mind-body connection

This Week's Highlights: It began with a gut feeling, the latest on the gut-brain connection and Parkinson's; Yale study challenges a long held assumption about Parkinson’s effect on neurotransmitters other than dopamine; Merck Discontinuing Sinemet CR; is PD causing your pain, or just contributing; taking control of your PD, encouraging people with PD to exercise; plus more news and insight ...

What if there’s a way to ensure Parkinson’s never has control over us again? Is this possible? The mind is often our biggest enemy. Alternatively, it can be trained to serve... The thing with Parkinson’s is the loss of control - the slow, constant erosion of execution of our will, and resulting deferral to Parkinson’s. We want to move easily. We can’t. We want to be pain-free. We’re not. We want to sleep well. We don’t. We want to connect with the people around us. We won’t. Controlling Our Own Suffering. When we control our suffering, as opposed to letting suffering ...

Parkinson's disease disrupts rhythm. And sometimes PD obliterates rhythm, battering it beyond recognition. But, we don't have to accept it this way. Working to maintain mind-body connections is well worth the effort ... if you call music, dance, sports, games, or the like, effort. I'm learning every day, but I'm grateful to be able to share my approach to coping with PD as of today. Today, now, is all I really have. I hope this video somehow helps ease your Parkinson's burden: ...