Both hygge and feng shui share the characteristics of minimalism and sustainability, including clearing clutter to surround yourself only with those objects that have meaning to you. They also both encourage the indulgence of all your senses.
Pick almost any common medical condition that’s made worse by stress or inflammation — everything from arthritis to inflammatory bowel disease — and there’s research showing that vagus nerve stimulation can help treat it or relieve its symptoms.
If you want to self-heal, you will first need to know how to listen to the guidance of your body. No doctor knows more about how to heal you and keep you well than your own healing intelligence. Your body generally provides this guidance through flashes of inspiration throughout the day.
Your body cannot produce iodine, so you must get it from your food. Although iodine deficiency is reemerging as a public health threat, it is completely preventable in the Western world.
Why do we feel such a distinctly magical effect listening to the sound of the waves? Simply sitting on the beach and listening to the sound of the rolling waves can induce a state of peace promoting serenity, balance, and improved health.
What is behind a transcendent experience? Is this even possible as long as an individual seems to be still caught within the consciousness of separation? A surprising and perhaps relieving answer for the individual desperately searching for this condition comes from neurobiology.
Every day we are faced with hurdles and obstacles. Taking your first shaky steps into something new and wonderful like asana practice might be the most amazing health exploration of your lifetime.
Deciphering the role of endocannabinoids is still an emerging area of health research. Certainly much more research is needed to decipher their role in regulating different functions in the body.
Incorporating stretching into your daily routine is a great way to improve flexibility, reduce the risk of injury, and reach your physical fitness goals. Be sure to warm up before stretching.
It’s important to point out that we cannot always avoid being sick, no matter how good our lifestyle choices may be. Being ill is an opportunity to see where you have gotten out of harmony with the truest needs of your life.
While you may need to modify your exercise routine slightly during pregnancy, physical activity is safe, and in fact recommended, when you’re expecting a baby. One option you might consider is prenatal yoga.
As a natural product, CBD is still acting as a drug – much like aspirin, acetaminophen or even a cancer chemotherapy. Health care providers simply need to better understand the risks or benefits.
There is emerging evidence that vitamin D3 might have two effects preventing the COVID-19 infection itself. Vitamin D3 reduces the number of ACE2 receptor proteins on the cells of the lining of your respiratory tract, and this may protect against the initial infection.
What is amazing is that through manipulation of our subtle energy bodies, we can easily enter this state of consciousness associated with the superconscious mind. We can receive information that is stunning in its vastness and operate in a realm where what we consider magical or mystical becomes the ordinary.
Baystate users of complementary and alternative medicine are again faced with both challenges and opportunities to protect our access to one of the largest networks of affordable holistic healthcare practitioners in the country.
Kava is a plant that if prepared properly, from the correct species, relieves anxiety and opens certain areas of perception, but must be reproduced by humans.
I had been living with pain for over a year and a half, seen seventeen different medical doctors. The only solutions I’d been offered were some sort of invasive procedure but that was more like a bandage than a cure. Was there no middle ground?
Shovelling snow is an activity that will have to get done at some point each winter and it’s important to recognize that it is more than just a chore: it’s a vigorous activity similar to running and a great way to be active.
For no apparent reason at the age of 36, both my emotional state and menstrual cycle became erratic and unpredictable. PMS symptoms were making me miserable and my menstrual cycle was managing my life.
We want every baby to sleep on their back on a surface that is firm and flat, which means not inclined, and safety-approved. So, ideally a crib, a bassinet, a playpen or another product that is approved by the CPSC.
Truth Organic Spa began immediately receiving donations, phone calls, emails, and encouragement from their loyal clientele, other local businesses, and even selfless strangers who had become aware of the challenge this small business was faced with to get up and running again.
B12 is scarce in the diet, and it is found only in foods from animal sources. Without adequate B12 in the body, overall health and quality of life are negatively affected.
About 90% of the nearly $4 trillion Americans spend annually for health care in the U.S. is for chronic diseases and mental health conditions. But there are new lifestyle “medicines” that are free that doctors could be prescribing for all their patients.
An interesting trend has developed: Opioid emergency room visits drop by nearly 8% and opioid prescriptions are modestly lower in states where marijuana is legalized.
What if we, as healers, had the power to create the change we yearn for, and build the bridge to a new healthcare system that truly supports us all? In many ways, holistic practitioners do this already.
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