While caring for a loved one its common for unresolved issues from your shared past to surface and trigger your emotions. This can cause an overreaction to the situation at hand. Everyone has a story; actually, thousands of them have accumulated over one’s lifetime. The majority of these past stories are forgotten but yet they subconsciously continue to exist. Our ability to consciously recall a story is

One of the most challenging parts of life can be to learn to love oneself. Why is it easier to feel love for another person than it is for myself? This last month I’ve been faced with some difficult challenges, and I’ve been forced to do a lot of soul searching. Having to attend to some health issues that seem to be like a revolving door swung

When dealing with health issues, I find myself having to face my internal demons who have skillfully hidden in the recesses of my subconscious. They lurk in the shadows of my consciousness until my fears over my physical condition feed them, making them strong enough to surface. As we age, most people experience some health decline. But at 72, I’m amazed and frightened at how steep that

Family caregivers of those with dementia commonly say, “Mom has changed, I don’t recognize her anymore, this isn’t the man I married or Dad was such a quiet, sweet person, and now he’s angry all the time.” “I feel like I’m living with a stranger.” Personality changes are one of the most common dementia symptoms and usually the most significant cause of families emotionally distancing themselves from

Our brain is a very complicated piece of physical machinery, but is it the source of our consciousness? Yes, we think, reason, and analyze, but is this all there is to consciousness. Science states we consciously use less than 5% of our brain; the other subconscious 95% controls automatic bodily functions, emotional programming and processing of our perceptions, and more that’s still not understand. Our subconscious is

Everyone has intuitive abilities; some people are more skilled than others. Intuition is an instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning; it is an inner knowing. It’s not a thought until we begin to question it and consider other possibilities. Often following our counterintuitive decisions, we end up saying to ourselves, “I knew I should have listened to my gut!” As dementia progresses, the individual experiences the inability

Yesterday on a rainy afternoon, I shared a collective taxi with a man, and the conversation we had strengthened my belief there are no coincidences, just coinciding incidences. I have continuously encountered this phenomenon throughout these months of developing the Infinite Mind Dementia project here in Costa Rica. Kenneth is a Costa Rican living in the small mountain town of Puriscal. Turns out he was on his