We in the modern West assume that the normal mind is a healthy one. But a "healthy mind" is still subject to many types of distress, including depression, anxiety, frustration, restlessness, boredom, and resentment. Only when such imbalances are excessive are we advised to seek...
Read More↓ 5 Things You Must Do if You’ve Been Emotionally Neglected When you are launched into adulthood with your feelings pushed away and a belief that you don’t matter, how do you come back? Imagine a child, growing up in a house full of people. Imagine him knowing,...
Read MoreHow to Stop Speaking Harshly to Yourself ↓ Harsh self-talk is a pattern of learned behavior, and the good news is we can unlearn it. Recently, I read an interview with author Danielle LaPorte where she stated that she never speaks meanly to herself. “Not ever.” This blew my mind. Because...
Read More↓ Fight Inflammation All Day Long Here’s how to fight chronic inflammation, all day long. ↓ Inflammation can be good. If you’re injured or sick, it’s part of the body’s natural response. And if you have a strenuous workout, inflammation goes up—that’s not a bad thing. But chronic inflammation,...
Read MoreSpring Clean Your Diet ‘Tis the season for cleaning, but as you get out your vacuum and mop, consider spring-cleaning your diet. ↓ Convenience reigns when it comes to health. This is indicative in plastic water bottles and snack subscription boxes. But when diet fads fade, where do...
Read More10 Resources for Clean Eating A useful list of inspiration and recipes to eat clean ↓ Eating clean has a bad rep. Stigmas such as costly products, complex recipes, lengthy instructions, and health food lacking in taste and variety keep many individuals from taking on the challenge of...
Read More↓ Balance Your Body’s PH How simple changes to your diet can reduce the effect of acid-forming foods. Visualize how your ideal body, your human home, would feel. Visualize the sensations within your body when it’s healthy, whole, and functioning perfectly. Got an image? Good. Chances are, this body...
Read MoreFinally Stop Ruminating ↓ You can't control what you think, but you can control how you respond to what you think. ↓ There’s good ruminating: Walking through the majestic oaks, contemplating life. And there’s bad ruminating, such as “I can’t believe I said that! Stupid! Stupid!” For some people,...
Read More7 Ways to Take Care and Take Action What do we do when facing what appear to be insurmountable challenges of our time? These could be very good times. We might look back from the future and tell stories about how people of all ages, and race...
Read MoreWhat’s An Emotional Hangover? ⇓ Feelings can linger long after an experience and can affect how we remember it. Just as a late night out with too many glasses of merlot can lead to next-day effects, scientists have found that emotions can cause “hangovers” as well. Unlike a...
Read MoreWhy We’re So Emotional When We’re Tired ↓ A new study has identified exactly why we get so emotional when we have been burning the candle at both ends. If you’ve been staying up late, trying to keep up with the holidays, you’re probably feeling pretty cranky and...
Read MoreHow Do I Survive the Pain? How do we summon the courage to look at the animal abuse that makes us all want to look the other way? If we don’t look, we’re certain to never help the animals. Most of my students these days don’t...
Read MoreAyurveda to Boost Your Immunity Stay well this winter season with an Ayurvedic diet, proper self-care, and yoga. Ayurvedic wisdom teaches us that we’re part of the natural world. So, to stay healthy, we must remain in harmony with nature by adopting a lifestyle balancing of the...
Read MoreTea for What Ails You How to use herbal teas to treat common health maladies and get back on the path to wellness. * Tea is more than a beverage; herbal teas contain many medicinal properties. The next time you’re in need of health and healing, head to...
Read More16 Affirmations for Coping With Grief May these affirmations offer some comfort as you go through the grieving process and strive for deeper meaning. * Sometimes we talk of “managing” grief, and it’s true, there is no shortage of grief management programs, but I find this a rather...
Read More* 6 Meditations For Personal Transformation Here are six meditations for personal transformation. * Human beings crave comfort. What I’ve noticed during my 14 plus years of practice is that comfort is an end-point for many people. “I want to be comfortable,” is what we say. We link comfort...
Read More* 7 Health-Boosting Reasons to Eat Olives Every Day (Plus 8 Recipes To Help You) * Olives are full of healthy fats that improve heart health and antioxidants that combat inflammation. * “Wait, did you purposely order olives on this?” Yes, I did. Because it’s a pizza, and I’m Italian and...
Read More* Neem, Ayurveda’s Favorite Remedy For Inflammation * Neem, the body’s fire fighter * Herbs are like people in that they have unique personalities that can be understood through dravyaguna. * Dravyaguna is the system of Ayurvedic pharmacology that was developed thousands of years ago before chromatography and mass spectrometry and so it...
Read More* What Your Nails Can Tell You About Your Health * Anything going on inside your body will eventually appear on the outside—and your fingernails are a prime place for these changes to manifest. Visit a palm reader, and they’ll appear to glean important info from scrutinizing your hand...
Read More* Pain, Explained * A new study suggests that pain should be seen as a complex interplay of elements that form an experience called pain. You hit your thumb with a hammer. And you swear. That’s pain. It’s that simple. Or is it? Scientists at the Max Planck Institute...
Read More* How Inflammation Affects Your Emotions * Learn to recognize these four types of emotional inflammation. Typically, the word inflammation is associated with the different ways that bodies respond to their environment. This can include reactions to certain types of food in which allergens are capable of producing an...
Read More* 6 Secrets of Happy Relationships * Before the battles begin, we start out believing that being with this person will make us happy. Ironically, that’s the critical mistake… “This isn’t working. Let’s just get a divorce,” Caroline said, as she stormed out of their new house. Wally stopped...
Read More* Sorry, But Opposites Do Not Attract * A new study shows humans are drawn to people who are similar to them, whether it’s for romance or friendship. * Yin and yang. Night and day. Opposites create sparks; they make for tension—those dynamic conversations between friends, or, that hot sex...
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