How Walking Barefoot Connects to Earth’s Frequencies
3-30-26 In the morning, I often take a barefoot walk along the grassy knoll behind my house as I joyfully pick the fruit of the season off the trees, such as avocados, mangos, loquats, mamey fruit, and indulge. Why barefoot? Walking barefoot puts us in touch with the earth's frequencies. Throughout history humans always walked […]
My Holistic Self-Regulation Story
2-30-26 On a warm, spring day in 1987, I tripped on my clogs and lunged headlong down a flight of concrete stairs. I crashed onto the right side of my head and suffered head trauma. The fall compressed and misaligned my skull and threw my body out of whack, creating scoliosis, intense head pressure, a […]
Five Natural “Xanax” for Self-Regulation
1-15-26 When you’ve felt wired or down, good chance you’ve taken psychotropic drugs, like anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medication, to help balance emotions and arousability. For some, taking these drugs might have helped. Others might have experienced ill effects … and for good reason. Though tranquilizers like Xanax can calm you when you’re restless, and anti-depressants […]
Do You Eat Poison or Medicine? Find Out
12-30-25 Do you eat as healthy as you should? If not, you are increasing nervous system dysregulation with a knife and fork. Food is medicine if it fortifies brain and body; food is poison if it weakens brain and body. Whether you are raw vegan, vegan, vegetarian, Primal, Pegan, Mediterranean or keto, amongst others, the […]
Are You Self-Regulated? Find Out
3-30-22 Do you feel: frequently irritable or anxious lethargic or depressed jumpy or hyperactive spacey or confused If so, it’s likely your nervous system is dysregulated. This will have to change. To have a happier life, you will need to become more self-regulated. What Is Self-Regulation? Self-regulation is the ability to modify arousal levels and […]
How Yoga Helped Me Survive Head Trauma
2-30-22 The arduous hour and a half Power Vinyasa class is at an end. Lying on my back in Savasana (the corpse pose)— eyes closed and eyeballs fallen into the orbits, arms spread and legs open slightly wider than the hips, palms up and chin slightly pulled down—my body, heavy, melts into the floor. My […]
How Yoga Impacts Brain Waves
5-30-22 When you are jumpy and anxious, your brain is spiking with high beta waves (18-40 Hz). When you are engaged, energized, and focused, your brain is spiking with mid-range beta brain waves (15HZ to 18HZ), present during waking and driven by dopamine. When you are relaxed and meditative, your brain is spiking with alpha […]
How Yoga Makes You Younger
5-15-19 “You’re as young as your spine is flexible.” ~Joseph Pilates How often do you exercise? The answer is critical to your well-being and how well you age. The body was designed to move. Our early ancestors hunted and foraged for food and water, carried children, and hauled tubers and melons. Hard work and much […]
Why Yoga is Sensory Haven
4-30-19 Better posture from yoga. Better focus. Better balance. Stronger muscles. Stronger core. Stronger nervous system! The list goes on. Yoga asanas stimulate and integrate all senses, enhancing sensory organization. They do so by providing: antigravity control postural control midline development core control coordination body awareness modulation and regulation of breath The Senses Proprioception comes […]
Salvador Dali: Classic Case of Sensory Processing Disorder Mimicking Craziness
6-10-24 The artist Salvador Dali is as well known for his crazy, extreme behavior as for his surreal, dream-like paintings. Was his bizarre behavior eccentric or was it supreme sensation seeking from low-responsiveness to sensation? If you understand the degree to which sensory processing drives human behavior, you will choose the latter. "Behavior" says occupational […]