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Words Have Weight

The more conscious we become, the more we deepen our relationship to the words we choose to use.

One of the world’s most prolific wildlife sound recordists has released a large collection of his most treasured recordings of wild places to listen to for free on Soundcloud, as he nears the end of his life.

A New Star In The Sky

Spirit of Change co-founder, Marcia Manoogian, is now numbered among the stars up in the sky.

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6 No-Nonsense Self-Care Strategies That Don’t Cost A Thing

Self-care means creating a life that doesn’t need bandages to make it bearable. It helps to differentiate between when you need to take better care of yourself and when you need your community’s help.

What You Eat Can Reprogram Your Genes – An Expert Explains The Emerging Science Of Nutrigenomics

The latest evidence suggests that food also “talks” to our genome, which is the genetic blueprint that directs the way the body functions.

How To Responsibly Donate To Ukrainian Causes

You can wisely choose causes with the potential to do the most good in the middle of this humanitarian crisis by giving with your head as well as your heart. Here are five guidelines.

Awaken Your Intuitive Relationship to Food

In today’s food-obsessed culture we’re inundated with people talking about the benefits of going vegan, eating gluten-free, removing sugar from our diets and more. While all these choices might be excellent health options, oftentimes they’re presented in the form of “guilt marketing.”

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6 Ways For Business Owners To Keep Employees Happy

Employees are the most important assets of any business. Since good employees are so hard to find, business owners should do everything possible to keep them.

Five Mindfulness Tools For Pain

One Buddhist meditation teacher is fond of asking his students, “Why does your knee hurt when you meditate?” After entertaining a few answers, he smiles impishly and laughs, “Because you have a body.”

Good News Headlines 3/2/2022

A huge Moai statue, one of the iconic stone monuments from Easter Island, began its journey back home on Monday, after being removed and taken to Santiago, where it has been housed since 1870. The return of the statue comes after a years-long campaign to have it returned.

How To Get Involved In Your Community In A Fulfilling Way

Getting involved with your community is deeply fulfilling and allows you to make a real difference in people's lives. Even small donations of time, money, or effort make a big difference in your local community.

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How Nanoplastics Enter The Human Body

In the past decade, scientists have detected microplastic in the bodies of fish and shellfish; in packaged meats, processed foods, beer, sea salt, soft drinks, tap water, and bottled water. If you regularly drink water from plastic bottles, you’re likely ingesting even more plastic than the average consumer.

A Way Of Life In Danger

Organic farmers face unprecedented challenges to preserving their livelihoods as government missteps plus the takeover of organic brands by multinational agribusinesses erode trust in the organic label.

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Choose Your Sunglasses Wisely

Sunglasses are a health protection tool will ensure that people who exercise in the morning or afternoon do not suffer eye damage from sun exposure. However, not all sunglasses are the same.

Expect Your Body To Heal And It Can

Thirty-five years of professional research and personal experience now confirm to me that humans are endowed with powerful, healing tools that we can learn to use on ourselves and others. The most powerful of these is the belief the body can heal itself.

Young Attractive Ethnic Woman Holding Her Newborn Baby Under Dramatic Lighting.

When You Let Yourself Feel Love

Love has the capacity to take our breath away, even when it just touches us on the surface. But from there we have a choice: to brush it off or to breathe it in and allow it to change us forever.

Our Senses Are Our Allies

All of these are gifts, our bodies tuned to the energy, our senses picking out the nuances, with every pore open in our being. We are living vessels of sensation and feeling, dancing with the joy and magic of it all.

Vinegret Traditional Russian Vegetable Salad.

Beeting Judgments

In the kitchen, beets are one of those poor veggies that everyone judges. They come covered in dirt and have a hairy tail. They stain your fingers and have a long cooking time. Yet beets are high in the compound betaine, a mind relaxant that helps treat some forms of depression.