The hippocampus is like our brain’s ‘memory muscle’. It accounts for our ‘working memory’- or what many psychologists refer to as our ‘fluid intelligence’… helping us to learn, reason, comprehend, and problem-solve in novel situations. We use our working memory to monitor, regulate & discern the information we receive, retrieve, process, and dispose. It bridges […]
Growing apart… can we find in our hearts the ‘space’ to grow back together? Observational distance offers us the opportunity and the freedom to see what lies in the ‘gap’ of growing apart. Whatever may be the result of our internal fractures can be restored and healed with caring and open attention…from matters of clear […]
The ‘truth’ about our own purpose in life may be closer than we think- a ‘voice’ from within that calls out to us to wake up and pay attention to something deeply visceral. Perhaps, we are too busy searching outside of ourselves… the ‘truth’ obscured as we tend to be consumed by what we have […]
We have truly lost our ‘way’ when fear triumphs over fact. We must remain disciplined and diligent in transforming our fears with empirical fact and truth.
According to MIT researchers, the power of habit starts with a simple neurological loop consisting of a ‘cue’… following with a ‘routine’… while reinforced with some kind of ‘reward’ or ‘benefit’. Underlying the reward or benefit, there is often a strong belief or conviction that is fueled by a craving & yearning to sustain a […]