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How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs. Stages of Learning to Say "No" Your rating: None Average: 4 (1 vote) One of the most important skills we can learn that will help us manage and fulfill our priorities is to say "No. " Once we get there, it becomes easier and easier, but initially it can be extremely awkward and unpopular with others.

Knowing the stages we’ll go through can help us realize that what’s happening is natural and that its not just that we can’t seem to do it. Stage 1: Identifying Opportunities In this initial stage we have identified our need to learn to say "No" and have made it a goal. What happens is that we start to identify opportunities that have already past where we could have and should have said "No. " Stage 2: Backing Up This next stage of learning and practicing saying "No" is the most difficult. Stage 3: Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time Within this stage, we have arrived at a place where we are able to say no at the right time: immediately. Author's Bio: Donna Birk is a writer, trainer, coach, and Licensed Social Worker.

The Power of Saying, "No" Your rating: None Average: 4.7 (6 votes) ======================= "No" is such a simple word.... ======================= only two letters. Yet saying "No" out loud is harder for most people than saying, "I'll be glad to... " (eleven letters)or "When do you need me to... " (seventeen letters) Most of us said, "No! " Many of us grow up to be people pleasers. ======================= The unassertive "No" ======================= is accompanied by weak excuses and rationalizations.

You might even make up an excuse to support your "No. " ======================= The aggressive "No" ======================= is done with contempt. Sometimes the aggressive "No" includes an attack on the person making the request. ======================= The assertive "No" ======================= is simple and direct. ======================= Strategies to make the assertive "No" easier ======================= 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Make it a project to say, "No," to something every day.

Build Brain Power with these 21 Resources. Mind. Neuroscience. Smart Drugs. Online international pharmacies 2012. The Good Drug Guide : new mood-brighteners and antidepressants. Tyrosine and amphetamines. Tyrosine influence on amphetamine self-administration and brain catecholamines in the rat by Geis LS, Smith DG, Smith FL, Yu DS, Lyness WH Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1986 Nov; 25(5):1027-33ABSTRACT Earlier work had shown that L-tyrosine administration, precursor to both dopamine (DA) and norepinephrine (NE), could increase brain DA metabolite concentrations after amphetamine treatment and restore amphetamine-induced decreases in whole brain NE. Both monoamines have been suggested to participate in some aspects of continued drug abuse. Rats trained to self-administer IV d-amphetamine were treated with IP tyrosine during test sessions to examine the behavioral and neurochemical response.

In animals with less than 35 days of amphetamine exposure, L-tyrosine treatments did not alter amphetamine self-administration. Amphetamine, methamphetamine and psychostimulants. Viral restoration of dopamine to the nucleus accumbens uptake and amphetamine-induced response. Viral restoration of dopamine to the nucleus accumbens is sufficient to induce a locomotor response to amphetamine by Heusner CL, Hnasko TS, Szczypka MS, Liu Y, During MJ, Palmiter RD. Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA Brain Res. 2003 Aug 8;980(2):266-74ABSTRACT Administration of amphetamine to mice evokes hyperlocomotion.

Dopamine deficient (DD) mice, in which tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) has been specifically inactivated in dopaminergic neurons, have a blunted response to amphetamine, indicating that the hyperlocomotive response requires dopamine. Dopamine production can be restored to specific brain regions by using adeno-associated viruses expressing TH and GTP cyclohydrolase 1 (GTPCH1). Restoration of dopamine specifically to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) of DD mice completely restores the ability of these mice to respond to amphetamine. Mental. Brain Wave Entrainment and Hypnosis. During hypnosis the brain shows a characteristic sequence of brain wave activity. This can now be artificially reproduced through the use of audio tones; a process known as brain wave entrainment. If you are in a particular state, for example, very anxious, then you will produce a unique 'signature' of brainwaves. This applies equally to other states, such as learning and the focused concentration of competitive sport.

These are states that can take a long time and a lot of physical effort to attain. It is an appealing idea that all that hard work and application could be bypassed and the perfect mental state produced through rapid artificial means. This page is going to show you how this is done. Firstly, we are going to review the different and the states that are generally associated with them.

Secondly, we will look at that have been observed in people while undergoing hypnosis. Fourthly we will look at brain wave entrainment specifically with regard to . Types of Brain Waves ~200Hz 40Hz. Holophonic Sounds - Tricking Your Mind To See Alternate Realities.

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