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Wise Brain Bulletin • Volume 20.1
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Hello friend,
Volume 20.1 marks the beginning of our 20th year of bringing you the Wise Brain Bulletin—a milestone made possible by readers like you. To our longtime readers, thank you for walking this path alongside us. And if you're just joining us, welcome to a community that's been exploring the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, and contemplative practice since 2006!
Our February issue explores the body's wisdom as a pathway to healing and wholeness—inviting us to listen more deeply to what our bodies teach us about connection, regulation, and transformation.
Wishing you well,
Michelle Keane
Editor
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If the Wise Brain Bulletin supports you in your practice, please consider a tax-deductible donation to the Wellspring Institute.
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Our nervous system isn’t just a stress-response mechanism. It’s a gateway. The bridge between our biology and our soul–between science and meaning, between regulation and awakening. And when we begin to understand this, everything changes: how we parent, how we relate, how we meet our own pain.
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We are generally taught to separate heart and mind: head for thinking, heart for feeling. But science keeps challenging this idea, revealing that these two organs are far more connected than we think.
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The wisdom that comes with aging gently invites us to slow down and treasure life's precious, fleeting moments.
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by Mandar Apte
Every mindful breath we take — every moment we choose awareness over reactivity — becomes an act of quiet revolution.
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Diaphragmatic breathing not only optimizes the breathing process, improving oxygen delivery to the organs, but it relaxes the whole body, helping to relieve stress or anxiety and to increase energy.
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The Wise Brain Bulletin brings you skillful means – from psychology, neurology, and contemplative practice – for personal well-being, relationships, work, and spiritual development. If someone forwarded you this newsletter, you can subscribe here.
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The Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom is a 501c3 non-profit corporation, and it publishes the Wise Brain Bulletin. The Institute gathers, organizes, and freely offers information and methods— supported by brain science and the contemplative disciplines—for greater happiness, love, effectiveness, and wisdom.
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