A Journey To Full Self-Expression

By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times | May 13, 2008
LOS ANGELES - Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker whose ingenuity and daring saved 2,500 Jewish children from extermination in the Holocaust, a feat that went largely unrecognized for 60 years, died yesterday in Warsaw. She was 98.
She had been hospitalized since last […]

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Physical/Social Pain Overlap Theory
A summary of the Eisenberger and Lieberman study on how social pain (exclusion, rejection, loss of relationship) is experienced in the brain in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)  the same way physical pain is experienced.  Using advanced imaging technology, it was found that be it physical pain or the social pain […]

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From Dr. Daniel Amen, e-newletter.
As I travel the country promoting brain health (and I’ve been traveling a lot recently!) I am often asked for practical suggestions about how we can care for our brains. The truth is, you are not stuck with the brain you have. I have seen my own brain function […]

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Have you ever been in so much pain that you thought you were going to die?
Have you ever suffered so much that you wanted to die?
Every year, hundreds of millions of individuals in the U.S. do suffer to death. Slowly. Excruciatingly.
Egg-laying hens packed in tiny cages, […]

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People ask me all the time, ‘Tom, why do you meditate?”. My usual response is ‘Sit quietly and breath for five minutes, without distraction, and you will know why’. There is a sense of calm, peace, reconnection, awareness and insight that emerges. It is a remembering of what’s important. A clarity about […]

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