Awesome Neuroscience Blog

Be thankful. It’s good for your brain, body, health, and for everyone around you! The holiday season is action-packed. Our schedules overflow, and we run around as if we are sprinting through life in a hundred-meter dash. All the attention hogs we navigate, programmed consumerism, social media, status updates, deadlines, and world affairs, lead us to identify with lack, anxiety, and stress. We look at the world through a narrow lens and it feels like everything is upside

My power in personal branding frees me to speak my voice, embrace my vision, and live my true mission. I am happy living privately in my headspace, and I identify as an introvert at heart, eighty percent of the time. I hold my ideas, stories, and truths quietly in my mind until I am close to completion, or at least seventy edits into the process, before I share with anyone. I am somewhat of a perfectionist. As a neuroscientist and writer, I navigate between stories and

High emotional capacity is a blessing and a curse. Without high emotional intelligence individuals like St. Teresa of Calcutta would have not impacted our world so profoundly. We need these individuals to open our eyes to be more empathetic, caring, and develop creative solutions to better society. Even with all of St. Teresa of Calcutta’s massive progress, she suffered silently with her faith and the vulnerability of the human condition. Gifted individuals with a high e

Loving kindness is a practice that focuses on the cultivation of kindness in every form of life through our experiences, emotions, bodily sensations, and thought patterns. The intention of a loving kindness practice is to greet each life experience with kindness in others and ourselves. A loving kindness practice is literally better for our health and increases well being. Studies show that a loving kindness practice develops prosocial behavior and by focusing on compassio