Sometimes the moment you think you know what’s real, life shows you another possibility. Do you think your thoughts are real? Do you think your feelings are real? How can you know for sure? There are people, diagnosed with Dissociative identity disorder (DID), who have two or more distinct personalities. They will switch from one personality to another. Not only …

One day, maybe one that has already passed, you’ll be standing in front of a mirror surprised or incredulous and ask yourself: How did I get here? ‘Here’ might be the way you look, the way you feel or the way you move. Without judgement, you will be observing your habitual state. Your habitual state is made of what you …

I’d like to begin describing what the natural state is by asking you to shift your focus to your breathing for a moment. Just watch it as if you were watching a movie, don’t change your breathing. Watch how it enters your body and how it exits. Notice how your body expands and “deflates” as you breath. If you happen …

The other day a relatively new patient was trying to wrap her head around her experiences so far at the Happy Spine. She had come in with chronic high blood pressure and was feeling very curious as to why her blood pressure has normalized. She has also noticed more of her inner moods, thoughts and feelings and how those have …

Imagine trying to bend a steel bar. How much energy would it take for you to try your hardest? How long would you be able to hold that bar trying to bend it? The energy that it would take is immense. Imagine you holding that energy in your body. Have you ever felt like you were going to break? Like …

The human mind is an incredibly powerful resource. If that’s the only resource that we use though, it can end up leaving us feeling depleted and even self-identifying with our thoughts. So how do we break the habit of overthinking and free ourselves to access more of our resources? By focusing on feelings: the good, the bad and the ugly. …

In his address to the United Negro College Fund, whose slogan is “a mind is a terrible thing to waste”, Dan Quayle was quoted as saying: “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.” You might say that there is a time and place to …

Last week we looked at the underlying cause of stress and disease: Emotional patterns and early childhood stresses that are born out of lack of connection, with others and with yourself. How are these patterns learned? There are situations in life that just happen. There’s nothing you can do to change them. You can’t change how your dad was or …

“Most diseases are a result of lifelong emotional patterns and early stresses.” Gabor Mate As with most things, it depends on the lens that you are using to observe, which determines what you see. And if you think that you’re not using a lens, think again:). In the western model of health care, where they use a lens that sees …