Mindfulness Meditation While Jogging

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Joel

I hate to jog. And I hate to meditate.  So I decided to practice mindfulness meditation while jogging. Continue reading →

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Placebo Paradox

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Joel

Who is Doing the Healing and Sabotaging?

Since studies have shown the brain can heal the body and it is our brain and our body, why don’t we just heal ourselves? Just as in Wright’s case, even when a treatment is producing positive results, your brain nullifies these results if you discover the treatment is a placebo. This is called “the placebo paradox.” Our brain has miraculous healing powers, but it can deftly sabotage.

Placebo Paradox

Placebo Paradox

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Placebo Effect

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Joel
Placebo

Placebo

It’s about a drug called Krebiozen, an anticancer drug discovered by Steven Duvoric, M.D., then professor at the University of Belgrade back in the 1930s. The drug was endorsed by Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, M.D., one of the top U.S. medical researchers. Ivy called a press conference in 1951 proclaiming the astounding results of Krebiozen to fellow doctors and the media making headline stories throughout the world. Continue reading →

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Open-Focus Brain Training

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Joel

Exercise One: Open-Focus Brain Training

The perception of space is the foundation of open-focus brain training exercises. Once you grasp the concept of focusing on space, you are able to shift between narrow to diffused and immersed focus, between foreground and background, and into a relaxed and synchronous space of alpha brain waves. Continue reading →

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Open Focus

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Joel

Narrow Focus

Most of our formal education encourages a narrow focus of attention. “Pay attention” is a phrase most of us have heard through grade school. Pay attention means to focus narrowly on what I am saying or on what you are doing. But constant narrow focus leads to gradual accumulation of physical and mental stress, distress, even burnout. I burned out long before I understood enough to use open focus in my job as a counselor, school psychologist, and teacher. Continue reading →

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First Post

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Joel

I’ve researched methods of healing both mind and body since I was about 17.  I was a complete wreck back then, both mind and body. That was a lifetime ago.

I blindly stumbled upon a truth when I ran track in high school. I say blindly, because in the words attributed to Winston Churchill “Men occasionally stumble upon the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.” Continue reading →

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