What's the Neuroscience of Adventure? I love adventures large and small because it wakes up my brain and makes me feel alive! Whether you are a paddler, a bicycler, a hiker or scrapbooker, lol many things can be a form of adventure, but there's also neuroscience behind it, check out this quote from Shape magazine on [...]
Let's go ice skating they said. Yes! I said, I'm a fabulous ice skater, I love the feel of the ice, I love the freedom, the movement. I can skate tricks, I can do circles and turns, forwards and backwards, I can do single legged swans and spins. You see, I grew up in Logan [...]
How to Create Power Habits Habits are Powerful Because they are Recurring. The beauty of habits is they don't happen once, they happen again and again and are consistent. The tallest mountain can be climbed with just one step at a time. Think of healthy lifestyle and healthy weight as a collection of habits. The [...]
Why are relationships so complicated? "You're hair looks good today?" he said. "What do you mean by that?" she sneered. "I just said it looks good today, I didn't mean anything by it." "So other days it doesn't look good, but today it does?" "sheesh..." Have you ever had conversations like this, you say something [...]
What is the Superconscious Mind? We're familiar with the Unconscious Mind, think of it is the stuff behind the scenes running the recurring habits, patterns and feelings that keep recirculating. From our experiences growing up, the mind creates these patterns and runs them automatically, however, not all of them are helpful. You may have heard [...]
What do you do when you feel stuck? Stuckness can be as simple as frustration or even as extreme as hopelessness. In our culture, we have a tendency to shut down emotion rather than paying attention to it. In my family growing up, we didn't grow up with good emotional recognition. It was all about [...]
Easy Meditation Exercise to Clear Your Mind I take meditation with me everywhere, its easy, its free and it doesn't have to take hours. Even 5-10 minutes of meditation can alleviate stress, clear your mind, refocus your brain, lower your blood pressure and reset yourself. The other day, I was watching an episode of Avatar: [...]
Sometimes when we feel stuck by the circumstances of life, its easy to feel defeated. In these times, when we try to think of something better, the mind argues with us "that's not possible" "you can't have that." But don't stay there! One way to stop your mind from arguing with you over what's possible [...]
How to Overcome Anxiety: Utah's 5.7 Earthquake I woke from a sound sleep as the whole house shook, it was like the walls were liquid, shaking with fear. The seconds seemed endless in the moments of it. Then the shaking of the walls stopped and there was silence. And in the silence an air of uncertainty. [...]
ACCKKKK! 10 minutes before go time, my computer totally locked up and I had a bunch of people registered! Last Week I was hosting the Easy Sales Conversations & Conversions, when 10 minutes before, my computer totally froze up and there was nothing I could do about it. I tried calling in to the online [...]
