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Unlock Your Healing Potential: Partnering with Your Body
Learning to work with your body instead of fighting against it is an essential aspect of neural retraining that’s often overlooked. This involves shifting from a mindset of fear, self-criticism, and frustration to one of compassion and understanding. Healing begins when you listen to your body’s whispers instead of waiting for
Slowing Down is Crucial in Your Neural Retraining Journey
We live in a world that often pushes us to move fast, to do more, and to check all the boxes. This can easily carry over into our neural retraining practice. We all want our symptoms to improve, and it’s natural to feel the frustration or the pressure when we see others making progress while we feel stuck. It might feel like we’re getting behind or that
Ditch the Drama and Transform Your Healing Journey
Have you ever wondered why we’re so drawn to drama, even when it adds stress to our lives? Let’s explore how ditching the drama can help calm our limbic system and support our healing journey. By understanding how our brain works and making a few strategic changes, we can create a more peaceful and supportive environment
Navigating Resistance in Your Neural Retraining Program
Resistance is a very common part of neural retraining and is to be expected. This resistance can take many forms – usually things like general anxiety, procrastination, avoidance, or an increase in physical symptoms. It’s normal to have some resistance when doing neural retraining, but it shouldn’t be overwhelming.
3 Steps to Handle Triggering Emotions
We all experience difficult emotions from time to time. Whether it’s fear, sadness, anger, or frustration, these emotions can be overwhelming and triggering to the limbic system. Let’s understand what happens in our brain when we face difficult emotions. Our limbic system, which is the part of the brain involved in our emotional and
Unlock the Potential of Psilocybin and Ketamine in Neural Retraining
There are many types of psychedelic substances, but in this article we’ll be looking at just two – psilocybin, which is a substance found in certain mushrooms, and ketamine. While there are many other psychedelics being studied and used, I chose to focus on these two because they are the most accessible, the most studied, and the
Practical Strategies for Effective Visualizations
Visualization is a powerful tool in your neural retraining practice and can help you rewire your brain to reduce and even eliminate symptoms of chronic illness, pain, fatigue, and anxiety. By visualizing calming, peaceful scenes, you can help soothe the limbic system, the part of the brain responsible for
Can Neural Retraining Heal THIS Symptom?
Let’s look at how neural retraining works and how calming the limbic system plays a crucial role in your healing journey. When we talk about neural retraining, it’s essential to recognize that it’s not about “fixing” symptoms directly. Instead, it’s about calming the limbic system. The limbic system is the part of our brain that
The Value of Quitting: Learning the Power of Saying No
It can be difficult to balance all our responsibilities. All of this juggling can feel frustrating and exhausting, and can even lead to feelings of failure. This can trigger the limbic system into a state of fight, flight, or freeze. This heightened state of alertness is contrary to the calm required for the body to activate the healing response.
Creating a Safe Space for Compassionate Awareness
iving with chronic illness challenges can often lead to feelings of frustration and self-judgment. But what if I told you there’s a foundation for your neural retraining program that can transform these feelings? It’s called compassionate awareness. Compassionate awareness is foundational because it helps reduce
Patience is Power: Embrace Your Healing Journey Step by Step
In our fast-paced world, many of us crave immediate results, especially when it comes to healing. I understand the desire to move faster in this journey because I’ve walked that path myself. While the concept of rewiring our limbic system and shifting unwanted patterns holds incredible promise, the journey often requires patience. This
Embracing Calm: The Power of Gentle Surrender
In the journey to manage chronic illness, fatigue, pain, and anxiety, there’s an all-too-common trap many fall into: the push to “work harder,” “force solutions,” or “fix the problem”. It’s an understandable response, and I get it – I’ve been there too. But this approach can lead us further from the wellness we seek. Today, let’s explore
