Crystal Bowl Vibrations
Music soothes the wild beast in all of us, as just listening to your favorite songs regularly can be a great form of self-care. Crystal bowls elevate music even further into the realm of healing the body, mind and soul.
Author: TownNews Staff - Amanda Keim-Morrison
What Is Embodiment?
Embodiment is the missing piece that gets us out of our head and into the whole. Once that happens, everything works better. We do it by dropping into our body, in a compassionate and connected way. It’s actually very simple to do.
Good News Headlines 9/28/2026
The Nyerere-Udzungwa Wildlife Corridor (NUWC), Tanzania’s first official wildlife corridor, links savanna elephants to rainforest, and is the country’s first wildlife corridor to be given official protection. It’s designed to keep elephants out of people’s crop fields.
Do We Own Our Beliefs Or Do They Own Us?
The trouble isn't that we entered a rabbit hole; curious minds naturally do. The trouble begins when we forget that the rabbit hole is only one part of a much larger landscape.
October 2026 Daily Astrology
October 1: Rabbit! Rabbit! October arrives with a waning Gemini Moon promoting camaraderie and common interests. Harmonious lunar angles to the Sun, Saturn and Jupiter provide a fertile climate for students busy learning, travel adventures and business interests. However, mental…
What Scientists Have Discovered About Breastmilk Changes Everything
There’s a billion-year-old process that happens millions of times a day all over the planet, and it’s smarter than any pharma company could ever imagine: real-time, personalized, immune medicine, custom-blended for one specific child at a time.
Travel Better: Take The Tracks
By sidestepping the chaos of airports, you protect your mind. By enjoying the freedom to move and relax in a spacious environment, you care for your body. Importantly, by selecting a lower-impact journey, you also honor the planet.
How to Choose a Healing Retreat That Supports Lasting Change
A beautiful location and an inspiring schedule do not automatically make a retreat a good fit. Choosing with care helps ensure that the experience supports your well-being both during the program and when you return home.
Good News Headlines 9/21/2026
In a stunning display of profit sharing, the Fertitta brothers announced that each of Station Casinos’ 10,000 employees were to receive a bonus consisting of $1,000 of company stock for every year they’ve been on the payroll, totaling $70 million in gifts.
The Medicine Waiting For Us Outside
For nearly all of human history, our ancestors lived in constant contact with the natural world. Bare feet on soil. Skin under open sky. Lungs full of air that moved with the weather instead of a fan belt. This medicine has been here the whole time, waiting for us to come back outside.
Discover Your Connection With The Subtle Realms
We take incarnation into the sphere of Earth for many reasons, but I believe that at the core of all of them, we are each here as an agent of life, to foster, nourish, and expand the expression of life both within ourselves and in the world — in Gaia — around us.
Could You Survive The Oregon Trail? An Emergency Medicine Doctor Offers Tips On How To Not Die In The Great Outdoors
Nature is no less powerful or unforgiving than it was on the Oregon Trail, and treating it with respect is essential. Combining advances in modern medicine with thoughtful preparation helps stack the odds in your favor.
Good News Headlines 9/14/2026
The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favor of the 2018 Earth Equal design that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
Autumn 2026 Astrological Forecast
Each season begins with a pro-active cardinal sign. Libra is the sign of partnering, engaging the mirror that every relationship presents. Libra’s eternal question may well be, why can’t we all just get along? This is the time to seek harmony with friends as well as rivals.
Listen Deeply To Awaken Your Wild Scribe
Nature is bursting with creativity at every moment. You contain a unique expression of that creativity. The world wants and needs it to flourish. How to receive the wisdom and wonder of the world about you.
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People With Tourette Syndrome, Like Billie Eilish, Use Everything In Their Power To Suppress Tics – A Key To Treatment
Suppressing tics can be distracting and exhausting, yet decades of research has shown that tic suppression can be strengthened and used therapeutically.
Good News Headlines 9/7/2026
A rare win In Indian Country — what happened was something that almost never happens in Indian country: a coalition of tribes and organizers banded together and drove out a mining company in a matter of days.
Why Breathe Consciously?
Imagine trying to smell a fragrant flower with a stuffy nose. Now imagine smelling that flower with clear nasal passages and the most refined olfactory senses. Imagine all of your senses open, receptive, and refined in ways that enable you to sense with them in the most delicate, subtle, and nuanced ways.
Getting From Here To There
Soul rotation allows us to access the higher levels of soul gifts we have longed for and always known were within us. As we grow into expressions of the larger potential that our higher self holds, it gives us new strength and confidence.
Gratitude: The Words That Go Before Everything Else
People who scored highest on gratitude were also most likely to eat well, engage in regular physical exercise, get enough sleep, and handle stress well, the constellation of behaviors and habits that are both signals of good health and things that explicitly promote good physical and mental health.
Why Are You So Lonely?
The “fix” is not in another class, more friends on Facebook, more likes, or another way to medicate yourself or dumb yourself down enough to be with others. The fix, if you will, is in spending time with yourself. Alone.
Good News Headlines 8/31/2026
With complications from diabetes taking its toll, a Chinese man outfits his van and takes his paralyzed wife on an epic road trip across coastal Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces: ‘Die on the road, not in a hospital.’
‘Must I Take All My Antibiotics?’ Why Infectious Disease Experts Are Rethinking This Longstanding Rule
What’s important to remember, however, is that the goal isn’t simply to take fewer antibiotics but to use them for the shortest amount of time that has been shown to safely and effectively treat a particular infection.
Designing Your Own Zen Space At Home
You can transform part of your home into a zen space that sets the stage for meaningful practices to disconnect you from the chaos of daily life, and reconnect you with your inner self and a positive, energetic flow in your life.
Could Psilocybin Break Through Where Antidepressants Failed?
While antidepressants can synthetically boost mood on schedule, psychedelics offer depression sufferers a new worldview and a reason to be happy.
September 2026 Daily Astrology
September 1: Rabbit! Rabbit! A gnarly Mars/Saturn square dominates the dawn sky. Some souls wake up feeling grumpy. Caution is advised. Mother knows best during these early hours of the day. Follow her instructions. By midmorning the cosmos shifts gears.…
Where Traditional Chinese Medicine And Modern Nutrition Science Meet
The most common mistake people make about TCM and Western nutrition science is treating them as rival answers to the same question. They are answers to two different questions, and once you see that, most of the apparent conflict dissolves.
Good News Headlines 8/24/2026
Filmed in Utah, two-time Emmy winner "Navajo Highways" is a children's puppet series told almost entirely in Navajo to help kids learn the language. Creator Pete Sands said the show is a way to keep the language alive for kids who might otherwise never hear it.
What Happens When Americans Escape America’s Food Supply?
We shouldn’t have to fly to Rome to feel healthy again, and a good start for those of us who must eat on this continent is to buy fresh, locally-grown, ideally organic food and make as many as possible of our meals at home.
Green Roofs Can Help Cool Cities In The Summer Heat, But Building Them Is Only The First Step – Many Don’t Survive
One way to help cool buildings is to install green roofs – living rooftops covered by plants that can transform heat-absorbing rooftops into cooling solutions.
Good News Headlines 8/17/2026
“This is what’s working,” report nine indigenous leaders from around the world on biodiversity and climate solutions in their communities. Mongabay interviewed these diverse leaders to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.
Buddha's Triangle: A Simple Practice For Calming The Mind And Opening The Heart
Many of us live with a nervous system that is constantly on alert. We move quickly from one responsibility to the next, often carrying worry, grief, self-judgment, or emotional exhaustion without realizing how deeply these experiences affect our body and spirit.
7 Unique Paths To A Quieter Mind
Quieting the mind often means speaking the language of your body and spirit first. Experiment with these techniques to find what helps you feel a little lighter, and eventually you will discover the peace you've been seeking has been there all along.
Your Low Back Isn't The Problem — It's The Messenger
A realistic starting routine looks like this: hip flexor stretch, both sides, morning and evening; glute bridges, ten to fifteen reps, two to three sets, once daily; and a movement break every 30 to 45 minutes during long periods of sitting.
Taxi Drivers Rarely Die Of Alzheimer’s – How Complex Mental Maps And Spatial Reasoning Protect Your Brain
If demanding spatial thinking protects the brain, then how societies design schooling, professional training and retirement all become questions of brain health.
Good News Headlines 8/10/2026
New Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill has announced statewide housing resources and a coordinated support system that ensure no veteran has to go homeless in the state. Now, more veterans consistently enter housing in New Jersey each month than enter homelessness.
How Traditional Chinese Medicine Resolved My Aged-Related Macular Degeneration
Working to dry up the fluid caused by wet AMD, my TCM practitioner compounded an effective combination of herbs that directly addressed the issues I was experiencing, treating both liver and eyes, and balancing my entire body.
Use Journaling To Unmask The Issues In Your Tissues And Find Solutions
To fully harness the power of journaling, it is important to understand it’s a two-way street. It’s not just dumping and dumping and dumping (although it can be seriously useful for that). It’s a learning process, too.
Good News Headlines 8/3/2026
Zero roadkill has been recorded as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 wildlife crossings, and Brazil’s federal transport department officially designates the rope bridge design as the recommended national standard for highways to curb the millions of wildlife deaths recorded on roads annually.
The Real Story Behind “The Twilight Zone”
For five seasons beginning in 1959, Serling appeared on American television in a black suit, holding a cigarette, introducing stories about the impossible. The episodes ran in front of millions of viewers. The sponsors sold their products in the commercial breaks. The network executives watched the ratings with satisfaction.
How To Harness Intuition Through Intentional Cloud Gazing
Cloud gazing works because it slows the brain down long enough for that quieter voice to surface. I found that the sky often feels most helpful when I stop asking it for answers and simply let myself notice what appears.
Seth Speaks: Which You, Which World?
We are not just the sum of this lifetime, or a lifetime of sequential lifetimes. Our lives are multidimensional simultaneous lifetimes which allow us to view and interact with our essential nature in order to heal, learn and grow from these experiences.
Good News Headlines 7/27/2026
A man dressed as Spider-Man helped a person in a wheelchair cross a busy street in Arkansas. A traffic camera caught it on video and the Jonesboro Police Department posted the footage on social media hours later.
Cooperation Was Here First
Cooperation in nature isn’t the absence of self-interest. It’s what happens when self-interest discovers, over and over, across billions of years, that the partners who work together tend to outlast the ones who only fight.
August 2026 Daily Astrology
August 1: For many souls today is a relaxing summer idyll. The waning Pisces Moon promotes mellow moods. Tap into the spirit of the season and enjoy the passing hours. A lunar aspect to Mercury encourages stream of consciousness thinking…
To Afford Aging In Place, Older Adults Turn To ‘Golden Girls’ Housing
Home sharing can’t solve the housing crisis, its fans acknowledge. But it could make a dent, potentially unlocking thousands of spare bedrooms across the country without requiring new construction that would change the character of neighborhoods.
The Sacred Art of Grief
The sacred art of grief reminds us that love is larger than absence and that the deepest part of every life is not measured by what we accumulated or achieved, but by the love we awakened in others.
Good News Headlines 7/20/2026
Four states — Utah, Virginia, Idaho, and Oregon — just made it easier to build wildlife crossings, and the bipartisan effort is being called a 'blueprint.' Conservationists are celebrating.
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October 1, 2026
Rabbit! Rabbit! October arrives with a waning Gemini Moon promoting camaraderie and common interests. Harmonious lunar angles to the Sun, Saturn and Jupiter provide a fertile climate for students busy learning, travel...
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