January 28, 2018
Kim Blair Woodruff
Finding the Flame: From A Columbine Survivor’s Standpoint Sometimes people believe that peace after trauma is not humanly possible. Trauma sticks with you like that mustard stain on your shirt that will never completely go away, no matter how many times you wash it. But the question is – why do they believe that? It…
January 21, 2018
Joe Brady
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger! Instead of trying to avoid stress in our lives, perhaps we should embrace it. We need to gain a sense of mastery over life and the stresses that go with being alive. We all must choose at some point to become the hero of our own life story…
January 7, 2018
Joe Brady
If you “feel” like the stress in your life is aging you faster, it is. Research into stress and the genetics of aging find that stress can indeed accelerate the rate of aging itself. Studies have shown that when stress-related hormones are injected into young healthy rats, the hormones quickly turn the rats’ hair gray,…
October 29, 2017
Joe Brady
According to evolutionary biologist George Baker aging is defined as “the decline over time in the fitness of an organism to deal with the stress of daily life”. An ancient maxim in Chinese medicine runs “Wind is the mother of aging and disease.” Wind being the Chinese term for stress, both external environmental stress, and internal…
October 8, 2017
Joe Brady
As long as there has been stress in the world humans have had to deal with high blood pressure. The first link between high blood pressure and heart disease was not made in western medicine until 1929 by Harvard physician Samuel Albert Levine. Traditional Chinese medicine has been treating high blood pressure for the last 2500…
August 7, 2017
Joe Brady
Mind-body practices are increasingly used to provide stress reduction for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Mind-body practice encompasses activities like tai chi, qigong, yoga and other forms of mindful meditation and relaxation techniques. These kind of mind/body exercises have been shown to impact physical functioning and improve both mental and physical health.
June 19, 2017
Joe Brady
A Systematic Review of Gene Expression Changes Induced by Meditation in Tai Chi and Related Practices The ancient Taoist masters stated that “in perfect harmony of mind and body, the golden elixir is found.” In Traditional Chinese Medicine the way to influence “prior to heaven Jing (genetic expression) is by profound meditation. Once again modern…
February 27, 2017
Joe Brady
by Joseph Brady Watch the video The molecular biology of mind/body healing. A talk by Herbert Bensen founder of the Mind/body clinic at Harvard Medical School and author of The Relaxation Response. Life is change, and how we cope with change determines if we thrive on it or if we are overcome by it. Stress…
February 5, 2017
Joe Brady
by Joseph Brady and Jacqui Shumway “Aging is a question of mind over matter — if you don’t mind it it doesn’t matter,” once quipped Mark Twain. Modern Biomedical research has verified that he was right, to a large extent. As we get older we look forward to enjoying our golden years and doing everything…
November 14, 2016
Joe Brady
By Jacqui Shumway and Joseph Brady There is more to balance than not falling over, it may also keep us from falling apart. After the 2016 election and the information age sweeping us along faster and faster, stress levels are becoming greater and greater. Some stress can make you stronger biologically, but it can also…