Kindergartners Get Little Time To Play. Why Does It Matter?
Being a kindergartner today is very different from being a kindergartner 20 years ago. In fact it is more like first grade.
3 States Of Mind To Embrace The Coming Energy
There is a barrier of wisdom that is being shattered by those who are choosing light over darkness and love over hatred. Right now there exists a potential for this planet that has never been felt or witnessed at any time in history, and it is mostly due to those who are surfing the new wave of consciousness and showing others how to do the same.
Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Becomes A Disorder
Healthy eating can lead to major improvements in health and well-being. However, for some people, the focus on healthy eating can become obsessive and morph into an eating disorder known as orthorexia.
10 Human Behaviors That Stress Dogs Out
Your dog can become stressed for a variety of reasons. But what many people don't realize is the extent to which we, as pet guardians, can create stress in our dog.
Is There Really A Secret To Inner Peace?
Everyone has his or her definition of what inner peace is. You may describe it as feeling physically, emotionally and spiritually at peace with yourself.
Now In Its 20th Year, Expressive Arts Institute At Salve Regina Accepting Applications For Its Foundation Course
The expressive and creative arts are being widely used worldwide in a variety of human service arenas, including as complementary treatment programs for patients recovering from cancer, heart disease and many other chronic and life-threatening illnesses.
Online Musings: A Belief in Spooky Healing
Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance.” Last year quantum scientists were finally able to prove with certainty that subatomic particles — the stuff of which the entire universe, including you and I, are made — can affect each other at a distance.
The 9 Personalities Which Are Changing The World
Nine distinct personality types make humanity very special, not only in their interactions with each other, but within themselves.
Massachusetts Clinic Treats Refugees With Mindfulness and Medicine From Home
After doctors realized their exam room reminded traumatized patients of torture chambers, they invited Buddhist monks and Cambodian healers to bring age-old therapies to the clinic.
5 Ways Happiness Affects Your Cellular Structure
There is an irrefutable argument in favor of happiness: Happiness and good health go hand-in-hand and scientific studies have been finding that happiness can make our hearts healthier, our immune systems stronger, and our lives longer through enhancements of our cellular structure.
Letting Kids Stand More In The Classroom Could Help Them Learn
Study after study has connected inactivity with negative health outcomes, including heart disease, diabetes and hypertension. But most of this attention has been focused on adults in an office environment, and the negative impact of sitting on physical health.
Those Post-Binge-Watching Blues? They Might Be Real
Many report feeling sad or anxious once a TV binge-watching session has concluded.
Why Boys Need To Have Conversations About Emotional Intimacy In Classrooms
What does it say when a teacher who encourages students to discuss nonsexual ways to express love causes controversy?
How Might My Higher Self View This Election?
If the election has you up in arms it could be because you don’t know how to integrate the relationship between the macrocosm and your microcosm. You might be looking at our political candidates from the perspective of what they will do or not do for us, and there is that, but there is also that they reflect who we are, both light and dark.
Symptoms of Dimensional Shifting: Phase One Is Complete!
How many times have you thought about doing something, turn around and your intent vanished into thin air? You can't remember what you were about to do. The simple fact is that in the act of turning around, you shifted the reality you were in.
The Gift of the Empath
To a certain degree, we are all empathic; it’s programmed into our DNA. As hunter/gatherers, we needed to know when wild animals were about, follow the changes in weather patterns, or where to find our next meal.
Slow Down
Cultivating a slower inner speed is essential to being present and not missing your own life. When you slow down, there is the space to give, receive, connect and enjoy a satisfying life.
Astrological Forecast for Spring/Summer 2016
Mother Earth knows only too well the truth contained in the sage's words. When spring comes and it's time to wake up her Earth, she's all in, and not giving a moment's thought to the passing winter.
Spring/Summer 2016 Book Reviews
Trying to avoid GMO's, animal testing and reduce the amount of synthetic ingredients in your life? Leave the harsh ingredient filled commercial soaps on the shelf and try making your own!
How Kissing Empowers Women
The rise of sexual-romantic kissing throughout history has defied cultural norms and put women in charge of romance.
Art As A Spiritual Practice
I am an artist and yoga teacher. My yoga practice keeps my interior world polished, so, as the Upanishads say, as to be ready for lightening when it strikes.
Year of the Monkey: Touch the Sky
Recognition of the chasm between culture informed by nature and culture that has lost its living literacy with deep ecology will determine what happens to all of us in this generation.
I Love You…Actually I Love Your Microbiome
What determines chemistry between two people? Who has not said, “They have good chemistry together?”
Nine Guiding Intentions That Will Transform You And Everybody Around You
Intention is everything. What you experience daily in your life--how you act, what you speak and how you feel affects every human being around you. Once you realize the domino effect created by shining your light on others, it becomes very contagious.
Horses Help Heal People’s Troubled Bodies And Spirits
Whether or not you believe in holistic medicine, one thing is certain: there is just something about the relationship we humans have with animals that is absolutely incredible!
The Bravest Response To Fear
From strangers on the street to Muslim refugees—why we should embrace the humanity of people we may fear.
How To Boost Your Happiness With Gratitude In 3 Easy Steps
The science is in! And it undoubtedly proves that gratitude is more than just a simple sentiment.
The Music You Listen To Can Enhance Your Meditation
Listening to music while practicing yoga is more of a controversial idea than you might expect. For some people, it just seems to work; for others, it’s a distraction. What’s most important is to select music that you enjoy listening to and music which serves the purpose you’re trying to achieve.
How To Make Joy Part Of Your Healing Process
What if we made joy our treatment goal? Impossible? I hear you, but hear me out.
For A Richer Life, Get Rid Of Your Excess Stuff
Despite advertising messages that assure us happiness is to be found in our next purchase, the opposite tends to be true as mountains of stuff, clutter and debt leave us stressed and unfulfilled.
