I was having a discussion with Ellen a few days ago about the experience of ease I had while visiting my brother up in Portland. I was noting that an identifiable difference while up there compared to my normal life was the absence of demand for me to have a position or make any decisions. I […]
About a week ago I read a book on vagus nerve function and clinical applications. The vagus nerve has been described as the rest and digest nerve that comes out from the base of your skull and travels down to most all of your internal organs like the heart, lungs, and digestive system. This would normally be […]
One of the central drivers in our life is to feel good about ourselves. What this means and what brings us to feel this way varies tremendously between people. We all start in the similar position of being completely dependent on our care takers while we are infants. Feeling good at that age is all […]
The most common complaint I hear from patients regarding their medical doctor is that no matter how many complaints they may have, if their lab tests are normal, the doctor does nothing. We know that something is wrong when we feel bad. That is the whole point to bad feelings – to tell us that something […]
Muscle Brain – pt.2 Most ill health begins as unconscious feeling conflicts, repression, and unresolved tensions. Since they are unconscious you do not feel them. They probably were conscious at one time, but when you encountered the conflict you did not have a resolution at that time so you shoved the feeling tension to […]
Welcome to October! Thanks for the interest so many of you have expressed in my birthday trip. Ellen and I had a great time at Safari West, 9 miles west of Calistoga, Ca. We stayed in a safari tent on a hillside overlooking a paddock occupied by several giraffes and antelope. The tent may look solid, but the thin […]
Welcome to the mid-September issue of my newsletter. Has anybody noticed the Christmas decoration displays out already? Whoa, I wasn’t ready for that one. I might start keeping my eye out for presents in October and November, but worrying about Santa Claus lawn decorations the day after Labor Day is pushing things just a bit […]