by Brian Balke | Jan 27, 2023 | Health Care
The medical community has warned for decades that stress shortens our life span. As a preventative, they have advised us to exercise and invest in community. But what happens when stress is a habit formed in childhood? Some parents are unprepared for the demands of...
by Brian Balke | May 13, 2021 | Basics
The movie “Inside Out” reinforces the idea that emotions are all in your head. They are not. Emotions are your organic response to experience. They involve hormones and blood flow and muscle tension and more – all contributing to create subtle...
by Brian Balke | Jul 28, 2020 | Book Reviews, Mind Management
As infants, we associate isolation with hunger, discomfort, and disorientation. Those outcomes are so powerfully ingrained in the subconscious that we anticipate them when suddenly cut off from those we depend upon. That ache in the pit of the stomach, the tingling in...
by Brian Balke | Mar 23, 2020 | Health Care
Certain English words have features that capture moral principles. “EVIL” is “LIVE” spelled backwards. And in changing “I” to “WE” we make “illness” into “wellness.” COVID-19 has socially isolated...