Everyone can benefit from a little self-care, and having goals to strive for is one of the best ways to stay motivated and productive. Whether you’re looking to get fit, make time for yourself, or focus on your career, setting wellness goals is an important part of maintaining balance in life. Here are some tips on how to stay on track with your wellness goals, shared by SF Neurofeedback Center.
Read MoreGoing through a rough patch? It’s normal to feel pulled down if you’re in a rut, grieving, or facing a difficult time at work or in life. But the secret to healing from your experiences is actually pretty simple: it lies in taking care of yourself. Of course, sometimes that’s easier said than done. So today, we share some tips and resources that will increase your sense of wellbeing, enabling you to live your best life.
Read MoreBoost your mood through science! By understanding what contributes to our happiness and mental health on a chemical level we can “hack” our brains to maximize our happiness!
Here are the four main chemicals that contribute to happiness and activities that can help trigger their release!
Read MoreDuring these uncertain times, governments have been urging their citizens to stay home and avoid social interaction. Especially in busy cities like New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, social distancing is a critical aspect of the plan to “flatten the curve” and save lives.
As the summer progresses, many individuals are stuck at home with social interaction limited to online video chats and gyms yet to reopen. Personal connections and physical exercise have been proven to play key roles in mental health, but these activities have been extremely limited during the pandemic.
Read MoreWe always have our eyes open for new treatments that help brain-related diseases and other conditions. For some of these, unfortunately, there simply isn't a cure. Alzheimer's been described as the Great Morbidity of the 21st Century and it currently affects an estimate of 5.8 million Americans. Even tough we have not found a cure for it yet, great medical advances have helped us get closer. A recent study, for instance, found that mice with some Alzheimer’s-like brain plaques were positively impacted when shown flashing lights and clicking sounds.
Read MoreWe're big fans of technology that improves our daily lives. Neurofeedback therapy, when done frequently and consistently, can have a great impact in the way we feel on a daily basis. By just sitting back and relaxing, this technology can prompt the brain to draw from its existing resources and pull itself out of these mental “ruts”. The result is a more open and positive mindset in which obstacles are more manageable and problems more resolvable.
Read MoreOne of the most widespread mental health issues of our time, depression has affected more than 16 million adults in the US alone last year. We have found evidence that Neurofeedback training has helped people struggling with depression in the past, and continuous research helps us understand how this new technology can help patients struggling again this condition.
Read MoreWe at the US Neurofeedback Center are big defenders of sleep. We know a good night's sleep directly affects your energy leves, your humor and you general health. Besides recharging your brain, sleeping helps us absorb new skills acquired doing that day and save fresh memories. Deprivation of sleep can affect your production of insulin (which can deregulate the sugar levels in your blood), weaken your immune system and have a significant effect on your mental health.
Read MoreMore and more, technology is used in favor of meditation. Through what has been called “transformative tech", software and hardware are created to aid people looking to take up this practice that is so helpful to our bodies and minds. Neurofeedback has been proved to help people looking to quiet down their minds and now other devices such as Muse are also been used.
Read MoreWe often discuss the impacts of Neurofeedback treatment on patients looking to cure or heal a specific condition. But more more often than not, this revolutionary technology also helps healthy individual boost their brain potential. People looking to destress after a hard day, to improve their sleep quality or just to expand their cognitive capacity all benefit from training with Neurofeedback for a couple of minutes a day.
Read MoreTo start 201 9 in the best possible way, we compile some tips from Hippocrates on how te head a healthier life. Often considered the “Father of Medicine", Hippocrates was a Greek physician from the Age of Pericles (around Fifth-Century Athens) who figured out some of the most important ways we can stay healthy.
Read MoreThe presence of parasites (or what I think are parasites) is the most persistent and greatest problem that I face. I've tried a half-dozen MDs, osteopaths, a dozen acupuncturists, a TCM parasite specialist, bodywork, chiropractors, craniosacral, Ayurvedic, Amazonian shamans, specialized TCM practitioners in South Korea, and I tried remedies from an intuitive homeopath over the internet.
Read MoreEarlier this summer I had the opportunity to spend almost four weeks in Zagreb, Croatia receiving treatment from the PlasamaSaal team. The team of four is run by Aaron who became interested in medicine after contracting a seemingly incurable parasite that migrated to his brain. Doctors told him that there was no safe pharmaceutical for him to take. Any pill might carry the side-effect of death, and thus there was no remedy. He eventually found a machine called the Plasma Wave, a German-made machine based on technology that’s nearly 100 years old. They have since expanded into using other machines that sit between Western Medicine and alternative medicine as well as hypnosis-talk therapy and aerial yoga.
Read MoreI looked for Reiki practitioners in Zagreb on a whim. The first result found a spa that was charging $120/session. Lol. A little steep. The second person had a very poorly designed website. I contacted him over email and he offered to have me come to his house.
Read MoreFor seven years now I have been fighting and testing positive for parasites. In 2011 I went to Mexico City for an internship. Two days after I returned I began bi-hourly diarrhea. Several tests for pathogens including parasites were all negative but after two weeks spent in the bathroom and bed I was given the commonly prescribed anti-parasitic, Flagyl, from an infectious-disease doctor.
Read MoreZagreb might be where you have your layover, but it’s probably not on your itinerary. The beach cities like Dubrovnik and Split seem to get all of the love. An acquaintance stopped by for four hours during a layover and told me that she felt like she’d seen everything. I had to tell her it’s one of the rare cities that gets better with time.
Read MoreCroatia is big right now. Yacht week. Hot beach destinations. It’s the it place for your Instagram story in Europe. And that was before they got to the final of the World Cup.
Read MoreThroughout the years, Brazilian culture has learned how to harvest this natural abundance into their culinary. Here are some of their most loved (and healthiest) dishes and where you can find them during your next visit to the tropics.
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