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How are we aware of the space between what we want or need to do and what we think we are able to do? It's a feeling, isn't it? An underlying sense of tension, resistance, and insecurity if the space is wide enough. It seems that when there's a discord between our...

It's been awhile since I've put a Recommended Readings post together and, while I have been sharing them on Twitter, I thought it was time to put one up on the site. This post includes books on the neuroscience of trauma, learning and habits, consciousness and...

Humans are social creatures with our capacity for language giving us dominion, as we perceive it, over other species. Given our inclination for spoken and written communication, we humans love to label things. So it's no surprise that the medical model often goes...

This guest post is written by Leda McDaniel, who wrote a fantastic article for SethOberst.com back in 2014 entitled An Athlete's Open Letter on Pain and Recovery. So I was thrilled to have her approach me to write a follow-up in which she outlines two steps we can...

SethOberst.com saw considerable growth in 2015 despite the entire country of Paraguay's insistence on not reading my articles. To put a bow on this year's content, here's a quick summary of the goings-ons. ​Here are the Top Articles based on traffic in 2015. The...

Do we ever really know reality? Or do we only experience the world thru our own perception of reality? Modern neuroscience indicates quite clearly (read Subliminal) that our subconscious interpretation of sensory input is largely viewed thru a predictive lens informed...

Improving, removing, or otherwise altering patterns is what we do as therapists and coaches. But it's quite challenging to truly change how someone moves and behaves because changing a pattern is a systemic process. If you change one pattern all the neural systems...

Once upon a time, I wrote a piece called Neuroception and the Hierarchy of Needs. In it I discussed how the brain determines threats from the environment, altering the way the world is perceived and directly influencing the nervous system. A hypervigilance to threat...

Our habits define us more than our anatomy. Form follows function. Moshe Feldenkrais wrote in Body & Mature Behavior that anatomical peculiarities only partially explain our behavior. It is our repeated output patterns - movements, thoughts, emotions - that become...

Our ability to appropriately integrate stimuli from the environment is crucial to our self-perception and neurological wiring — ultimately altering our capacity for optimal function and performance. This month's additions to the Recommended Readings List focus on two...

Dr. Dave Tilley, DPT and I spoke recently as part of a webcast series on his excellent website HybridPerspective.com. The talk is broken up into two chunks secondary to technical difficulties as I think our highlighter yellow shirts broke the internet for a minute.In...

In case you haven't been following this blog (looking at you, people of Mongolia), the last few posts have centered on the appraisal of threat by the limbic system of the brain, the resting tone of the nervous system based upon said threat, and how consistency and...

This post marks the 2-Year Anniversary of SethOberst.com and we've seen continued and considerable growth over the past year. In light of this, I wanted to reflect on where we've been and where it's going.Over the past year, we have: Been viewed in 133 countries...

In a post not so long ago in a galaxy very near here, we discussed neuroception and the hierarchy of needs. In it, I described how the nervous system's subconscious evaluation of threat determines one's ability to engage with, or disengage from, the environment. This...

As I did back in April, once I reach a critical mass I will post the most salient points from books I've found highly engaging. This month's additions to the reading list are focused on three of my most favorite of topics: stress, neuroplasticity, and the mind.Why...