https://www.futurehealth.org/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 Tools, information and inspiration to transform yourself and the planet -- to go beyond not sick to optimal health and functioning -- a unique resource for biofeedback, neurofeedback, QEEG, appliedpsychophysiology, consciousness, stress and pain management, consciousness, personal transformation -- a source of cutting edge meetings, information, instruments, systems, books, tapes, supplies, training, and consultation for professionals and consumers alike. en-us Copyright 2026 Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:53:51 -0400 Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:53:51 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://www.futurehealth.org/populum/pthemes/futurehealth/images/rssbanner.png https://www.futurehealth.org/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 152 149 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/When-Consciousness-Becomes-by-Vijayaraghavan-Pad-101205-466.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/When-Consciousness-Becomes-by-Vijayaraghavan-Pad-101205-466.html Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan Since the structure-consciousness link can work the other way round, one can postulate that changes in consciousness can produce modifications in the gene structure. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Human-Side-of-Neurofee-by-Colleen-Roberts-100308-140.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Human-Side-of-Neurofee-by-Colleen-Roberts-100308-140.html Colleen Roberts This article gives an easy to understand description of neurofeedback and how it benefited my niece Suzy Johnson, who suffered from ADHD. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Futurehealth-Spring-Cleani-by-Rob-Kall-Biofeedback-160421-683.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Futurehealth-Spring-Cleani-by-Rob-Kall-Biofeedback-160421-683.html Rob Kall Futurehealth has accumulated many items over its 36 years in business.------We're doing a spring cleaning sale offering over 80 different items-- hardware, software, EEG electrodes, cables, stand-alone instruments, computer hardware-- EEG, EMG, Thermal, GSR, EEG electrode checkers, books, CDs, DVDs. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Suicide-Prevention--Does-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Culture_Double-Standards_Health_Housing-150913-378.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Suicide-Prevention--Does-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Culture_Double-Standards_Health_Housing-150913-378.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona Are psychiatric services successful in preventing suicide or do we actually cause more suicides than would otherwise happen. We create a culture of helplessness in which people expect rescue and do not believe they are in control of their actions. They can attempt suicide thinking they will be saved, but can miscalculate and accidentally die. An Australian man stopped 160 suicides by giving people breakfast. Is this better? https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Excerpt-from-Coyote-Wisdom-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-101031-579.html Sun, 30 Jul 6947 13:18:00 -0400 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Excerpt-from-Coyote-Wisdom-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-101031-579.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona This excerpt tells the story of my work with Tiffany, a young woman with cancer who was from the Christian faith and how we used Meister Eckhart as a way to bridge my Native American philosophies with Christianity to create a healing dialogue throughout the course of her cancer. this seems like an important story to me because it shows how we can create healing (meaning and purpose) even when the patient dies. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/How-Technology-is-Assistin-by-Lewis-Corbitt-Care_Health_Medical_Technology-141010-110.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/How-Technology-is-Assistin-by-Lewis-Corbitt-Care_Health_Medical_Technology-141010-110.html Lewis Corbitt Blast injuries from Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDS) and other forms of blasts and explosions have caused closed head injuries and trauma to over 178,000 service men and women serving in our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These injuries are called Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI). The future of treatments and aids to patients suffering from TBI, and to include a possible cure for TBI lay in interactive technology. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-6-Hour-Solution-to-Wor-by-Helen-Gibbons-Affect_Anxiety_Autogenic-Training_Autogenic-Training-141010-163.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-6-Hour-Solution-to-Wor-by-Helen-Gibbons-Affect_Anxiety_Autogenic-Training_Autogenic-Training-141010-163.html Helen Gibbons Helen Gibbons, Chief Psychologist and pioneer of Autogenic Training in Australia,discusses the benefits of Autogenic Training in combating work stress, particularly in the Mining and other high risk industries. Developed by German Neuroscientist Dr Schultz, AT is backed by over 3,000 clinical studies worldwide and is used by NASA astronauts to help them adapt to the physical and psycholocial stressors of space travel. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/A-Mother-s-Auto-antibodies-by-Frank-J-Granett-R-Adhd_Autism_Brain_Brain-141010-505.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/A-Mother-s-Auto-antibodies-by-Frank-J-Granett-R-Adhd_Autism_Brain_Brain-141010-505.html Frank J. Granett R.ph. Link between auto-antibodies in mothers and cases of autism and ADHD in children. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Alpha-Theta-Neurotherapy-A-by-Nancy-White-100203-271.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Alpha-Theta-Neurotherapy-A-by-Nancy-White-100203-271.html Nancy White Alpha-Theta Neurotherapy, has been found in clinical practice, as in the original work of Elmer and Alyce Green and further developed by Eugene Peniston and described in his original research, to reduce or eliminate alcoholic craving while simultaneously addressing mental, emotional, physical and, at times, spiritual dimensions of alcoholism and surrounding issues. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Nanglyala-Mental-Health-Ce-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-110330-9.html Thu, 30 Jul 3035 13:01:47 -0400 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Nanglyala-Mental-Health-Ce-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-110330-9.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona I write about the composite mental health center I have created in previous essays which comes from my and others' experiences working in mental health in New York State. I call it Nanglyala Mental Health Center, in honor of the Russian word for Valhalla, which one can't use, for it actually exists. I propose a thought experiment in changing the culture at NMHC, which I hope someone somewhere will be inspired to do. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Heroes-Joseph-Campbell-a-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Healing_Health_Hero_Heroes-161118-774.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Heroes-Joseph-Campbell-a-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Healing_Health_Hero_Heroes-161118-774.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona The hero's journey begins with the call to adventure. Jordan Peterson writes that life exists within explored and unexplored territory both inside and outside of the mind. A narrative crisis occurs when our story (map of meaning) is inadequate to explain an anomaly. Heroism sets the hero apart from the group. Identification with the hero serves to decrease the unbearable motivational valence of the unknown. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-difficulty-of-practici-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Exercise_Healing_Health_Health-150907-90.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-difficulty-of-practici-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Exercise_Healing_Health_Health-150907-90.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona I look at the stories that people hold about their lives that sometimes work against them. I tell the story of a driven man whom I warned 25 years earlier that he might drop dead if he didn't take a break, and discover that he did, in his fifties. I discuss the problems we face in medicine, how to help people change their stories that are leading them toward illness. This is one of the hallmarks of narrative medicine. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Psychology-of-Family-by-Saberi-Roy-101118-18.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Psychology-of-Family-by-Saberi-Roy-101118-18.html Saberi Roy On the need to study family structures and family interactions in the Psychology of Family https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Hearing-Voices-and-Seeing-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-101210-528.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Hearing-Voices-and-Seeing-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-101210-528.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona Once upon a time, in most of the world's societies, hearing voices and seeing visions was honored and desired. In contemporary, modern culture it has become the one symptom that allows an immediate diagnosis of a psychotic disorder. In this essay, I write about the downside of pathologizing voices, while still acknowledging that many people suffer enormously from voices and negative visions. I describe how to be healing. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Talking-to-Animals-what-s-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Dialogue_Education_Harmony_Medicine-150118-669.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Talking-to-Animals-what-s-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Dialogue_Education_Harmony_Medicine-150118-669.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona We reflect on the winter buffalo hunt ceremonies of the Northern Plains and the ways in which humans communicated with animals, negotiating with them to cooperate in being hunted. This leads us to modern day attempts to communicate with animals, including studies from Northern Arizona University that decode the meaning of prairie dog chirps and efforts to talk to the great apes. We ask what is the point? What do learn? https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/From-Technostress-to-Techn-by-Erik-Peper-081114-333.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/From-Technostress-to-Techn-by-Erik-Peper-081114-333.html Erik Peper work stress, caused by long hours, sitting at computer stations, causes pain and worst-- technostress-- even with ergonomic interventions. This program added coaching and self regulation biofeedback training to produce enhanced health-- technohealth. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-First-and-Second-Dart-by-Rick-Hanson-PH-D-100610-242.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-First-and-Second-Dart-by-Rick-Hanson-PH-D-100610-242.html Rick Hanson PH.D. To borrow an expression from the Buddha, inescapable physical or mental discomfort is the "first dart" of existence. As long as you live and love, some of those darts will come your way.----First darts are unpleasant to be sure. But then we add our reactions to them. These reactions are "second darts"--the ones we throw ourselves. Most of our suffering comes from second darts. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Community-Revisited-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-100607-254.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Community-Revisited-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-100607-254.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona Each of us is a neuron in a social brain. We need connectedness to each other to regulate our moods. I propose that the current explosion in the rates of diagnosis of anxiety disorders, depression, and bipolar disorder is relted to our lack of connectedness. We no longer have other people to regulate our moods and emotions. Alternatives to isolation are available and desirable but require us to relinguish some freedom. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Bringing-Magic-Back-to-a-M-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Affect_Coherence_Healing_Health-141010-532.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Bringing-Magic-Back-to-a-M-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Affect_Coherence_Healing_Health-141010-532.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona We need to bring magic back into our modern, materialistic world. While ultimately magic will have a scientific description, it will probably take place at the quantum level, which few of us can understand. Therefore, we are left to marvel at the way energy moves matter, at how our participation in each others electrical fields of our hearts creates coherence and even health and well-being. We are left to wonder and awe. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Neurology-of-Biofeedba-by-Mariella-Fischer-W-100206-69.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Neurology-of-Biofeedba-by-Mariella-Fischer-W-100206-69.html Mariella Fischer-Williams, MD, FRCP People commonly ask the questions : "Why?", "How does a thing work?" and "How can I fix it?". I do not attempt to answer "Why?" because it is a metaphysical question. Much of this article answers the question of "How can I fix it?".--I shall mainly describe "How does the brain work?" which I freely acknowledge is an immodest goal.-- The nervous system is built upon a living network of feedback, constantly adapting https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Make-Way-for-the-Energy-of-by-Elaine-Seiler-120321-487.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Make-Way-for-the-Energy-of-by-Elaine-Seiler-120321-487.html Elaine Seiler Author and energetics expert Elaine Seiler shares 5 tips For energetic spring clearing. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Improving-the-Quality-of-H-by-Vijayaraghavan-Pad-110501-893.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Improving-the-Quality-of-H-by-Vijayaraghavan-Pad-110501-893.html Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan Faith is essential for healing to take place regardless of the kind of treatment that is actually given. Where there is faith, the feeling is positive and this helps the body's built-in mechanisms of healing. The quality of health care would eventually depend on how well the various aspects of health care are synchronized to supplement and support the central nature of faith and the hidden reality of mind-body-spirit medicine. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Neurofeedback-Growth-and-by-lincoln-stoller-100405-821.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Neurofeedback-Growth-and-by-lincoln-stoller-100405-821.html lincoln stoller I describe a holistic approach to changing addictive behaviors based on neurofeedback with elements common to the therapies of indigenous cultures.--The transformative journey does not have to be terrifying, though it will be disturbing, confusing, and probably dangerous. Perhaps, in the end, it's not even a choice. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Inflammatory-Theory-of-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-120801-604.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Inflammatory-Theory-of-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-120801-604.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona In this article, I describe a way of thinking about depression that makes sense of how we collapse from too much stress and from unremitting anxiety and misery. In this theory, eventually life overwhelms our capacity to resist inflammation and it runs away. From August 16th through the 19th, catch me in Hartford, Connecticut, to further discuss these ideas. For details, see https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Wearable-Diabetes-Treatmen-by-Jose-Calvo-Diabetes_Products-200131-402.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Wearable-Diabetes-Treatmen-by-Jose-Calvo-Diabetes_Products-200131-402.html Jose Calvo Two new wearable diabetes treatments were at CES 2020. We cover their advantages and limitations. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Sweat-Lodge-Prayer-and-C-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-110222-672.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Sweat-Lodge-Prayer-and-C-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-110222-672.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona Prayer and community have been stripped away from contemporary health care. Both are sorely needed. I talk about the sweat lodge ceremony as being a laboratory for exposing mainstream healthcare practitioners to the perspective on health and the world of Native American people and show how it produces the kind of connectedness and sense of belonging that we desperately need and which is associated with greater health. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Accountability-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-110904-246.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Accountability-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-110904-246.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona This essay is about accountability. In the community mental health center where I have been working, most of the patients lack any sense of self-agency or accountability. Most see themselves as helpless victims of diseases over which they have no influence. They expect me to provide them with a drug that will regulate their moods and emotions and make them feel normal again. What does it take to restore a sense of agency? https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Reflections-upon-transitio-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-110907-92.html Tue, 30 Jul 0644 13:15:42 -0456 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Reflections-upon-transitio-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-110907-92.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona Just over 2 months ago I left the public mental health sector in New York to transition into private practice in Vermont. This article reflects upon those two months of changes and wonders what we can learn from the type of care available in Vermont compared to New York and from New York's apparent discrimination against paying private practitioners in favor of community mental health centers. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Suicide-and-Mental-Health-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-110311-377.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Suicide-and-Mental-Health-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-110311-377.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona Lewis and Coyote Institute are on Day 2 of an Australian journey which is a cross-cultural exchange about ideas for mind and mental health. Today we focused upon suicide which elders told us was rare in Australia prior to European contact, but now, all to common. We focused upon suicide as a modern non-indigenous template for the communication of suffering which sometimes backfires leading to accidental death. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Why-Learn-Neuroscience-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-101021-100.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Why-Learn-Neuroscience-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-101021-100.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona A student asked me why she needed to know neuroscience. Here is my answer. I argue that science is the new story with which we must contend. If we do not know the contemporary stories of science, they will be used against us. The actual stories being told today about the brain are quite uplifting, full of hope. They include neuroplasticity and epigenetics. If we know these stories we can fight against bad neuroscience. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Sorcery-For-Scientists-by-lincoln-stoller-111020-883.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Sorcery-For-Scientists-by-lincoln-stoller-111020-883.html lincoln stoller An exhortation to expand your understanding beyond the bounds of reason. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/NICABM-and-MInd-Body-Medic-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-100804-670.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/NICABM-and-MInd-Body-Medic-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-100804-670.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona I reflect upon the contributions of the National Institute for the Clinical Advancement of Mind-Body Medicine toward furthering the field. At their upcoming conference this December, prominent are newer ideas of neuroplasticity and chronic pain. Through the understanding that pain circuitry in the brain are remodeled by the experience of pain so as to make people feel more pain, we can refute old ideas of pain. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Reflections-on-Teaching-St-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-111204-790.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Reflections-on-Teaching-St-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-111204-790.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona I have the role of being the statistics teacher for a graduate psychology program in which students don't like statistics. I discover my hidden assumptions about students which may be relevant to life and to psychotherapy also. I reflect upon our attitudes toward math in North America and how different that is from Asian cultures. I reflect upon some students' resistance to problem-based learning and what that means. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-5-Myths-of-Acupuncture-by-Dr-Kathleen-Alber-100518-551.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-5-Myths-of-Acupuncture-by-Dr-Kathleen-Alber-100518-551.html Dr. Kathleen Albertson, L. Ac., PhD Does acupuncture hurt? Do I need to continue treatment forever? Is ther physiological change in the body?--This article dispels some of your questions and puts to rests the myths surrounding this 5000-year-old holistic health science. Yes, acupuncture has been in existence for 5000 years; compared to western medicine that is just over 200 years old.--It has stood the test of time. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Using-Life-Metaphors-in-Ga-by-Ash-Rehn-100516-838.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Using-Life-Metaphors-in-Ga-by-Ash-Rehn-100516-838.html Ash Rehn Metaphors provide a way for clients and therapists to work in partnership in counselling and psychotherapy. This article examines the use of metaphors in gay counselling to assist clients to come to their own interpretations and start finding answers and solutions to problems about relationships, friendship and trust. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Integrative-Mental-Health-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-100329-12.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Integrative-Mental-Health-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-100329-12.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona A recent conference in Arizona on Integrative Mental Health highlighted how poorly our current mental health care system is working. The conference was full of passion for changing our system and for incorporating nutrition, exercise, yoga, and psychotherapy into our work to improve effectiveness. More time with people is necessary and health care reform needs to reimburse that time. Indigenous mental health ideas show us... https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Insurance-Should-Pat-For-H-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-100321-147.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Insurance-Should-Pat-For-H-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-100321-147.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona Numerous studies have shown that 80% of primary care visits to health care practitioners involve the ordinary suffering of daily life and not diseases that need treatment, yet we throw pills and potions at these woes as if that is their solution. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Words-Are-Medicine-Raisin-by-Judith-Acosta-090930-759.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Words-Are-Medicine-Raisin-by-Judith-Acosta-090930-759.html Judith Acosta When you use Verbal First Aid with your children, they are learning by your example to use it for themselves. The healing you facilitate in them by the words you use when they are hurt becomes a self-replenishing well of mental, emotional and physical resources they can draw upon for a lifetime. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Finding-Magic-in-a-Muggle-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Change_Future_Healing_Nature-141219-686.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Finding-Magic-in-a-Muggle-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Change_Future_Healing_Nature-141219-686.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona What is magic in a muggle world? We recently conducted a workshop to explore that question. First, what arose was the idea our thoughts could influence the future to which we are headed. What if our visualizations could change the direction in which we are headed. What is really magic is the power we have to influence others. We have power to uplift. We have power to give hope when there is none. This is real magic. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Researcher-Seeks-Married-C-by-Steven-Kassel-091218-116.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Researcher-Seeks-Married-C-by-Steven-Kassel-091218-116.html Steven Kassel Research trials have begun on an innovative research project which examines the additive therapeutic effect of two existing evidence-based techniques, marital therapy and biofeedback. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Defining-Coyote-Psychother-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Body_Community_Healing_Health-141102-270.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Defining-Coyote-Psychother-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Body_Community_Healing_Health-141102-270.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona In the recent meetings of the Institute for Psychiatric Services in San Francisco, Barbara Mainguy and I presented material on how we work with psychosis. We are exploring what it is that we do, and we know that it is inspired by indigenous elders, that it is centered on the body, which registers our traumas and stresses, that we are wedded to the idea of story occurring in a social context so that we are embedded with others. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Because-my-Mom-was-Autisti-by-Tsara-Shelton-Aspergers_Autism_Autistic-Spectrum-Disorder_Family-150118-94.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Because-my-Mom-was-Autisti-by-Tsara-Shelton-Aspergers_Autism_Autistic-Spectrum-Disorder_Family-150118-94.html Tsara Shelton Most lives have recurring themes. Baseball, cancer, music, science, sexual abuse etc. Most families can point to things they have experienced and learned from over and over. It doesn't have to be something that happens all the time, but something that continually teaches or challenges. Our family has had a few themes, the loudest being autism. In this article I share a few of the life lessons autism challenged us to learn. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Waking-from-the-Trance-of-by-Catherine-Al-Meten-Anxiety_Compassion_Control_Emotions-141010-167.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Waking-from-the-Trance-of-by-Catherine-Al-Meten-Anxiety_Compassion_Control_Emotions-141010-167.html Catherine Al-Meten Article about using meditation as a way to deal with unworthiness and self hatred. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Brain-Broad-Builds-A-B-by-Tsara-Shelton-Mental-Health_Mental-Illness_Mental-Training_Neurofeedback-141010-558.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Brain-Broad-Builds-A-B-by-Tsara-Shelton-Mental-Health_Mental-Illness_Mental-Training_Neurofeedback-141010-558.html Tsara Shelton Lynette Louise aka The Brain Broad (aka my mom) has a brand new podcast. Inviting a different guest with a history of brain knowledge for every episode, together they'll explore a mental disorder chosen at random. With creativity, brain science, and out of the box thinking they discuss what might be done to help that brain using all the tools in their toolbox. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Power-of-Thought-by-Buryl-payne-Meditation_Meditation_War-150118-315.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Power-of-Thought-by-Buryl-payne-Meditation_Meditation_War-150118-315.html Buryl payne Power of thought https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Anxiety-Anger-Depression-by-Hershel-Toomim-090723-101.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Anxiety-Anger-Depression-by-Hershel-Toomim-090723-101.html Hershel Toomim This study revealed two candidate pathways from cortical receipt of a stimulus to activity of the amygdala. An excitatory pathway was found through the orbito-frontal cortex. Another emotional regulator pathway was found via the right inferior lateral prefrontal cortex. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Can-We-Reinvent-Ourselves-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Change_Culture_Dialogue_Family-150222-961.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Can-We-Reinvent-Ourselves-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Change_Culture_Dialogue_Family-150222-961.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona I ask the question, can we reinvent ourselves? I believe we can by becoming aware of the stories that we have absorbed which tell us how to live our lives. Through our interaction with others, we can modify those stories to become more effective and satisfying. We absorb stories through being born into a family, a place, a culture. We habitually perform those stories because we don't know better. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Hero-s-Journey-and-The-by-Rob-Kall-Biofeedback_Biofeedback-Spa_Biofeedback-Neurofeedback_Brain-141010-609.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/The-Hero-s-Journey-and-The-by-Rob-Kall-Biofeedback_Biofeedback-Spa_Biofeedback-Neurofeedback_Brain-141010-609.html Rob Kall Here's a short summary of my take how story and the Hero's Journey plays an integral role in biofeedback: https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/How-we-treat-is-more-impor-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Depression_Health_Health_Medicine-140527-463.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/How-we-treat-is-more-impor-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Depression_Health_Health_Medicine-140527-463.html Lewis Mehl-Madrona The way we relate to people is more important than what we do in both medicine and psychiatry. Randomized, clinical trials of the drug, citalopram, for geriatric depression, for example, showed that where a patient got treated mattered more than what drug they received. The response rate to citalopram varied from 16% to 82% among 15 hospitals. The time is nigh to improve the human elements in what we do be more helpful. https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Virtual-Therapy-The-Futur-by-Eric-Silver-Mental-Health-Therapy_Online-Therapy_Therapy-190926-704.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.futurehealth.org/articles/Virtual-Therapy-The-Futur-by-Eric-Silver-Mental-Health-Therapy_Online-Therapy_Therapy-190926-704.html Eric Silver As technology constantly improves, it continues to disrupt every industry. Therapy is no different. How will technology affect the massive mental health category?