BECOMING OURSELVES

Nourished Health Lunch Series

For those of you that love workshops, but also love keeping your weekends free, come to the Lunch & Learn Series at the Nourished Health Wellness Center, in Central Denver. 

Learn ways to create a vibrant lifestyle during your lunch break! Thursdays from 12-1PM.

10/7       Optimize Your Brain
10/14     Change Your Brain, Change Your Life-with Hypnotherapy
10/21     The Whole Person Approach to the Body you Desire
10/28     The Blue Zones’ Secrets to Longevity-Part I  Research by National Geographic
11/4       The Blue Zones’ Secrets to Longevity-Part II
11/11     The Science of Gratitude
11/18     Introduction to Sound Healing

For more information on each topic and to reserve your place at the table, go to Nourished Health Wellness Center. Lunches prepared by Healthy Chef Katie Bauer are available.

Fall Classes at the People House

New location-we are now in Denver and are in the process of creating many personal growth opportunities in various metro locations. Our main website is Technologies of the Self . This blog will continue to list cutting-edge resources for brain optimization and healthy eating.

We have scheduled five classes at the People House for the fall. We will be posting descriptions of each session this week. For more information go to the People House website.

Sept.11     Change Your Body, Change Your Mind, Change                                                     Your Life-with Hypnotherapy

Sept. 18    The Whole Person Approach to the Body you Desire

Oct. 2, 9    Nine Secrets to Healthy Longevity

Nov. 7       Your Body, the Orchestra: A healing experience

Nov. 14    The Science of Gratitude

Pre-registration required. Call 720-202-3078 or email Victoria@technologiesoftheself.org

THE SCIENCE OF GRATITIUDE

Research shows that people who learn to focus on gratitude not only are “flat-out happier”, but are-

    More energetic        Are more determined

    Get more sleep    Feel better about their lives

   Are more likely to help others     Exercise more, and even--

  have fewer illnesses.

Heading into winter, during these challenging times, wouldn’t you like to learn how to give yourself a gratitude intervention?

 

Saturday, November 21   10 am-12 noon         $10

Adams State College-School of Business, Room 142

719-937-2840

Participants will-

1.  Gain an overview of the research conducted by Robert Emmons,PhD that shows the mental and physical benefits of a thankful attitude.

2. Take a Daily Gratitude Inventory (DGI).

3. Take home a list of 10 evidence-based prescriptions to increase one’s gratitude rating in order to experience more health benefits.

Presenter Victoria Bresee, MA, MAR has a master’s of religion from Iliff School of Theology. For the past 20 years she has had a private practice in wellness, offering both unique and time-honored techniques for spiritual, physical and emotional healing.  She will share information from a training she attended with Dr. Emmons, at Loma Linda University, called “Gratitude as a Way of Life: Insights from the Science of Well-Being”. He is the author of Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier.

9 SECRETS TO HEALTHY LONGEVITY

National Geographic scientists and photographers have been traveling to pockets around the world where people live the longest, healthiest lives. Their findings come down to nine common denominators that centenarians from Sardinia to Costa Rica share.

Come Saturday morning, Oct. 17, to watch the fascinating presentation aired on Anderson Cooper 360, showing 3 of the pockets that researchers call the "Blue Zone."

On Saturday morning, Oct. 24, find out how to model your lifestyle after the Blue Zone centenarians and learn ways to add up to 14 more good years to your life with the Power9 secrets to longevity.

Take a quick test to gauge your current life expectancy and get suggestions to become biologically younger in just minutes a day.

"The average American could live up to 14 more good years by putting these habits to work."

Oct. 17   9:30-11:30am    Free video presentation

Oct. 24   9:00-noon     Power9 Longevity Secrets   $15

     Presentation, discussion, vitality tools and techniques

Location:  Adams State College, School of Business, #142, Alamosa

Pre-registration necessary      Call  719-937-2840

Fall Workshops in Alamosa

Advance notice for some fascinating opportunities for spiritual and emotional awareness, new ideas for physical well-being and longevity, and just plain fun! During October, November and December watch for classes starting about Living in the Blue Zone for Longevity, Healthy Gourmet Holiday Meals, The Science of Gratitude, Holiday Presence and more. . . . Classes will be offered in various Alamosa locations. For information call 719-937-2840 or go to Technologies of the Self.

The Marvel of the Brain

I am currently reading Diane Ackerman's poetic and scientific description of the brain, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain. It begins-

"Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredrome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag."

The chapters ahead look so fascinating that it's hard to stop reading.

Our Own Medicine Cabinet

According to Dr. Joan Borysenko, "healing is really the simplest of matters. We heal by becoming truly ourselves, by discovering our wholeness.

The process of healing is one of self-realization. It is a peeling away from the fears, concepts and negativity that obscure the light of our own true nature and its innate essence of compassion, creativity, wisdom and love. As negativity is transformed, the physical body often heals as well.  MORE. . .

Just as our mind affects our body, our body also affects our mind because they are all one. . . Mind and body cannot be separated."

In an interesting segment of the her recent audio CD, The Power of the Mind to Heal, she explains how our "Brains are Like Medicine Cabinets."

Brain Nutrition

Integrative Psychiatry: Mental Symptoms and Nutrients (7/14/06), via Brain Blogger.

"...Nutrients play a critical role in mental health. They are the building blocks of the nervous system. In fact, the brain has first call on the available supply of nutrients. Therefore, the first effects of nutritional deficiencies are often mental symptoms. Deficiencies in almost any of the vitamins and minerals can show up first as emotional or mental symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, or impaired memory and concentration."  MORE . . .