Lift Your Mood with These Health & Mindfulness Tools
Mood disorders are common, persistent, and disrupting, but tips in lifestyle and environment can turn aggravation into an improved mood. In addition, complementary therapies recommend nutrition, mind-body practices, massage, and acupuncture. These tested modalities along with any medical advice have proven to open the heart, quiet the mind, and cultivate an inner smile. Recruiting the mind, body, and spirit to lift mood is the idea. Mental health is tied to physical and spiritual health. Since poor mental health is a risk factor for physical ailments, the lack of fitness increases the chance of moodiness. Gaining strength, flexibility, and coordination enhances [Read More]
Develop New Habits By Understanding Health Behavior
Habits, the urges and repetitive patterns we constantly entertain. According to researchers at Duke University, habits account for about 40 percent of our behaviors on any given day. Because habits essentially reflect our health, holding on to habits that no longer serve us can be problematic. The Transtheoretical Model and The Process of Change is rich soil for growing better habits for ourselves and others. The stakes for modifying human health are high. According to State Health Access Data Center, 1 out of every 2 adults ages 18 and older had at least 1 of 6 reported chronic disorders ranging [Read More]
Philosophical Physics of Body, Mind & Spirit
The body-mind-spirit connection is a popular call to self care. The interpretation of these aspects are subjective and at times hazy. Because the spirit and mind are often considered synonymous, understanding their physics respectively opens an opportunity to look at the source of fundamental healing. The idea of self-healing is no stranger to Eastern philosophy as contemporary neurobiology weighs in on the macro and micro events that make us human. According to Stanford University, the evolution of natural philosophy into modern physics once was a combined discipline. The word physics is Greek, meaning nature and the study of nature that [Read More]
Use the Eight Limbs of Yoga Inside and Out
From the inside out, The Eight Limbs of Yoga can be a useful tool for meditation as well as thoughtful daily reminders. As the winter approaches, so do the pressures of the holidays. Compounded by seasonal affect disorder, life’s complexities can dim the joy of merriment; however, there is good news. The Eight Limbs of Yoga offers a two-fold solution to the blues by balancing moods while managing our interactions in the cold months that lie ahead. Written by the sage, Patanjali, sometime between 200 BCE to 200 CE, Yoga’s Eight Limbs is an important section in the first of [Read More]
Into the Lotus Wilderness: Traveling Light
In yoga, we learn to relax and calm the mind to feel the essence of our true nature. This peaceful liberated state may also occur spontaneously, just by communing with nature and connecting with its live elegance. Both can inspire an awakening, but how do we make it last? Venturing into the lotus wilderness with the Yamas and Niyamas reveals more about living in our true nature. Buddhist philosopher, Shinzin Young, calls the presence of our true nature an unobstructed clarity and equanimity. It’s easy to loose touch with it when physical, emotional and mental stresses become our compass. How [Read More]
Unmasking Social Intelligence
The study of social intelligence tells us we are empaths, all of us. Our brains are biologically wired to sense the experiences and feelings of others. Daniel Goldman’s book, Social Intelligence, The Revolutionary New Science of Human Relationships, uncovers how this empathetic link helps us to understand someone through a sense of feeling. New discoveries prove just how much relationships shape us and the significance of mindfulness. Because the pattern of another’s micro expressions can literally nurture us or poison us with bad feelings and poor health, masking is really quite revealing. Traveling in the covid-19 crisis, I saw some people not masked-up. [Read More]