Can Stress Lead to Cancer?
Because I travel so often, I often fill my time in airports and on planes reading articles and research I think can be of use to the BrainTap community. I just finished an article that I found particularly interesting given how often I recommend you use BrainTap for stress reduction in this age of Super-Stress. […]
How BrainTap Can Boost Your Self-Esteem
Self Judgement We are brought up in a world where we constantly compare ourselves to others. We invalidate and judge ourselves based on what the media and entertainment industry tells us is normal. Whether it’s a magazine cover or a favorite TV show, either consciously or subconsciously, we try to match up to often unrealistic […]
How to Activate Your Mental Pharmacy
Chronic Pain Chronic pain is what you experience when, long after an injury is gone, the pain still hangs around, like an uninvited guest sleeping on your couch. In many ways, it’s the most overlooked epidemic of our time. According to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 100 million Americans suffer from chronic […]
Does too little sleep make you less attractive?
Side Effects of Poor Sleep There are many known side effects from getting too little or poor quality sleep. Daytime drowsiness, irritability, lack of concentration, poor memory, and suppressed immune function, just to name a few. Chronic lack of sleep can also be dangerous, causing such things as low blood sugar, relentless fatigue, anxiety, and […]
Can retirement turn your brain to mush?
New study reveals startling evidence that retirement is bad for your brain…Unless you do this! Have you ever heard the phrase, “Use it or lose it?” There may be more truth to this adage than previously thought. Recent studies done in the United States, England, and 11 other European countries indicate that the earlier someone […]
Get Healthy Without Breaking A Sweat
Exercise your…brain? While many people have never heard of brainwave entrainment, it is a field of study that has over 75 years under its belt. In 1929 scientist Hans Berger discovered the Alpha brainwave. Not long after, researchers figured out that brainwaves could be strengthened using flickering lights. They called it Photic Driving. By 1942 […]
Got Pain? Shed Some Light On It!
If you experience joint pain, chronic inflammation, acne or more, healing could be as simple as shedding some light on the problem! In recent years, low-level light therapy has been making headlines for the treatment of conditions such as chronic pain and inflammation. Light therapy increases blood flow which helps in tissue recovery and collagen […]
Switching Gears – the Power of Light and Sound
Imagine if your brain worked like a gear shift in your car. What would happen to the engine if that gear shift was stuck in second gear? You’d eventually crash or burn your motor out. That’s what happens to our brains when we are stuck in fight or flight mode due to stress. Without being […]
15 Surprising Ways Music Benefits our Health
“One good thing about music, is when it hits you, you feel no pain.” Bob Marley There is nothing like hearing your favorite song come on the radio. You immediately turn the volume up, probably start singing, and your mind immediately goes to the memories this song invokes. Or the feeling when you see your […]
Don’t let your brain shrink! Do this instead…
It’s January…the time of year millions of people commit to getting back in shape. My gym is swarming with newly inspired exercise enthusiasts but, like every other year, I know it will slowly dwindle down to the same group of regulars. If you’ve made getting fit your New Year’s resolution, here’s what you need to […]
