Harmony House Yoga Therapy

This is what I call “Yoga”… balancing mind-body-spirit on the daily!

Neuroscience fun fact:

Complaining, judging, or criticizing doesn’t just drag others down

it literally rewires your brain to make you less focused and less effective.

Here’s why:

1. Hebb’s Law: Neurons that fire together, wire together.

Complain often, and you train your brain to see more problems—while missing solutions.

2. Chronic negativity shrinks the prefrontal cortex.

That’s the part of your brain responsible for focus, decision-making, and emotional regulation.

You weaken your problem-solving center while strengthening your problem-spotting one.

3. And yes, research shows complaining makes you less attractive.

Not just socially but neurologically.

Because negativity narrows. Positivity expands.

The inverse is true.

Gratitude and optimism strengthen the prefrontal cortex.

Every time you speak or type, you’re training your brain.

Train it for abundance, not lack.

Because you don’t get what you want in life…

you get what your brain is wired for.

Citation: Servaas, M. N., Riese, H., Renken, R. J., Marsman, J. B., Lambregs, J., Ormel, J., & Aleman, A. (2013). The effect of criticism on functional brain connectivity and associations with neuroticism. PloS one, 8(7), e69606.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0069606

This sums up my summer so far! ❤️