The brain fitness channel has this good advice for selecting activities that help keep your brain sharp: 1.They should teach you something new. The brain is a learning machine. To keep it strong, you must continually develop new skills. 2.…
The brain fitness channel has this good advice for selecting activities that help keep your brain sharp: 1.They should teach you something new. The brain is a learning machine. To keep it strong, you must continually develop new skills. 2.…
Heart is the only organ in the human body that has earned a fair amount of fame and prominence. Right from a poet, novelist, lyricist, paeans have all sung about the mischief of the heart. If you feel touched your…
Two doctors in Australia have developed a therapy approach, MiCBT, that is based on mindfulness principles. This is the description of mindfulness that they post on their website for their clients. Mindfulness involves paying attention to each event experienced in…
It helps the body’s immune system, it keeps you healthier, it cures depression, it reduces stress, it induces sleep, it’s invigorating, it is rejuvenating, it has no unpleasant side effects, and hugging is nothing less than a miracle drug. Hugging…
Vegetarian Zucchini Bingo Source: The Classic Zucchini Cookbook, modified for ovo-lacto vegetarians TO START: Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 cup of sliced zucchini and 1 sliced onion, and sauté until crisp-tender.…
For the month of June, we limited our sugar intake to 20-25 grams of sugar per day. The idea for this came after watching Wayne Dyer’s interview on Ellen DeGeneres, where he said that Americans now eat an average of…
Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light, by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, provides training on how to remember your dreams, and a world of additional dreamy advice. By focusing in a prescribed manner (detailed in the book) and…
Gandhi observed ‘maun vrat’ (day of silence) on Mondays to order his cluttered mind and renew his vision, as well as to complete outstanding work. That was also the day he fasted. Since we can’t really be silent for a whole day…
The Dalai Lama visited Mayo Clinic in Rochester in 2008, not as a patient (although he reportedly does entrust his medical care to Mayo), but to help advance the integration of Eastern meditative healing practices with the West’s technologies…
A recent reader comment closed with: “Those scientists… if they can’t prove it, it doesn’t exist”, which is I think one of the rules those scientists go by. (I don’t know for sure; I’m not a scientist.) It is time that…