Posts Tagged ‘COVID-19 pandemic’
P.S. October 11, 2020
THE Dr. Michael Moskowitz (Chapter 1 in Dr. Norman Doidge’s book THE BRAIN’S WAY OF HEALING) has cowritten a most engaging workbook with Dr. Marla Golden – TRANSFORMING THE BRAIN IN PAIN.
Thank you, Dr. Moskowitz and Dr. Golden !!
Neuroplastic Transformation Workbook
YOUR BRAIN ON PAIN
by Michael H. Moskowitz, MD and Marla D. Golden, DO
https://shop.neuroplastix.com/Neuroplastic-Transformation-Workbook-92-W8PZ-LIIY.htm
Visit http://www.neuroplastix.com/ for Dr. Moskowitz’s and Dr. Golden’s webinars
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P.P.S. October 12, 2020
During Q&A in Webinar Part One, Dr. Moskowitz praises how Professor Lorimer Moseley uses humor in his presentations and says to find his talks on YouTube.
“Pain, the brain and your amazing protectometer – Lorimer Moseley” https://youtu.be/lCF1_Fs00nM
”Professor Lorimer Mosely, ‘The Pain Revolution’, April 2017″ https://youtu.be/oji2mfcjisk
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October 14, 2020
Mr John Pepper IS Chapter 2 of Dr. Norman Doidge’s second book THE BRAIN’S WAY OF HEALING…
Chapter 2: “A Man Walks Off His Parkinsonian Symptoms – How Exercise Helps Fend Off Degenerative Disorders and Can Defer Dementia”
3 short interviews on YouTube
“John Pepper’s Parkinson’s Disease Journey” July 2016 https://youtu.be/_QVIdPo71gI
“Training Conscious Walking – John Pepper” July 2017 https://youtu.be/PQ1CT9Om6kE
“Interview with John Pepper May 28, 2020″ https://youtu.be/YwO0Pgp6mrA
Mr Pepper’s site: https://www.reverseparkinsons.net/
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03:33 – 07:00 California 2020 August 22
The best time to read books about improving one’s health, recovering from illness, how our beautiful brain works IS when one is not battling illness.
Five years ago, I read Dr. Norman Doidge’s books to help people I love; they were battling illness and disease, they didn’t have the bandwidth to read or listen to audio books. Now, five years later, I am the one who doesn’t have energy to read … I am the person who is experiencing “brain continues sending pain messages even though my illness is running its course”. Please, Beautiful Brain, STOP already.
I am thankful that I did read years ago; I know what to do to help my brain stop overwhelming me with pain signals.
Knowledge that leads to health and wellness – this is my wish for everyone.
Dr. Doidge’s books are most engaging- I learned from the stories – I did NOT have to look up medical terms; the footnotes were equally engaging.
NOT having current information about how our brains work (to help every part of the body) would be like operating life with the belief that the world is flat.
NOT having current information about how our brains work is to give up on ourselves or people we care about and let other people’s attitude and behavior ( “there’s nothing more we can do about your condition” or “keep on taking these drugs and be warned about horrific side effects”) dictate the outcome of our well-being.
Dr. Doidge’s books make for fascinating reads – our brains and the phenomenon of neuroplasticity - thank you to all the patients who did not give up, their advocates and their physicians who did not give up, and the dedicated neuroscientists . . . for providing the stories.
Even if your physicians and healers have not read this book . . . YOU can arm yourselves with the information and ask them targeted questions and give you referrals. How can doctors know what you want when they juggle 20 patients in a day?
The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
is vailable in over 100 countries, and 19 languages including translations in Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazil, Finnish Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Traditional Characters, Chinese Simplified Characters, Turkish.
English Editions: North American Editions, (Viking Penguin U.S.A.) UK Edition, (Penguin U.K.) Australian & New Zealand Edition (Scribe) Kindle Edition, Amazon. Audio books by Brilliance Audio in North America, and Bolinda in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand
In my October 21, 2015 blog post “The Brain’s Way of Healing – Chapter Titles and Index in Book Spark Hope and Motivation to Ask Physicians the Right Questions” http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/the-brains-way-of-healing-chapter-titles-and-index-in-book-spark-hope-and-motivation-to-ask-physicians-the-right-questions/ I had written:
I understand now. . . that our brains can change themselves, and, our brains create “maps” for every body part; if I don’t use a body part/a movement, my brain operates on a “use it or lose it” basis.
The Brain’s Way of Healing by Norman Doidge, M.D.
Chapter 1 Physician Hurt, Then Heal Thyself
Michael Moskowitz Discovers That Chronic Pain Can Be Unlearned
Chapter 2 A Man Walks Off His Parkinsonian Symptoms
How Exercise Helps Fend Off Degenerative Disorders and Can Defer Dementia
Chapter 3 The Stages of Neuroplastic Healing
How and Why It Works
Chapter 4 Rewiring a Brain with Light
Using Light to Reawaken Dormant Neural Circuits
Chapter 5 Moshe Feldenkrais: Physicist, Black Belt, and Healer
Healing Serious Brain Problems Through Mental Awareness of Movement
Chapter 6 A Blind Man Learns to See
Using Feldenkrais, Buddhist, and Other Neuroplastic Methods
Chapter 7 A Device That Resets the Brain
Stimulating Neuromodulation to Reverse Symptoms
I. A Cane Against the Wall
II. Three Resets: Parkinson’s, Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis
III. The Cracked Potters
IV. How the Brain Balances Itself—with a Little Help
Chapter 8 A Bridge of Sound
The Special Connection Between Music and the Brain
I. A Dyslexic Boy Reverses His Misfortune
II. A Mother’s Voice
III. Rebuilding the Brain from the Bottom Up: Autism, Attention Deficits, and Sensory Processing Disorder
IV. Solving the Mystery at the Abbey: How Music Raises Our Spirits and Energy
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Another book that ought to be in every home is
Victoria Sweet, M.D.’s new book
SLOW MEDICINE The Way to Healing
https://www.victoriasweet.com/ Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency.
Victoria Sweet, M.D. is the award-winning author of God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine.
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Knowledge that leads to health and wellness – this is my wish for everyone.
For other posts in my blog, please go to: https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog If you look at right side of screen, you’ll see the category “Beautiful Brains Neuroplasticity”. Please click on that category to get all my blog posts pertaining to our our Beautiful Brains and Neuroplasticity.
Sincerely,
Theme Consultant / Author / Advocate
Teresa Jade LeYung
Love Made Of Heart ®
I wish you and everyone around you safety, kindness, excellent health, clear water, blue sky, delicious eats, and sweet laughter!
To help prevent spread of virus, I wear face-covering AND keep at least 6-foot-distance with people who don’t live with me.
No blaming No shaming; I protect myself and everyone else.
Teresa Jade LeYung speaks out and offers resources through her Blog: http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/
6 August 2020 California
Good day, everyone!
In Loduskia “Dusky” Pierce’s blog post entitled “Vacations, 2020″ she says:
“Since the whole world is restricted in movement right now with the Covid 19 pandemic, it seems like the perfect time to let our imagination and computer images take us away on a vacation. We’ll start with spectacular versions of more traditional vacations. Awesome nature, sometimes with housing we could only dream of getting through Airbnb. Or flying in a drone to get another perspective. Then we’ll move to oases…because why not? Online is definitely the easiest way to visit an oasis. Finally, if you are the type, you might enjoy picturing yourself accompanying some of the daring adventurers found in the last section …. ”
To see all the magnificent images in Dusky’s Wonder Site blog post, visit: http://www.duskyswondersite.com/human-ingenuity-category/vacations-2020/
To see all the magnificent images in Dusky’s blog post, visit: http://www.duskyswondersite.com/human-ingenuity-category/vacations-2020/
To see all the magnificent images in Dusky’s blog post, visit: http://www.duskyswondersite.com/human-ingenuity-category/vacations-2020/
Loduskia “Dusky” Pierce’s blog post “Vacations, 2020″ transports us to magical places, safe from COVID-19.
For me … instead of going on “vacation”, I went home to beloved City of Light via Dusky’s images.
Merci beaucoup Madame Pierce!
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For other blog posts from Dusky: http://www.duskyswondersite.com/
Dusky Pierce says:
“Mind/body approaches such as EMDR and Emotional Freedom Technique are scientifically proven methods that we might use to address trauma or deep emotional wounds.
” … therapy is not only about dealing with problems; it’s also about nurturing strengths. It’s obvious life can be challenging, even tragic. I understand that there are times when no ray of sunshine shines through the dark. In that case, we focus on coping with the problems at hand.
“I also know from my work as a therapist and in my own life that in the midst of the most difficult times, moments of respite, appreciation, love or laughter are often found.
“Thanks to an expanding body of research in how the brain works, we know it’s possible to intentionally cultivate such moments, increasing our inner resources and feelings of well-being. We can literally create new pathways in our brains that heighten our ability to notice instances of positive experience in the midst of the most trying times.”
http://www.duskyswondersite.com/about/
Dear Dusky,
You have helped me turn phobias into joys, grief into insight.
And, your having Dr. Norman Doidge’s book The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science in your waiting room which led me to finding his next book The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity – the stories and resources in both books helped me help my father, friends and myself.
I am forever grateful.
Sincerely,
Teresa Jade LeYung
Love Made Of Heart ®
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https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/prevention.html
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10 Things You Can Do to Manage COVID-19 at Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPoptbtBjkg
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10 Things You Can do to Manage COVID-19 at Home presented in American Sign Language ASL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zDpHJdwBvw
For other posts in my blog, please go to: https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog
If you’re looking for my blog posts pertaining to our Beautiful Brains and Neuroplasticity… https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog look at right side of screen, you’ll see the category “Beautiful Brains Neuroplasticity”. Please click on that category to get those posts.
NARRATIVE PATHS JOURNAL Guest Column:
Wake-Up America! Part I
June 15, 2020
by Kim McMillon Ph.D.

Kim McMillon, Ph.D.
https://www.narrativepathsjournal.com/guest-column-wake-up-america-part-i-by-kim-mcmillon/
1. Why do you believe the issue of racism is important?
2. Do you believe the individual can make a difference in a racist society?
3. Have you ever been confronted with racism and how did you handle it?
4. What do you tell your children about racism in the United States today?
5. Do you believe it is possible to understand racial oppression if you are not a person of color?
6. The title of the Poetathon is “Wake-Up America.” What do you see America needing to Wake-Up from?
Have you ever been confronted with racism and how did you handle it?
Author Teresa Jade LeYung says:
“I am a sixty-something-year-old female American naturalized citizen, of Chinese ancestry, who has been sleeping a lot since March 16, 2020 (hours before our county was to adhere to COVID-19 ‘Shelter-In-Place’ order) when I experienced racial harassment at the local supermarket. What happened? A fifty-something-year-old Caucasian man pushed his shopping cart into the right side of my body, and then walked away with his head held high. When I told friends, they gave support through resources… including www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/ to report the incident, and, www.ihollaback.org to sign-up for Bystander Intervention Training to STOP anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic Harassment. I kept sleeping. Until I followed through with both resources. Gaining knowledge and skills woke up my brain.
“I didn’t know that I had to stay awake. While heroes from all walks of life were helping communities cope with daily needs during this pandemic, others continued to commit racial injustices. Details of the murders of three Americans – Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd – woke up people from all parts of the world.
”Wake-Up America!” Part 1, by Kim McMillon, Ph.D.,
Guest Columnist for NARRATIVE PATHS JOURNAL GROUP( “NPJ”) – international literary journal
In Part II of Guest Column: Wake-Up America! by Kim McMillon, we shall answer:
7. How do you become an ally to those experiencing racial oppression?
8. The public has not protested the atrocities that have been taking place in our country, but yet during a pandemic, people are taking to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd, why?
9. How do you believe we can change the world for the better?
10. As a poet, how would you like to be remembered?
11. What line or stanza of poetry best describes you?
“Thank you, Dr. Kim McMillon, for giving us this forum to wake up in unity.”
Bio: Teresa Jade LeYung, American naturalized citizen of Chinese ancestry, is a manuscript-theme consultant, author of Love Made Of Heart (archived at the San Francisco History Center), Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days, and Talking To My Dead Mom monologues, and, an advocate for public libraries and public schools. http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/
Teresa Jade LeYung