Your body is designed to experience stress and react appropriately. Stress will put you in fight-or-flight mode, alert and ready to avoid danger. The body also experiences physiologic responses, such as increased heart and respiratory rates, to enable immediate action. However, increased incidences of illness can develop if these physiologic changes are not restored to […]
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Pre-pregnancy cleansing
June 16, 2013
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by Dr. Adrienne Stewart — Preventative medicine has lifelong benefits. The earlier you invest in your health, the greater the returns you can expect throughout life. Imagine the benefits of a healthy lifestyle as a young child or even before you were born. That is why preconception care can be very healing, not only for […]
The colors of creativity
April 1, 2013
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by Shelia Eastman — I love being creative every day. All my life I have been told I am very creative. For that matter, I often have too many ideas, which makes it hard to stop the flow. But I believe that everyone, with a little practice, can and should be over-the-top creative. You often […]
Past life energies in relationships
February 25, 2013
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by Rochelle Sparrow — What type of a relationship are you in? Does your partner validate your emotions and help support who you are? Are you with someone who enriches your life? If not, why not? Answering these questions can often be a complex process of recognizing energies we are holding from past lives that […]
Priorities for peace of mind
February 13, 2013
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by Ada Porat — The busier our lives become, the more important it is to have crystal-clear priorities in order to stay on track. Clear priorities require an understanding that our source of happiness and fulfillment comes not from the world around us, but from the animating spark of divinity within each of us. Even […]
Intuition and meditation
February 12, 2013
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by Khayriyyah Savannah — We hear a lot of talk about our inner voice or intuition and using it to access our inner knowing. How do we know when it is our inner voice we are hearing? The term “gut feeling” offers a clue as to where our intuition might be located — if it […]
Sitting in the silence
September 4, 2012
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by Khayriyyah Savannah — Visiting my sister’s home deep in the woods of Eugene, Ore., high on the simple purity of fresh clean air, my being is instantaneously imbued with a deep and resounding peace I call “the silence.” Brimming with the vibrational resonance of nature, it is Earth singing. I can feel my whole […]
How cancer works
August 17, 2012
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by Nina Anderson — Most people think that cancer is evil, but basically it is a dysfunctional cells that have been misguided into not dying. The T cells in the body control these cancer cells. T cells convert nitrogen into nitric acid, which dissolves cancer cells, but normal cells are not affected because they are […]
Meditation improves the immune system
August 16, 2012
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Many natural methods are available to keep us healthy, but only recently have researchers begun to prove the benefits of these methods. Research shows that if you want to improve your health and your immune system, try meditation. The practice — an essential part of Buddhist and Indian yoga traditions — has entered the mainstream, […]
Healing your emotional pain
July 14, 2012
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by Glenyss Lim — How often have you said, “Oh, I’m all right,” when in fact you were hurting, crying out inside, stressed, angry or not knowing how to handle the circumstances of your life or the feelings you were carrying around? You are not alone. We are all together in this mystery called life. […]
Spiritual makeover: Three simple practices to a more fulfilling life
July 10, 2012
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by Dr. Sirah Vettese — As queens of the modern makeover, we bought the clothes, colored the hair, got the personal trainer and remodeled the kitchen. Still, we feel unfulfilled, overwhelmed and underappreciated. What gives? Many people live with an underlying sense that their lives are not quite what they could be. Their thoughts are […]
Qigong for a healthy life
April 12, 2012
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by Sheila Eastman — What if you had a self-healing tool at your fingertips that you could use every day to put your mind, body and spirit in a great place? This tool would help you quiet your mind for clarity, improve memory and ease decision making. This self-healing tool is qigong, pronounced “chee-gong.” There […]
Making powerful decisions
April 12, 2012
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by Ada Porat — “Every option seems to have a down side. How do I know which is best? I just do not know what to do,” a friend recently complained. She was caught in a quandary. After losing a well-paying job and pounding the pavement for months to find another, an excellent opportunity came […]
June 20, 2013
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