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Thursday, November 1, 2018
The Role of the Vagus Nerve in the Mind-Body Connection
Transformational life coach Peter Winslow possesses more than 15 years of experience in helping people make radical life changes. Since launching his Scottsdale, Arizona-based life-coaching company, GoldMind, LLC, Peter Winslow has raised awareness of the mind-body connection and its impact on healing, pain management, and emotional well-being.
The vagus nerve, a cranial nerve that runs from the base of the brain to the digestive system, is a crucial part of the mind-body connection. The nerve is involved in processing tactile sensations and managing muscle movements and heart rate.
Taking deep breaths causes the vagus nerve to release the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is vital for the body’s relaxation response. However, if the myelin sheath that wraps around the vagus nerve is weakened, it can slow signals between the brain and the rest of the body.
This weakening of the myelin sheath can be a result of several factors, including diet and sleep quality. A weak or impaired vagus nerve has been linked to depression and low stress tolerance. Eating a balanced diet and practicing deep breathing are thought by some experts to strengthen the vagus nerve.
Friday, October 26, 2018
Differences Between Qi Gong and Tai Chi
An accomplished author and life coach in Scottsdale, Arizona, Peter Winslow stands out as the author of four books about health and personal development. In his personal life, life coach Peter Winslow maintains his own sense of wellness by practicing tai chi and qi gong.
Two of the most popular spiritual and physical practices to emerge from ancient China, both tai chi and qi gong focus on manipulating “qi,” which is the Chinese term for the essential life energy that flows through all living things. Though historians debate the precise origins of the disciplines, most scholars agree that qi gong is the older of the two practices, dating back to the 8th century BC.
Though the two practices are similar in origin and intent, tai chi and qi gong have several differences. Perhaps the biggest of these differences lies in the complexity of motion. While tai chi involves a series of fairly complex movements, qi gong focuses on simplicity and precision. Additionally, tai chi’s movements are more akin to those found in combative martial arts.
Furthermore, tai chi’s complex motions are given form through choreography and specific progressions, which again suggests the practice’s more martial in nature. Qi gong, on the other hand, is less prescriptive, with practitioners focusing more on the meditative aspects of the movements than a specific progression or structure.
Two of the most popular spiritual and physical practices to emerge from ancient China, both tai chi and qi gong focus on manipulating “qi,” which is the Chinese term for the essential life energy that flows through all living things. Though historians debate the precise origins of the disciplines, most scholars agree that qi gong is the older of the two practices, dating back to the 8th century BC.
Though the two practices are similar in origin and intent, tai chi and qi gong have several differences. Perhaps the biggest of these differences lies in the complexity of motion. While tai chi involves a series of fairly complex movements, qi gong focuses on simplicity and precision. Additionally, tai chi’s movements are more akin to those found in combative martial arts.
Furthermore, tai chi’s complex motions are given form through choreography and specific progressions, which again suggests the practice’s more martial in nature. Qi gong, on the other hand, is less prescriptive, with practitioners focusing more on the meditative aspects of the movements than a specific progression or structure.
Thursday, March 15, 2018
How the Body Heals Itself Section 5
I’m Peter Winslow, a life coach in general practice. In
our last post we discussed stress as a leading indicator for the mind-body
connection. Now, let’s use this awareness to better utilize optimal healing.
Your body is predesigned to heal itself from illness and
dis-ease. It contains a complex healing system whose purpose is to keep you in
constant balance. This healing system continually guides you toward optimal
function, proper repair and rejuvenation, no matter the circumstances in your
body.
For example, when you slice your finger, you can observe
as the wound heals itself without you having to think about it. It’s a routine
process for the healing system in the body. The incredible healing system is
always on the job, working tirelessly to mend your body regardless of whether
or not you know how it works, or undergo medical treatment.
A basic survival tool, the mechanism we think of as
“healing” is found in every life form on Earth, including plants and animals. By
understanding the healing system from a different perspective, you can grasp a
more complete image of what true and total healing really is. How?
Suspend ignorance and disbelief, expand your curiosity and
think of the healing system within your body as a type of higher consciousness.
It’s an inner awareness that operates on its own, constantly watching over you
and seeking to fulfill its function for better health and wellbeing.
This healing “inner awareness” is the spirit that commands
an incredibly complicated interaction of the physical and subtle energy systems
in your body that maintain delicate relationships with each other and must work
together for the greater good of the organism—you.
Now let’s get some real mileage out of this. Your role in
directing the mind-body connection for greater healing results is simply to
decide what outcome you choose to experience. Then commit to believing and
behaving in your chosen outcome, and watch with confidence as the inner
awareness of the body follows the mind to positive results.
Consider this quote from Norman Cousins, the celebrated
newspaper columnist who completely healed himself from a medically incurable
condition called Ankylosing Spondylitis: “The personal belief system is often
the activator for the healing system.”
You better believe it.
–Peter Winslow
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
A Powerful Secret 2
I’m life coach and success catalyst Peter Winslow. In theprevious post I shared a powerful secret that can lead you to achieve your
goals much more quickly and effortlessly. The secret: align your goals with
your intentions.
Here are three coaching tips on how to do so:
1. Does your goal feel right to you? If it feels like
something you SHOULD want rather than what in your heart of hearts you really
do want, it's the wrong goal for you.
For example, I've coached many clients who wanted to leave
the corporate arena because it no longer felt right for them. That's because
their values and intentions were no longer aligned with their corporate goals
and what it would take to achieve them.
2. Make your goal less about acquiring possessions and
more about helping others. It is not necessarily wrong or greedy to be driven
by personal gain. If one of your intentions is to be wealthy, you will find
your goals for prosperity perfectly aligned with your intentions.
For many, money or wealth is not a strong motivator, which
simply means their intentions do not reflect money as a goal. However,
there are many ways to create prosperity, and the best ways happen when you
focus on increasing your service to others rather than fixating on how much
money you collect from them.
3. Success-oriented
people use intention to create the lives they desire, and so can you. How?
Learn to create the authentic feeling of already having what you want, and then
prefer more of what you already have. Start small and watch what happens over
time.
With the alignment of your goals and intentions, you have
a powerful formula for creating the life you desire—and you are well on your
way to living it.
–Peter Winslow
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Luck of the Draw?
Hello I’m Peter Winslow, a life coach in private practice.
In my practice as a life coach I often encounter people eager to maintain that
“luck” is the most powerful indicator for personal outcomes regarding an
individual’s health and wellness.
It’s all due, they say, to the environment into which
we’re born into. It’s the luck of winning or losing the genetic lottery; the
fortune of whom we meet and who comes into our lives on a personal level; the
grace of which tax bracket we fall into; on and on it goes.
Still others will tell me there's no such thing as
luck—yet they’ll agree it sure feels like an apt descriptor of the conditions
and situations they find themselves in.
As for outcomes, it is readily apparent that people look
to the future from the perspective of their previous experiences and current
circumstances. When being unhappy, the future is dim and `challenging; when
joyous and elated, triumph is all but carved in stone.
The difference is found in our own personal biases which
determine how we feel about whatever actually occurs. Knowing this, it becomes
obvious that we tend to attract what we expect and therefore focus on. The
upshot here? The days to come will be great for those who create greatness
within themselves.
As such, nothing happens to you, until it happens through
you. You are the filter through which your current experiences pass from
perception into reality. The wise have often written that we always stand at a
fork in the road; we choose our path and can only experience the result of that
choice.
Which path will you choose?
–Peter Winslow
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