6 Ways to Create Sensory Haven While Driving
6-30-21 Driving in your car can be an amazing opportunity to enhance your sensory diet. Here are many ways. Auditory: Listen to the music that you need at that time to either perk you up or calm you down and sing along with it. Turn off the music and chant or listen to the sound […]
How Neuroplasticity Changes Your Brain
4-15-26 If you have sensory processing disorder (SPD), a common condition in which you misperceive and misconstrue sensori-motor information and behave out of proportion to the messages coming from the environment, it’s easy to get discouraged. After all, no pill will make it go away. Nevertheless, by following sensorimotor interventions and mind-body techniques, like meditation […]
Are You Uptight & Off Center? If So, Good Chance You Have Spd
2-30-21 Sensory processing disorder (SPD), a common condition in which you misperceive and misconstrue sensori-motor information and behave out of proportion to the messages coming from the environment is more and more in the news but still not well understood. A common misconception is that it exists largely in special needs children who are hypersensitive […]
How Increasing Your Vibrational Energy Stabilizes Your Nervous System
As a writer, the bulk of my time is spent at home in front of a computer screen. While much of the time the work interests and challenges me, writing can often be tedious, challenging, and sometimes boring. How do I stay focused, and on task? I surround myself with sensory energy: Playing on-going music; […]
What’s Creates Yoga Bliss? Answer is Not What You Think
Yoga Bliss—that calm, settled, the world is a wonderful place to be is what many who practice yoga describe feeling sprawled out in shavasana, the traditional way to end class. I too felt this way often in the different forms of yoga I practiced for many years. But I felt it most intensely at the […]
4 Ways to Make Your Home Reflect Your Unique Self
4-30-18 Do you ever watch HGTV? I do. It’s fun watching decorators on cable TV transform someone’s home from a hodge-podge into a stream-lined, harmonious and elegant space. Yet a part of me cringes. Whose house is it anyway? Every aspect of our home should express self, reflecting and impacting well-being. But in today’s consumer […]
Why You Should Use Natural Cleaning Products Whenever Possible
3-30-18 If you’re like most, you spend as much as 80% of your time indoors, and more than half inside your own home. This practice may be bad for your health. From the paint on our walls, to the odorless fumes coming from our gas stove, to the cleanser we use to clean our bathtub, […]
Utilize Natural Light Whenever Possible
2-30-18 With most of us spending most of our time indoors, and with the sun’s rays having received much bad press as a cause of skin cancer, few of us soak up the sun’s rays anymore. In fact, not getting enough sunlight is a far greater overall health hazard than soaking in the rays. We […]
Ways to Create a Colorful Home
1-30-18 What is the first thing you notice when you enter a room? Most will answer “color.” Though we may not be conscious of it, color has a powerful effect on our well-being. It raises or lowers our breathing and heart rate Affects whether we perceive a room as large or small or warm or […]
Did Edgar Allen Poe Have Muses Syndrome?
11-30-17 Sprinkled throughout the writings of Edgar Allen Poe are references to anxiety, panic, and hypersensitivity. Note these from The Fall of the House of Usher (1839): “Constant nervous agitation” “Suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses” “Insipid food was alone endurable” “Could wear only garments of certain texture” “Odors of all flowers […]