Reading Time: 3 minutes Welcome to the latest edition of Unlocking Your Greatness with Wendy Bjork. As an international bestselling author, inspirational speaker and guide to others, as well as founder of heartsofwellness.com, my mission is empowering others to find peace, joy and fulfillment by embracing simplicity. Is It Time to Bring Back Kindness? Any season is a good time to recharge our batteries, and also a great opportunity to practice kindness. Whether it’s picking up trash in the neighborhood, writing a note to someone you appreciate or buying your coffee barista…
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Directing Awareness, Shaping Neurology: Exploring the Potential Role of Consciousness and Quantum Effects in Neuroplastic Pain Relief
Reading Time: 2 minutes We know the brain rewires neural pathways based on repetitive experiences and behaviours. As some theories suggest, if consciousness plays an active role in collapsing quantum potentials, directing awareness could physically reshape neurocircuitry. For instance, through practises like mindfulness, visualisation, and affirmations, patients can break latent mental associations that sustain the pain and form new empowering configurations. Meditation could calm overactive threat detection signals and build pain regulation circuits. Approaching pain with acceptance rather than aversion may lessen fight-or-flight responses and decrease sensitisation. Reframing self-talk could retrain habitual thought patterns…
Read MoreVisualisation and the Observer Effect
Reading Time: 2 minutes The observer effect is a concept from quantum physics that states that observing a phenomenon can influence or change that phenomenon. This has profound implications in quantum coaching. Visualisation is a key technique in coaching that can harness the observer effect for positive outcomes. By visualising a desired future state, the coach helps the client move towards that tangible future through the power of observation. Visualisation activates the brain’s reticular activating system (RAS), allowing us to see possibilities and opportunities that align with our visualised goals. The brain starts noticing…
Read MoreWhich Brain Guides Your Decisions?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. From Confucius 2,500 BC Welcome to the weekly edition of Unlocking Your Greatness with Wendy Bjork. As an international bestselling author, speaker and guide to others, as well as founder of heartsofwellness.com, it is my mission to help others understand where we’ve been in order to make progress forward and live our best lives! Are you a clear decision maker? As a choice between alternative courses of action (including inaction), it’s one of the core functional values that…
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