At the intersection of neuroscience and holistic wellbeing lies an interesting new trend: NeuroWellness. Our fast-paced world and digitally consumed minds are bearing the burden of that pesky modern dilemma we call overstimulation. This has led to the evolution of mental health in more ways than our ancestors could have ever imagined. Let’s take a look, shall we?
What is NeuroWellness?
NueroWellness is a new path to take if you want to reach optimal mental wellbeing. It focuses on improving brain activity, emotional regulation and cognitive performance using insights from neurological findings. By mixing traditional mental health practices such as mindfulness, holistic eating, sleep quality, and exercise, with advanced tools such as neurofeedback, brain stimulation, and digital therapeutics, neurowellness was created to improve overall mental health.
Ultimately, the goal is to improve one’s stress response, enhance mental clarity, and build long-term emotional resilience by working with the brain’s inherited rhythms and plasticity. In essence, neurowellness practices are proactive ways you can gain control of your mental state
The Neuro Wellness Spa
The NeuroWellness Spa is reinventing the wheel when it comes to mental healthcare. With their cutting-edge technology and expert patient care, this spa will truly blow your mind (in the best way imaginable). If you find yourself in the South Bay of California, there are three locations you can visit to fine-tune your neuro-wellbeing.
What makes The NeuroWellness Spas so groundbreaking is that they have expertly trained psychiatrists at each location who also happen to be available online if you need additional support. These psychiatrists are all in network and offer compassionate care and medication management, and if medication is not working for you or is causing adverse side effects, check this out. The NeuroWellness Spa provides Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and IV Ketamine as innovative treatment alternatives.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a drug-free, non-invasive treatment that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate specific the brain. This treatment is FDA indicated for major depression, OCD, and cigarette cessation. According to the spa, most patients who have not tolerated or have not responded to antidepressant medications will receive insurance coverage for TMS. You know what the great thing is?
This treatment has no recorded side effects, unlike medication, which comes with an entire list of them! IV Ketamine Therapy is a fast-acting treatment for depression, suicidality, and chronic pain. It has also been shown to be effective for anxiety, bipolar depression, and PTSD.
It’s a 40-minute session where patients are in a calm, quiet, safe environment. To promote personal treatments, the Neurowellness Spa offers five custom IV nutrition formulas, specifically designed for total relaxation, stress relief, general wellness, mood enhancement, and immune support.
NeuroWellness at Home
Despite the technological aspect of neurowellness, you can ensure your neurologically healthy in the following ways:
- Don’t go back to sleep after you’ve awoken. It messes with your circadian rhythm and could lead to sleep inertia. This obviously does not apply when you wake up in the middle of the night, but if it’s 2 hours before your alarm sounds, why not go for a walk instead of forcing yourself back to sleep again
- Expose yourself to some morning sunlight within 30 minutes of waking. Natural light helps regulate your body’s internal clock, boosts serotonin, and can improve focus and mood during the day.
- Brain-boosting meals are what you need if you’re feeling down. Foods high in omega-3s, antioxidants, and B-vitamins (blueberries, walnuts, eggs, leafy greens) are essential for brain health. Also, try to eat a protein, savoury breakfast to increase energy and focus.
If you want to know about more mental techniques you could try, be sure to read about EFT tapping for anxiety, and what’s it all about.
NeuroWellness Starts With You
Although NeuroWellness is not as widely known as it should be yet, living a mentally sound life starts with the small things you do every day. If you are mentally unwell – because let’s face it, life’s hard – then NeuroWellness therapies and techniques could help tremendously. There’s nothing to lose and everything to gain. But it always starts with the first step.
