December is considered the season of giving. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, gift-giving is part of each celebration, despite each originating from a different faith basis. In Christian tradition, for example, giving presents comes from the three wise men traveling great dista...
In November we celebrate Thanksgiving, one of our favorite holidays here at Neuroshifts! It's a beautiful season when we can practice the Green Zone emotion of "Appreciation." When we are in the Green Zone, we experience the greatest place of emotional well-being. Appreciation is at the very top of ...
Fall is a season typically associated with the many visible changes that occur around us. Temperatures and humidity drop, the days begin to shorten and we recognize that a shift is taking place. As we watch the trees release their leaves, we, too, can prepare for change by letting go of those things...
If you want to know what you have predominantly been thinking about, look around you! What are you experiencing in your life right now? Do you have a magical life filled with awe and wonder, or is your life filled with worry and fear? If it's the latter, the good news is that the power to change you...
"I am not enough" is one of the most common and limiting statements people tell themselves. It stems from a place of not feeling good enough about themselves or unworthy of deserving what they want. When we believe this statement, it can negatively affect anything we try to do or create in our lives...
If you are unsure about what you are thinking about, just look around to see if you are surrounded by mostly positive or negative people and situations. Ralph Waldo Emerson expressed it as, “You become what you think about all day long.”
If you want to change what you see around you or are experien...
Self-love is essential to our well-being. How we think about ourselves and how we treat ourselves impacts both our mental and physical health. Yet, despite the amount of time we spend thinking about loving others love in our lives, it never ceases to surprise me how little time we spend treating our...
If you read any book or see any movie, there is always a hero in the story. Usually, that hero encounters many obstacles and challenges throughout their journey. If you are like me, you find yourself rooting for them and hoping they find their way, no matter how difficult the circumstances may seem....
One of the things that is most common in the human experience is having a feeling of unworthiness, which translates to feeling like you are not enough or that there is something wrong with you. This feeling can keep good things from flowing into your life and can keep us stuck in a place of self-cri...
Have you ever heard the expression “that which you focus on expands”? If you’ve never heard that expression, or never really thought about the importance of focus and what it can do for your life, it might be a good time to do so now.
For those of you who are Star Wars fans, you may remember in the...
Today, the stigma of Autism is alive and well! All we need to do to verify this is to Google the word “Autism” to see the results. Almost everything related to autism defines it by its challenges and negative outcomes. Things such as high unemployment rates, low independent living rates, lack of fun...
Are you on the Autism Spectrum or have a child that’s been diagnosed? Then this gives you an opportunity to use the principle of “Seek first to Understand”. This applies to gaining an understanding of ourselves as well as our child.
In the bible in the book of Proverbs it says "Seek first to unders...
