift the Curve

Posted on November 14, 2020 by Joel

Actually, you don’t need to shift the curve. That would be an impossible task to shift an entire population from, for example, pessimism to optimism. Rather, all you need to do is shift where you are on one of the … Continue reading →

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Awakening Into Awareness 20 Body Keeps the Score

Posted on November 7, 2020 by Joel

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: the past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert … Continue reading →

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Awakening Into Awareness 19 Belief

Posted on October 31, 2020 by Joel

Belief drives science to the next level and beyond. There is no progress in science without belief. Reason is a fundamental part of science, but the parent of reason is belief.

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Awakening Into Awarenness 18 Being All There

Posted on October 24, 2020 by Joel

Relaxation Response In“Relaxation Response, Beyond Relaxtion Response and “Relaxation Revolution,” Harvard Cardiologist Herbert Benson discusses how mind-body techniques lower blood pressure, calm brain activity, and balance healthful emissions of nitric oxide in the body’s cells.

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Awakening Into Awareness 15 Consciousness

Posted on October 3, 2020 by Joel

Consciousness @ 1 to 45 Bits per Second Our body sends millions of bits per second to our brain for processing – millions – yet our conscious mind processes only 1 to 45 bits per second. We are conscious of … Continue reading →

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Awakening Into Awareness 17 Plant the Change You Want to Be

Posted on September 28, 2020 by Joel

The start of each school year was rough. High school students reacted to me with baggage they carried in with them. It was apparent to them I was different (VERY Different) and they tested that in every way possible. But … Continue reading →

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