Mind Mending with LENS

02/03/2026

Chillin’ with my boy. 😍

10/04/2023

I’ve been watching this guy collect acorns and look for stuff in the bark. I swear he knows the second I try to get a photo. This is off the computer. Very flashy and active.

09/21/2022

Would like to plan a trip here next year. Preferably a week.

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09/27/2020

This is why all of our brain needs to work well for us to function optimally. Anxiety, head injuries, chronic anger and PTSD to name a few impairs our ability to be our best selves.

03/18/2020

Well, taking time for joy. The young fellow I am treating in a coma waved his fingers yes when his mom asked him if he could see her. She was told he would never see again. He is opening his eyes more and more and is now moving all 4 extremities. We are thrilled!

12/08/2019

Five groups unite to form the American Nutrition Association
Five major nutrition organizations just united to form the American Nutrition Association. The groups who have joined together are: the American College of Nutrition; the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists; the Center for Nutrition Advocacy; the Accreditation Council for Nutrition Professional Education; and the American Nutrition Association Foundation. Poor nutrition, the ANA said in a statement, poses a greater risk to health than to***co, inactivity, or any other risk factor, a claim echoed by a global study earlier this year. Nearly half of Americans have some form of chronic illness, according to the ANA, and better personal nutrition could help address the “nutrition gap” in the U.S. The group aims to ensure that improving nutrition includes not only health care providers, but also farmers, policymakers, and philanthropists.

09/07/2019

The problem with pot is that it increases alpha brainwaves. Fred Struve, who is at Yale, did 3 studies comparing those who had never smoked pot with those who had smoked daily for 5 years, 10 years ad 15 years. It showed a progressive slowing and deterioration of the brain so that by the end of 15 years they were looking like someone entering the early stages of Alzheimer’s.

09/04/2019

Pretty profound.

One of the most powerful things we can do is to simply pause before reacting.

07/20/2019

Low Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS) treats all of the symptoms associated with Acquired Brain Injuries:

Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). ABI encompasses both traumatic and nontraumatic mechanisms of brain injury. A working definition is as follows: "Acquired Brain Injury refers to damage to the brain from an internal or external source, that occurs
post-birth and is non-congenital, non-degenerative, and non- hereditary, resulting in partial or total functional impairment in one or more areas such as attention, memory, reasoning, problem solving, speed of processing, decision making, learning, perception, sensory impairment, speech and language, motor and physical functioning, or psychological behavior."

06/25/2019

A garden is so much like a church. So much care and feeding. Such competitiveness among the plants — some of them literally choke each other to death if you don’t get out there and put a stop to it. The big gorgeous ones get lots of attention, but then one comes along that looks almost dead all season and suddenly, almost overnight, blooms splendidly forth. Never write anybody off completely. You just don’t know.

Barbara Cawthorne Crafton

06/01/2019

The view from my swing by the office door. 😄