Blog | Dr. Amy Johnson

How a Basic Understanding of Your Brain Can Free You From Pretty Much Anything

The publisher of The Little Book of Big Change asked me to write something for their blog about the lower brain.I was a little hesitant.Not because an understanding of the brain isn’t super interesting. It is.And seeing how the brain works in a deeper, more insightful way–beyond the mechanics–can be incredibly freeing. It was for

Here’s How We’re Going to End the Violence. I Have a Plan.

Okay guys, here’s how we’re going to end this senseless violence nonsense. I have a plan. And it includes you, so listen up.I need you to realize the truth about your human experience and your spiritual essence—what is real and what isn’t—as deeply and fully and as you can.I know that sounds bossy. And I get

Your But Is Too Big

When I was seven or eight years old, I got to pick out two flavored lip balms from my mom’s Avon catalog. The flavors I chose were Banana Split and Strawberry Shortcake. The lip balms came in tubes just like real, grown up lipstick. This was the highlight of my summer, no kidding.The fancy-looking Avon lady

Sadness, Humiliation and Depression

I’m not typically sad. Of course I experience up and down moods like anyone, but depressed isn’t a feeling that visits very often.Except for this past summer.Off and on, here or there. There was a depth to my moods that I can’t remember experiencing in the past. A flat feeling that I recognized in theory, even

The Implications of Being Born Habit-Free

Back in June I was a guest on Human Being TV, which is a great little YouTube channel devoted to sharing the Three Principles understanding.We talked about the fact that we are born habit-free, with a design based on our shared, innate health.We talked about what habits really are and how change really happens.We talked

Why Tools and Practices Are Nice, but They Aren’t ‘It’.

I spent years feeling less-than because I wasn’t a regular meditator. (Wait…you too?)It just seemed so appealing. So magical.There you are in stillness, tapped into something far deeper than your typical, mind-manufactured experience.Feeling at one with all of life, in complete peace and tranquility. Insights and creative ideas flowing through you.Wayne Dyer said people around him

You Can’t Heal Trauma or Rewire your Brain

Three of Gwen’s immediate family members died, and two of her remaining family members cut off their relationship with her, within a 10-month time span. A month after the third death she asked the not-at-all-rhetorical question, “How do I get over this?”“What do I do? How do I heal myself from the trauma of so much

You Don’t Have an Inner Pig. Your Habit is Actually Your Best Friend.

There are several books out there who talk about your habit—and the thoughts and feelings that lead you to engage in your habit—as the enemy.They talk about a monster, saboteur, beast, or pig that (metaphorically, of course) lives within you and leads you to into your habit over and over.There is so much value in

Love Comes More Naturally than its Opposite

“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” –Nelson Mandela I remember giving

When Seeing Life as Black-or-White is Incredibly Insightful

Life isn’t really black-or-white…but seeing it that way has been one of the most helpful things I’ve ever done.Here’s the either/or I’d like you to consider:We’re either in life, in the moment, immersed and present…that’s one end of the spectrum.Or we’re in our heads, in our personal thought systems and our subjective realities. That’s the