Where Brain Scientists and Psychedelic Trippers Come Together
Actually, they have more in common than you’d think. Mostly, their goals are similar: They want to calm the mind and help you achieve focus.
Actually, they have more in common than you’d think. Mostly, their goals are similar: They want to calm the mind and help you achieve focus.
Actually, they have more in common than you’d think. Mostly, their goals are similar: They want to calm the mind and help you achieve focus.
Around 2,700 B.C.E., King Shen Nong of China made a mistake.
They say it’s just a legend, but if it’s true…
King Shen Nong changed the world forever with an oopsie.
He made tea.
And it only took the Chinese another 700 years to figure out that tea had healing properties and could be applied to herbal medicine. (A much shorter time than it took the rest of us.)
Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, old nuance circles back around to show us our initial analysis didn’t quite hit the
The trauma stuck in your brain and your autonomic nervous system (ANS) patterns is the problem – not an inherent character weakness or an incorrect attitude.
Taking care of yourself in a world that hopes you won’t is radical. Right?
But it doesn’t always look the way we think it will… It doesn’t always look like self-soothing. It doesn’t always look like saying “yes” to our momentary flashes of whims that we believe will stave off discomfort. It doesn’t always look like abdicating our responsibilities when we don’t believe there’s any more gas in the tank.
It’s considered the hallmark of adulthood: “I’m so tired.”
Nap culture, staying-in-on-a-Friday culture, bragging-about-how-little-sleep-you-got culture is rampant in 2019. But have you ever thought about how your REM cycle affects your gut culture?
Science is beginning to wake up to the relationship between your gut microbiome and the quality and quantity of sleep you’re getting. If there is a gut-brain axis, and your gut health can affect anything from your ADHD condition to the eczema on your skin, why shouldn’t sleep factor into your overall digestive health?