Weekly Wellness

There are many things in our modern world that can draw us in and then begin to control us. This includes our behaviours and they have an impact on how our brain functions plus our brain health. The obvious one that comes to mind is smart phones. With its bright blue lit screen, exciting social media apps, entertainment games to distract us from our boredom to keeping us contactable and working 24hr a day if we want through email and more. This all in one device has become a huge and indispensable part of our lives. Unfortunately research […]

When it comes to improving health or overcoming a symptom, illness or injury many people first turn to eating better, adding a supplement or begin exercising. While these are all good and important things to do and they help improve many people’s health, you may be leaving one of the most beneficial things for improving health untouched. A healing mindset. The healing mindset is often a persons unseen secret weapon when faced with health issues, illness or injury. One of the underlying principles to a healing mindset is that you have an innate ability to heal, provided you […]

The tech choices you make are having an impact on how your brain perceives pleasure and pain. If you pursue lifestyle habits like excessive scrolling through social media or playing video games in  large amounts you may be triggering a quick and excessive dopamine release. This has been shown to upset the pain pleasure balance within the brain. The pain pleasure balance is set up like a seesaw and when someone pursues quick pleasure rewards it ultimately tips the seesaw into the opposite direction leading to pain. When great effort, hardworking and patience is required to achieve a […]

In a time where people are suffering from anxiety are at the highest levels ever seen, it might be wise to look at the difference between thought and thinking. Thought is a random idea or concept that seems to just pop into one’s head. While thinking is the meaning or judgement we place on that thought. Then for many the meaning or judgment they place on this random thought is often negative. This often then leads to them ruminating or overthinking on said random thought. The negative overthinking then stimulates negative feelings of sadness, guilt, fear, anger, self […]