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7 Fun Games to Exercise Your Brain
I love games, but I admit, I don’t love them them all. Give me a game that keeps me challenged, that is easy to learn, and I can do with others offline, and I’m usually happy. So this is why I’m thrilled to share these awesome games that I learned about from Scott Lebhar, the manager at Marbles, the Brain Store in Seattle! Not only do they have a mission to find and distribute fun and easy-to-learn games, but they also help you develop 6 different critical skills! What are they? Critical thinking/planning, and Strategizing: Do you...
read moreHow Releasing Subconscious Barriers Changes the Brain
I call myself a Holistic Healer for a Happy & Healthy Brain, and yet I release subconscious barriers. So how does releasing subconscious barriers change the brain? While I can’t provide decisive evidence about how it changes the brain, I can conjecture a theory based on current findings in neuroscience. We know, thanks to the discoveries of neuroplasticity, that our brains are constantly evolving, and that habit changes rewire the brain. What is neuroplasticity? The most fundamental concept of neuroplasticity, is that neurons that fire...
read moreOne Mindset Shift that Will Help You Forgive
I spent most of my life hating my father. When growing up, he constantly criticized us or lectured us about how or who we should be. Because he had so much anger, and insisted that we were responsible for not making him angry, I felt like I was constantly walking on eggshells. I never felt like I could be myself. The constant striving to please him to avoid his anger was exhausting! I remember being told more than once as a young adult that I needed to forgive him. That just deepened my despair, because I just couldn’t figure out how. ...
read moreThe Global Consequences of Ignoring our Mental Health
It saddens me terribly to say this, but I truly believe that in this country, we are facing an epidemic of cruelty. Forty years ago, I don’t think we could have ever imagined America as a country, where we would have an average of one mass shooting a day, where police would be regularly caught on tape beating up minorities, or where presidential candidates were allowed to openly incite violence towards anyone they didn’t like. The reasons for this trend are many. I believe that rising inequality breeds greater unhappiness, and I’ve outlined...
read more3 Tips to Find the Courage to Change
For most of my life, I ran away from opportunities because I lived in fear. I had no courage to change. When I was a child, I wanted to be an actress. I remember one of my earliest performance experiences. I was playing a young Chinese little sister who had to bring out a Chinese dust broom to the girl playing my mother. When my teacher cued me out on stage, I handed the broom to ‘my mother’, and we dropped it. We picked it up again, and in my nervousness, we dropped it again. By then the audience was laughing, and I couldn’t get...
read moreWhat to Say to the Skeptics of Energy Medicine
When I first realized the power of energy medicine, I was working in a psychology department, and I tried to persuade a professor that Emotional Freedom Technique worked. So, he let me work with him on his neck pain, and it went from a pain level of 4/10 to 0/10 in minutes. But was he convinced? I don’t think so. What I do know was that it made him very uneasy, and he began to distance himself from me. I’ve had a couple of other experiences where I’ve either helped experts in mental health or Western medicine heal from injuries, and even...
read more5 Subconscious Barriers to Emotional Intimacy
For most of my life, I’ve feared emotional intimacy. As I’ve grown aware that I’ve been unconsciously pushing people away, I’ve been on a mission to find and develop deeper and more meaningful relationships. In my search, I found these 5 barriers that often hinder emotional intimacy. If you struggle with having or keeping meaningful relationships, where it feels safe to be authentic and vulnerable, see if any of these apply to you: 1. The belief that the right relationship should be easy I’ve was in a relationship where things were going...
read moreWhy You Should Consider a Holistic Approach to Mental Health
Our Western medical system is set up to divide the brain from body. We treat mental and cognitive health, by addressing issues from our past, by seeing counselors, psychiatrists or neurologists. They focus either on psychological or the chemical, and occasionally the anatomical aspects of the brain that drive our pathology. But is that enough to make us mentally healthy? Sometimes, but I would argue that in order for the problem to go away (without a lifelong dependence on pharmaceutical drugs), the underlying causes need to be...
read more5 Hidden Obstacles Most Professionals Face that Keep Them Stuck, Unhappy & Unfulfilled
Do you feel like you are getting in your own way of reaching your professional goals? Are you getting distracted? Do you procrastinate? Do you make excuses? On Monday, Jan 11th, I was interviewed with Wendi, Krista and Shermin on Sky’s the Limit Radio. I talked about the 5 Hidden Obstacles Most Professionals Face that Keep Them Stuck, Unhappy & Unfulfilled The interview was packed with good information that you are unlikely to get anywhere else! And luckily, it is online so you can still hear it! In this interview,...
read more5 New Year’s Resolutions to Consider for Personal Growth
People often use New Year’s Resolutions as an opportunity to try to break a bad habit. Some of the most common ones are to lose weight, exercise more, or stop smoking. But have you considered setting goals that will help you personally and interpersonally? Here are a few to consider: 1. Pay it Forward The concept of Pay it Forward was initially popularized by the 2000 movie of the same title. It’s worth watching for inspiration. Since then researchers who look at the effects of kindness have shown that it pays off both for the givers,...
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