Read moreTo summarize, here are the action steps to start practicing every day:
1. Notice the emotions you experience and give them a name.
2. Practice being aware of what your body is doing throughout the day in various activities.
3. Spend 10 minutes every day in silence with your eyes closed focusing on your breathing.
Read moreKeep in mind that up until 1943, marijuana was part of the United States drug pharmacopeia. One of the conditions for which it was prescribed was neuropathic pain. It is a miserable pain that’s tough to treat. My own patients have described it as “lancinating, burning and a barrage of pins and needles.”
Read moreThe hardware necessary to simulate the activity of 1.73 billion nerve cells connected by 10.4 trillion synapses (just 1 percent of a brain’s total neural network) for 1 biological second: 82,944 processors on the K supercomputer and 1 petabyte of memory (24MB per synapse).
