by Seth Oberst | Nov 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by Seth Oberst | Nov 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by Seth Oberst | Oct 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
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 –...
by Seth Oberst | Aug 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by Seth Oberst | Aug 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by Seth Oberst | Aug 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
