Tao in the Woods When I lived in Atlanta, our property backed up to a wonderful forest preserve. Going through our back fence we could walk miles and never know we were in the middle of a major metropolitan area. Shortly after we arrived, we got a Border Collie puppy we named Tao because he […]
Uncovering the High-Performance Brain Looking a different direction During this same period there began to appear a QEEG literature focusing on the so-called High Performance brain. Meditators, monks, high-level athletes, top-gun pilots and others provided QEEG’s. Where the normative databases tried to cobble together a pointillist view of the brain made up of hundreds of […]
The Brain as a Car Intelligence If your brain were a car, intelligence would be the horsepower of the motor. What you train when you train your brain is the transmission. You can have a 400-horsepower engine, but if your transmission only has first gear, you can’t take it out on the highway. Transmission is […]
In Search of the “Normal” Brain The Normal Brain Imagine something complex and individual—maybe a micro-ecology between mountains and the sea. It has its own weather patterns—may rain more in that area than 5 miles away. Temperatures may be very different. Birds and insects that live there may not do well on the other side […]
The Story of the Tree Many years ago, when I first moved to Atlanta Georgia, we bought a house that had a great old tree in the backyard. Unfortunately, by the time we got the house, the tree was not looking very healthy, so we set about trying to figure out how to help it. […]
The Emergence of the Trainable Brain The Brain is our Sun Now we recognize our brains as the center of a system that extends into our bodies, produces the phenomenon we call mind and may even create the universe in which we live. Our senses send a constant flow of information to be screened, integrated, […]
Common Sense Caveats Garbage in/Garbage out People who take in 15-second “news” stories, communicate in brief “texts” on their phones, play highly stimulating video games or watch quick-cut movies and television programs—and especially those who do more than one of these things at the same time—develop brains that don’t process language very well, that can’t […]
Brain Magic – Making your life come true Quick and Easy Results When you watch a skilled magician at work, making things happen that seemed impossible only moments before, it looks effortless. But anyone who’s ever practiced magic knows it’s not. You learn basic skills, you practice moves, until the sum of small improvements eventually […]