The horoscope for the start of winter is powerful and complex. There are excellent omens. Sun is conjunct retrograde Mercury and both stars are in delightful harmony with a Moon/Jupiter conjunction in early Taurus.
Save the date for the Natural Living Expo, November 16 & 17, 2024 at the Best Western Royal Plaza Trade Center in Marlborough, MA. Now in its 17th year!
Grit is about being mentally tough. It’s about having a backbone and that driving force that helps us stick to our goals while we hit every bump in the road. Even if we fall or fail, we get right back up in the saddle and gather up our courage, strength, and stamina to carry on.
These herbs have a special connection with Yuletide and Christmas, and all are valuable winter medicines. As you work with each one, whether in cooking, ritual or medicine, think also of the spiritual qualities and magic the plant embodies.
The answer to treating your cold does not lie in the medicine cabinet. Use a combination of lifestyle choices, herbal remedies and vitamin supplementation to fight the virus and support your immune system against viral attacks.
What if instead, you chose to develop a relationship with your energy that feeds and honors its preciousness? From that way of being, you fill yourself first while also paying tribute to an authentic relationship because you are giving from a place of fullness.
Ancient California redwoods in Big Basin, some of which are over 2,000 years old, have defied scientists’ expectations and sprouted new shoots from blackened trunks, and will recover in time. The study presented a fascinating finding that changes how we short-lived fleshlings perceive our slow woody neighbors.
The deliberate promotion of health within the environment where of our working hours are dedicated can yield profound effects beyond the confines of the workplace, influencing our personal lives, families, and community.
Perhaps grandmothers, with their additional resources and valuable experience, are the result of species success—and their success becomes the success of their children, their grandchildren, and their species.
Plants can teach us all kinds of meaningful lessons. One of their powerful truths is that variety is literally the spice of life. I’m thankful for their tasty chemical defenses every time I cook.
Last year, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a sweeping federally funded report that associated PFAS exposure with health effects like decreased response to vaccines, cancer, and low birth weight.
The reason for our holiday generosity is obvious to us as adults. We hold a sense of moral responsibility to be kind and get a satisfying feeling of having done a good deed. For children, it can sometimes be less clear why, when and how they should show kindness to others.
Aromatherapy is the art of healing the mind, body and spirit with essential oils, which have been harvested from nature.
Residents of the Swedish city of Luleå take on loneliness by welcoming the new campaign encouraging them to say hello to each other during dark winter months with just three hours of sunlight everyday.
For many, a large gap exists between being nurtured and nurturing others. Some of the most tender, loving, generous people tend to not share that same warmth with themselves. It’s not enough to occasionally squeeze in time for the things that nourish us. It’s important to make these a priority and grant time for them each day.
To ensure you have good coverage for both current and unforeseeable health needs, you should enroll in traditional Medicare. In traditional Medicare, you and your doctor decide the care you need, with no prior approval.
Welcome to the United Repair Centre, the latest venture helping Amsterdam become one of the world’s first fully circular cities by using refugees as full time employees to repair ripped or broken clothing that would otherwise be dumped in the bin.
Sex designation is not as simple as a glance and then a check of one box or another. Instead, the overwhelming evidence shows that sex is not binary. To put it another way, the terms “male” and “female” don’t fully capture the complex biological, anatomical and chromosomal variations that occur in the human body.
In acknowledging the limitations in using BMI as a general measure of health or as a tool to assess the need for obesity treatment, the AMA has taken an important step toward diminishing the role of BMI in clinical practice.
As healthcare system dysfunction increases, more people are tuning in to the existence of their own healing power, which is always accessible, affordable and trustworthy to receptive users. With patience and practice, they are developing their self-healing skills, healing all that is meant to be healed.
Fed up with insurers saying no too often, state legislators thought they’d solved the problem by passing hundreds of laws spelling out exactly what had to be covered. But companies have continued to dodge bills for pricey treatments, even as industry profits have risen.
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