BELIEVE TO RECEIVE – A TORAH & NEUROSCIENCE FRAMEWORK
“Believe to Receive” is not about treating the universe like a personal ATM, dispensing goodies at the push of thought-buttons. Nor is it about twisting or manipulating reality to serve our [...]
When Psychedelics Reopen Wounds: Trauma, Memory, and the Limits of Set and Setting
A recent preprint study from less than 2 weeks ago (Simon et al., 2025) shook something in me. As a trauma-informed clinician, I’m well aware of both the promise and perils of psychedelic [...]
THERMONEUTRAL MINDS: How Comfort Culture Is Making Us Fragile—And What Torah, Neuroscience, And Botany Teach About Resilience
Thermo-neutrality is the narrow temperature band—about 70 – 75 °F (21 – 24 °C)—within which the human body cruises without shivering or sweating. Our homes, offices, cars, even gyms now hold us [...]
SHRINK THE STEP, EXPAND THE SELF – Baby Tweaks for Big Brain Shifts
Stuck Isn’t Shameful — It’s a Signal. That frozen wave of “so much to do” is not laziness or lack of willpower. It is the brain’s threat-detection network declaring, This feels too big, too [...]
THE DESCENT THAT ELEVATES How Struggle, Stillness, & Subtle Effort Become Spiritual Growth
Sometimes life hits hard. A challenge appears, a relationship shifts, a quiet ache settles in. These moments, though painful, often carry an invisible invitation: to grow, to stretch, to wake up. [...]
YOUR DIVINE ALGORITHM Your Focus is Your Feed
What Are You Training Your Life to Show You? We live in a world of algorithms. Whether you're on YouTube, Instagram, or Google, what you see is shaped by what you search for, click on, and spend [...]
Can You Teach An Old Person New Tricks?
As we continue discussing the practice of meditation, in this blog I’d like to discuss the very important neuroscience principle of ‘neuroplasticity.’ There was a famous neuroscientist by the [...]
