Category: Health & Healing

Tips to Stay Healthy During the Cold and Flu Season

Tips to Stay Healthy During the Cold and Flu Season

| October 22, 2010 | 1 Comment

Perspectives on Healthy Living by Coralie Darsey-Malloy With growing concern over swine flu, many people are looking for natural, effective flu prevention and treatment. In my own healing journey and from working with clients in my life-coaching practice, I have found a variety of ways to prevent and treat flu and colds naturally. My mentor, [...]

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Too Busy to Meditate? Think Again!

Too Busy to Meditate? Think Again!

| October 19, 2010 | 0 Comments

By Ronald Alexander The benefits of meditation are many and varied from reducing stress, blood pressure, heart attacks, and strokes to increasing one’s cognition and creativity. As well meditation decreases our need for sleep by heightening our concentration, allowing us to be more productive. Ray Kroc, who took over McDonald’s in its early days and [...]

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Stopping the Suffering Addiction and the Compulsion to Suffer

Stopping the Suffering Addiction and the Compulsion to Suffer

| October 17, 2010 | 0 Comments

by Luis Diaz “Let us not forget this: spiritual consciousness and human thought are quite different things. Thought can begin the search but cannot discover what is real. The human mind can unfurl the sails and start the journey, but then it must stand aside and rest, leaving it to the winds of Truth to [...]

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Boost Your Child’s Brain Power with a Little Imagination

Boost Your Child’s Brain Power with a Little Imagination

| October 14, 2010 | 0 Comments

By Charlotte Reznick PhD It’s just the beginning of the school year and already the test grades are pouring in – not always with the best results. We want our kids to be happy and successful in school. Yet too many are labeled lazy, slow, or disruptive. Does a child you know have a learning [...]

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Pranayama for Overeating

Pranayama for Overeating

| October 8, 2010 | 0 Comments

By Ramdesh Kaur This is at best a painful subject, at worst a dangerous one. Compulsive overeating.  You can’t stop it, you can’t help yourself, and you just keep eating and eating.  You ignore the pain in your stomach, the screech in your mind that says “What are you doing?!?!” and listen to the darker [...]

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How to Deal With a Narcissist

How to Deal With a Narcissist

| September 30, 2010 | 0 Comments

by Judith Orloff, MD As a psychiatrist, I strongly believe that it is important to know about the narcissistic personality so you can have realistic expectations when dealing with coworkers, friends, or family members who may have some of these qualities. In “Emotional Freedom” I describe how to recognize a narcissist. Here are some ways: [...]

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For the Love of Our Children

For the Love of Our Children

| September 27, 2010 | 0 Comments

Omtimes Interview:  Rose-Anne Turunen Interviewer from Omtimes: Deb Graves Note:  This article is edited for space.  For the full article, read OM Times September 2010 Edition We are the voice of our children and we need to take personal responsibility to find all potential solutions for their best health and well-being. When we embark on [...]

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Healthy Recipes for September

Healthy Recipes for September

| September 23, 2010 | 0 Comments

by deZengo “It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.” ~Robert Fuoss Plum Salsa ~~~~~~~~~~~ Ingredients ~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 cup diced plums 1/2 cup diced peaches 1/2 cup diced honeydew 1/2 cup diced [...]

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Two Pathways to Health and Healing

Two Pathways to Health and Healing

| September 21, 2010 | 1 Comment

By Coralie Darsey-Malloy When you buy a pill and buy peace with it… you get conditioned to cheap solutions… instead of deep ones. ~Max Lerner It is becoming increasingly evident that our health care system needs healing. In the past, modern health care has been largely devoted to pathology management of sickness caused by our [...]

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The Healing Power of Family Play

The Healing Power of Family Play

| September 12, 2010 | 0 Comments

By Charlotte Reznick PhD Many years ago I happened upon a magical island in the Mediterranean where families from all parts of Europe took their holidays. The beaches have the warmest, clearest aqua waters, there are fascinating prehistoric “taula” ruins, a bit like Stonehenge, sprinkled about, and the old towns take me back to a [...]

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The Health Benefit of Tears

The Health Benefit of Tears

| September 1, 2010 | 0 Comments

by Judith Orloff For over twenty years as physician, I’ve witnessed, time and again, the healing power of tears. Tears are your body’s release valve for stress, sadness, grief, anxiety, and frustration. Also, you can have tears of joy, say when a child is born or tears of relief when a difficulty has passed. In [...]

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How You Can Change the World

How You Can Change the World

| August 25, 2010 | 0 Comments

Sustainable Wellness 101 By Cristina Smith As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves. -Mahatma Gandhi Do you read the quotes that often appear at the end of people’s emails? [...]

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12 Elements of Emotional Intelligence

12 Elements of Emotional Intelligence

| August 18, 2010 | 1 Comment

By Marcia Sirota MD FRCP (C) Intellect and emotional intelligence are very different things. The former is the cognitive ability to synthesize and analyze data; to problem-solve and make associations based on available information. The latter is a set of innate and learned skills which facilitate relationships and enable a person to negotiate more easily [...]

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Sixty Uses of Baking Soda

Sixty Uses of Baking Soda

| August 13, 2010 | 0 Comments

By Harry Godwin Bicarbonate of soda or baking soda has many different uses in the household. Although much more expensive products have been developed over the years to do the same jobs, baking soda can work for you just as well, if not better. Use it in the following ways: To make your own baking [...]

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Knowing the Demons of the Egoic Mind

Knowing the Demons of the Egoic Mind

| August 1, 2010 | 0 Comments

by Ronald Alexander Doesn’t everyone desire happiness, joy, bliss, and peace? Then why are so many people stuck in unhealthy or unfulfilling jobs and relationships? Traditionally, we’ve been told that to achieve happiness, we should use our minds to figure out what would make us happy and then work hard to achieve our goal. The [...]

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