Chronic Illness Q&A with Dr. B.
This question & answer column is for people living with chronic health challenges and their family caregivers, who want to learn to increase the odds of improving their health by learning to live with mastery & wellbeing.
I invite you…
Video: Mind Training Cures Depression
Never do anything you don't want to do. The most powerful mindfulness practice is to consciously choose everything you do from moment-to-moment. Eliminate all toxic words from your language—words such as have to, must, got to, can't, should,…
How Your Thinking Affects Your Health Part 1 of 3
Every change in your emotional state leads to a cascade of hormones and neurotransmitter substances, and can effect changes in the shape, voltage, and biochemistry of cell membrane receptors, and those changes influence gene expression.…
Skills Not Pills Part 2
Simple Behavioral Changes and Physiological Functioning
Even the simplest of behavioral changes such as varying our posture serve to alter cognition, emotion, and physiological functioning. For example, when we stand tall, we feel better…
Chronic Illness Q&A with Dr. B.
This question & answer column is for people living with chronic health challenges, who want to learn to increase the odds of improving their health by learning to live with mastery & wellbeing.
I invite you to post your questions…
Meaning & Purpose Improve Health
Practice Cultivating Meaning and Purpose
The terms meaning and purpose often appear together. For our discussion here, I would frame their relationship this way: acting with purpose entails taking an action that is of sufficient importance…
Q&A Ask Dr. B.
This question & answer column is for people living with chronic health challenges, who want to learn to increase the odds of improving their health by learning to live with mastery & wellbeing.
I invite you to post your questions…
Awareness of Choice Improves Health and Wellbeing
Awareness of Behavior Leads to Awareness of Choice.
The goal is to increase awareness of our behavior in order to assess, throughout the day, whether our behavior is the most effective behavior to help us meet our needs and goals.
Also,…
Chronic Illness Q&A with Dr. B.
This new question & answer column is for people living with chronic health challenges, who want to learn to live with mastery & wellbeing. I invite you to post your questions in the comments box below and I will answer them on a future…