Nerve-ana is that elusive state that we all look for; a peaceful place with no stress, no ills or pain, and a sense of well-being and contentment.  We can all achieve such a state, by learning how to control our minds to instruct our brains and bodies to perform all of their functions in harmony.  Meditation is a large component of achieving nerve-ana, but it is also about eating right, getting the proper exercise or movement of our bodies, maintaining posture that is the best for our spines to hold our weight, and getting enough sleep.  Follow my blogs to learn about products I think will help you and how you can start to learn to meditate and live a better, healthier life.  Aren't you tired of fad diets, books that claim to have all the answers for your health problems?  Nerve-ana will address this over time, teaching you that our lives are lived on a continuum and we achieve good health by embarking on a life long journey.

Dr. Laurie and I will be blogging about Nerve-ana on a regular basis, follow us as we lead you down the path to good health and contentment.

With the arrival of spring, we might all be well-reminded to stop and smell the flowers.  With our fast paced lives and stressors common to most of us, we need to stop from time to time and take stock of our lives.  Are we happy?  Are we anxious over something that we have no control over?  Are we out of work?  Then, look around and try to see the positive in your life.  If you awoke and got out of bed, that is a good start and better than the alternative!  Sometimes it is very difficult to be grateful for the blessings in our lives when we are trying to hold things together during tough times, especially if it involves our health. 

Most of our patients have chronic conditions and we always stress treatments that can help in the long run and empower you to live a better life.  Finding the time to take care of yourself, meditate, exercise, eat right, sleep, can all be difficult.  But if we take our supplements or whatever it is that we need to do to stay healthy, we are taking a small step toward keeping our minds and bodies in good working order:  a must for those of us dealing with the inevitable challenges of modern life. 

So take some time this weekend to reflect on your life and how you live it.  Stop, find a flower, smell its fragrance and then smile. 

Yesterday was a blast!  Dr. Laurie and I took a little field trip to Connecticut to broadcast our first live radio show together.  The show was on FTNS.co, an internet fitness radio program.  We were guests on the "diabesity solution", and were able to talk about the connection between diabetes, obesity and Alzheimer's disease.  Take home points were basically that prevention of diabetes should start as early as possible because we know that having diabetes doubles your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease and also that symptoms of memory dysfunction can start 10 or more years before diagnosis of outright Alzheimer's!

Just by making some simple changes to your diet can radically improve you overall health as well as the functioning of your brain.  Remember, your brain uses A LOT of fuel and has to have the proper balance of energy and vitamins which we get largely from what we eat.  To learn more about this, come to our first wellness open house on Tuesday, April 24th at 6:15pm here at our neurOasis office.  You can also check out our podcast of the radio show from the "news" section of our website.  See you on the 24th!