Category: Healthy

Use It so you Don’t Lose It

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.

Living with a loving heart

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

What is Mindfulness?

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

Hugs are Healthy

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

Zucchini Bingo

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.

How Sweet It Is…

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

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

Spiritual practice of Silence

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

Western medicine meets the meditative tradition

  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

Prove It!

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

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