NEW WAYS TO CHANGE YOUR MIND

Now you can change your mind a new way. BMC Labs just announced their debut Body Mind Change Series line of human enhancement implants, called POD (Personal On Demand).They claim their biotech devices will make people smarter, healthier, sexier, and live longer.

This device builds on your sympathetic nervous system’s reactions to the world around you. And the whole system evolves as BMC’s database grows and adapts. Other brain implants are in development around the world.

Photo: Courtesy of Penn State University. Futuristic Brain Implant.

Genre filmmaker David Cronenberg has teamed up with Lance Weiler (The Last Broadcast), Toronto International Film Festival, and the Canadian Film Center Media Lab, to create a multimedia project, entitled BODY/MIND/CHANGE. This project will allow people to “experience what it is like to live inside a David Cronenberg film” and present “the plausible science fiction found in [Cronenberg’s] work as scientific fact”.

Here’s the trailer. If it entices you to be a guinea pig, click this link and sign up. When registered, you’ll receive a Personal On-Demand (POD).

But wait… what if you change your mind?

Photo: Courtesy of Solutions Recovery. Scan of the Brain while on Marijuana

Changing your mind is often a hard feat to accomplish. Admitting to it takes even more strength of character. And if it involves a heavily controversial topic -- well, you have to really step up.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent for CNN, has emphatically changed his mind. He no longer thinks marijuana is a categorically “bad” thing. It’s brave of him to say so.

In his new documentary, “Weed,” Gupta found, after interviewing medical leaders, experts, growers, and patients, as well as sifting through thousands of studies, old and new, that marijuana may do more good than harm.

Photo: Lollyman. Cannabis Sativa L.

This is in stark contrast to his 2009 Time Magazine article titled "Why I would Vote No on Pot.” “I apologize because I didn't look hard enough, until now. I didn't look far enough. I didn't review papers from smaller labs in other countries doing some remarkable research, and I was too dismissive of the loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis,” Gupta says.

Since he has been investigating further, Gupta found no scientific proof that weed is addictive or dangerous. “We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.”

Photo: Courtesy of To Your Health. Medical Marijuana.

Gupta has now witnessed how it has helped people. He cites an example of Charlotte Figi, who started suffering with seizures soon after birth. Despite traditional medical intervention, she had 300 seizures per week by the age of three. Medical marijuana reduced that number to two.

Marijuana has also been shown to manage certain kinds of pain, such as neuropathic pain, better than any other known treatment.

Photo: Jynto. Chemical structure of THC.

Part of the problem is that only 6% of all marijuana studies focus on its benefits, while the rest are trying to find negative outcomes. And it’s hard for US scientists to get a hold of legal samples for testing.

Studies in Spain and Israel are looking at the anti-cancer effects of marijuana and its components. Others are investigating the potential of the drug to alleviate symptoms of PTSD.

WIth access to new information, and an open mind, we get a changed mind. Now, Gupta thinks that it is time that we all change our minds.

Photo: Courtesy of Chicago Reader. Medical Marijuana.

And minds are changing. In a recent survey, 76% of physicians recently surveyed said they would approve the use of marijuana to help ease a woman's pain from breast cancer.

Citizens in 20 states and the District of Columbia have now voted to approve marijuana for medical applications, and more states will be making that choice soon.

We wrote about the benefits of marijuana can yield for the brain in our post Feeding Your Beautiful Brain. Check it out.

Gupta now thinks “It is irresponsible not to provide the best care we can as a medical community, care that could involve marijuana.

Photo: Courtesy of Change Your Mind Change the World. Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama encourages positively changing perceptions and priorities. He spoke recently at the Change Your Mind Change the World conference about changing your mind through focused exercise, positive emotions, altruism and passion. He believes we can change the world, one mind at a time.

Photo: Dr. Mitch Gaynor & Jon Regen. Change Your Mind Album Cover

If you’d like some brainwave entertainment while you change your mind, check out Change Your Mind, a new collection of music by Dr. Mitch Gaynor & Jon Regen, that just might change the way you operate. Titles include Alpha Trinity, Delta Bliss, Gamma Waves, Harmonic Symphony, Nature Raining Peace.

Read about the art and beauty of Change all this week, as it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science,Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including New Messages are Changing Worlds, How to Change Your Life & World, Beautiful New Changed Realities, Beautiful Food Color Changes, The Art of Change, and Where to Watch Change Happen Now.

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