Rebelations
Rebelations shares insights about the power of your mind.
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Wired for Connection: The Science Behind Love
Love is all around us at this time of year. lBut ove isn’t just an abstract concept for romance novels or the holidays—it’s a scientifically measurable phenomenon with marked effects on the mind and body.
The Neurological Superpower Called Hope
Hope isn’t just a fleeting emotion or wishful thinking. Neuroscience reveals it’s a dynamic, measurable force that profoundly influences the brain, body, and overall well-being.
The Neuroscience of Gratitude: Unlocking the Power of Appreciation
Gratitude is more than a feel-good sentiment. Neuroscience shows that gratitude rewires your mind, strengthening emotional resilience, reducing stress, and boosting happiness.
Use Your Mind to Turn Frustration into Fascination
We’ve all felt frustration, the equivalent of banging your head repeatedly against a wall. Here’s the thing. Frustration doesn’t just feel bad—it distorts how your mind processes information. How can you shift out of frustration? It’s easier than you think…
How to Protect Yourself from AI Manipulation
AI has the powerful potential to manipulate and control our beliefs and behaviors. These are the methods I use to protect my mind from conscious and unconscious AI manipulation.
How Your Mind Shifts When Life Spins Out of Control
We are wired with an innate fear of being out of control. When trigged, this fear of losing controldoesn’t happen in the abstract. It activates your mind's survival mechanisms, setting off a cascade of responses that can linger long after the initial crisis.
Your Brain on Stress
Traditional science assumed that neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to rewire itself—ended by ~age 25. Modern research shows that this is far from true.
Your First Answer Isn’t Your Best
We’re all taught to seek the best answer—to business issues, professional challenges, and personal dilemmas. In today’s fast-paced world, there’s a constant push to find that answer as quickly as possible. After all, finding the solution fast is how we win, right?Not so fast.
My Mind Made Me Do It
A story about how we spin our reality to match what we believe and expect, based on our past experiences. We see, feel, and hear what we expect—even if what we see, feel, and hear has nothing to do with reality. And we wonder why history repeats itself?
3 Surefire Ways to Influence Everyone
What if you could influence everyone you meet? Create that immediate sense of trust, or rapport, that leads to more powerful and immediate relationships?
You can.
Your Quantum Mind
We all know that our decisions influence our lives. Turn left or right? Blue pill or red pill? Our choices in every nanosecond influence our next experience, and the next and the next. That’s called the Many Worlds Theory of quantum mechanics in action.
The Power We Forgot
We have the power to shift; from surviving to thriving, feeling unworthy to knowing we are unstoppable. Our minds are designed to give us the ability to influence our experience. We’ve just forgotten how to use our minds to design our futures.
A Glossary to Your Mind
There are so many new terms around neuroscience, as well as unfamiliar aspects of ancient wisdom and the esoteric sciences. This glossary shares short definitions of key terms in neuroscience, ancient wisdom, philosophy, quantum mechanics and computing and more.
Understanding Your Mindware
Neuroscience and quantum physics research tells us, if you focus long enough, hard enough and often enough, you can change your neural pathways and brain circuitry. Those neural pathways and circuitry are scientific descriptions of what I call mindware.
We Are Not Broken
For a lot of my life, I believed I was broken. I was a really smart kid, broken. As an adult, I lived a roller coaster life that. broke me physically and emotionally. When I recovered my stunning childhood memories, I knew I was broken forever.
Those 3am Wakeups
My 3am voices loved to taunt me, sharing painful visions of my life crumbling. The bag lady on the street. Years of therapy later I was still living on that street in the deep of night. Today, the choir of voices is quiet. Only an occasional drumbeat to silence.
What Would You Do if You Knew You Were Unstoppable?
You weren’t born with the fear and limitations you carry today. You were born to believe in your unstoppable potential. What the hell happened?
The Pearls In Your Mind
What if I told you that you have pearls in your mind that help define your day to day experiences? You do, and they aren’t always pearls of wisdom.
Until you learn how to polish them up!
Whose Beliefs Run Your Life?
We all have beliefs. We’re attractive, strong, healthy, successful, intelligent, aging well, corny, superior… or not. Here’s the thing. A lot of your beliefs are not really yours. It gets interesting when you start to sort through them.
Suicide In My Mind
The first time I tried to commit suicide I was 8 years old. I tried to overdose on baby aspirin. Mom and the doctor thought it was an accident, I thought the aspirin was candy. It wasn’t and I didn’t. I tried again…
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