So how can we bring coherence in lifestyle, disease prevention and holistic health through modern+ancient wisdom rather than just fixing one part at a time?
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Modern science shows systems/parts and ancient wisdom shows balance across awareness-mind-body-energy.

Both point wellness is coherence of physical, mental, environmental, spiritual, social.

On April 15th, United Nations General Assembly launched International Wellness Day initiated by Nepal and some thoughts on this great initiative.

Health isn’t just absence of disease, healing isn’t just fixing dysfunction, longevity isn’t just adding years.

Aren’t scientists naturally philosophers first?

Science often begins with wonder and questions about life, mind, matter, and meaning. But somewhere along the way, curiosity gets replaced by a race for publications, funding, titles, and survival.

How can we stay connected to that same wonder?

Super-excited to have @skhalsa.bsky.social from UCLA for our brain-body seminar series on April 28th! Join us in the link below 👇

Why is understanding who we are through yoga, contemplation, awareness, meditation practices dismissed as philosophy, spirituality, subjectivity, or pseudoscience when science depends on the one who asks the questions? These practices allow to move from fragmentation to wholeness! 🙏✨

Such an incredible night filled with personal, emotional, and deeply moving stories of science and beyond. Grateful to everyone who came, supported and shared, and to @sinaibrain.bsky.social for supporting this event!

Tonight won't be just any night! JOIN @brainbodylab.bsky.social and Pamela Toh as they host 6 #StoryTellers who share personal accounts of the challenges they've overcome & triumphs they've experienced in their journey through the brain and beyond! GET YOUR🎟️NOW! checkout.square.site/merchant/MJN...

Join us tomorrow evening if you are in NY or visiting for an amazing night of stories of science and more!

Thoughts lately 💭: Who experiences the pain signals in organoids? Is experience separate from experiencer? Who is the experiencer? 🤔

IN 2 DAYS! On Wednesday, JOIN the #FriedmanBrainInstitute's @brainbodylab.bsky.social & Pamela Toh as they host 6 #StoryTellers who share personal accounts of challenges they've overcome & triumphs they've experienced in their journey thru the brain…and beyond!🎟️ checkout.square.site/merchant/MJN...

#NeuroStories! On 3/25, JOIN The #FriedmanBrainInstitute 's
@brainbodylab.bsky.social & Pamela Toh as they host 6 #StoryTellers who share personal accounts of challenges they've overcome & triumphs they've experienced in their journey thru the brain...& beyond!🎟️ checkout.square.site/merchant/MJN...

Another amazing Brain Awareness Week by @sinaibrain.bsky.social, with our lab members representing the Brain–Body Research Institute and the CEYE program. It is always inspiring to engage with students and the broader community, especially during these difficult times!

#NeuroStories! On 3/25, JOIN The #FriedmanBrainInstitute's @brainbodylab.bsky.social & Pamela Toh as they host 6 #StoryTellers who share personal accounts of challenges they've overcome & triumphs they've experienced in their journey thru the brain… and beyond!🎟️ checkout.square.site/merchant/MJN...

Duality is part of life!
For every bad person, there is a good person; for every evil, there is goodness.

The question is where we place our non-dualistic awareness? In outrage, numbness, despair or in actions grounded in truth, non-harm, conscience and humanity itself? 🙏

Unchecked desire for power, status, money, control on full display as endless pit, a hedonic treadmill.
Chasing, never arriving!

Fulfilled desire=greed; Unfulfilled= anger/resentment.

Yoga wisdom: desires are transient ripples in awareness and redirecting toward deeper Self-knowledge instead!

How much are our hearts craving peace in this time/moment?

The monks walking for peace are following Buddha’s path (≠ religion). When humanity seems to be lost, this is quite a contrast reminder of peace, clarity, compassion, non-harm within ourselves and others as a choice! 🙏

A contemplation: If medicine is described as science and practice of health, then aren’t wellness practices also medicine for health? Or is it just 💊. 🤔

Just as stress affects the whole brain+body, nutrition, exercise, connection (self and others) and rest (sleep and meditation) affects the whole brain and body even under dis-ease! #holistichealth #brainbody

#Healing

Such a pleasure meeting Dr. Kevin Tracey, hearing his talk, and discussing the #vagusnerve. Grateful he signed The Great Nerve in my office with Vesalius’ vagus illustration behind us! The vagus is central to our lab’s work, and my yoga teaching on parasympathetic regulation. 🙏

Beautiful memories made with the amazing @sofiyahupalo.bsky.social 🙏✨

Always so lovely and nostalgic in a good way to see and spend time with you Sofiya. Thank you for inviting me 🤗

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Beautiful time spent with two of my favorite humans and scientists @msahsorin.bsky.social and @martinpicardenergy.bsky.social! Thanks to @acnporg.bsky.social #energy ✨

SPECIAL SEMINAR | PRESENTED FOR THE @mountsinainyc.bsky.social COMMUNITY | Co-sponsored by the #BrainBodyResearchInstitute, BMEII Sinai & @mountsinaicvri.bsky.social, @scottrussophd.bsky.social, Filip Swirski & Zahi Fayad are EXCITED to host @northwellhealth.bsky.social's Dr. Kevin J. Tracey!

@acnporg.bsky.social brain–body interactions plenary chaired by Bill Carlezon was powerful, highlighting bidirectional+holistic biology by KarlDeisseroth, Elaine Hsiao, Michael Irwin and @martinpicardenergy.bsky.social. So much to unravel, but grateful to be doing this line of work! 🙏✨

With so much suffering, pain, and sadness arising, are we practicing our innate capacity for love+compassion, than indifference/division?

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”-Rumi

How Consciousness Works: From Sleep to Self-Awareness Human consciousness intertwines awareness and self-recognition, diverging in meaning among neuroscientists and philosophers. It encompasses states like wakefulness, sleep, and alertness, influenced by physiological processes. The exploration of consciousness includes understanding sleep's restorative functions and self-awareness's role in interactions, highlighting the balance between scientific and moral aspects of human experience.

Human consciousness intertwines awareness and self-recognition, diverging in meaning among neuroscientists and philosophers. It encompasses states like wakefulness, sleep, and alertness, influenced by physiological processes.