Have you ever stumbled across a realization in one area of your life that unlocks the door to understanding in another? This can occur with relative frequency to the degree that you view your life holistically, rather than as a collection of compartments. Modern science conditions us to think reductively, to the point that our …
Category: Health and Wellness Matters
Inner Strength and The Spirit of Victory
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." ~ Marcus Aurelius My eighteen year old cousin, Savannah Leigh Burns, was recently diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). Its onset was rather sudden and took Savannah and her family completely by surprise. The first two weeks in …
A busy life
"You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again." ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762 Having had a chance to spend the entire day with my …
A Change in Tactics
An article in the recent Equus magazine entitled "The Deworming Revolution: A Change in Tactics" fascinated me as much for its implications to the horse world as for its similarity to the the challenge we face with the overuse of antibiotics in human medicine (for an intro to the MRSA dilemma see my post "Know …
Mind moves matter, if you let it.
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." ~ Marcus Aurelius The practice of yoga is more challenging - and more rewarding - than it looks. One of the lessons I took home with my shaky legs and becalmed mind was that your mind can stand …
Pathological Disbelief and Intellectual Terror
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." ~ Isaac Asimov One of the great obstacles to progress in scientific understanding was well described by Nobel Prize-winning Cambridge emeritus professor Brian Josephson as "pathological disbelief." Josephson used the term …
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How to Put an End to our Nation’s Health Crisis
The other day someone mentioned to me that America's health crisis could be largely resolved if people would avoid everything in the middle of the grocery store and only buy items currently on the outer walls. I had to think about the statement for a moment, but once the picture of the last grocery store …
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Time’s a tickin’!
A friend forwarded a fantastic link to me the other day and I thought you would enjoy it as you think about how to handle the remaining weeks you have to live. The average person in the Western world now lives to the ripe old age of roughly 75 years in a body that properly …
The Powerhouse of the Cell
I love to hear the head of my Practitioner Support team (the group in my company responsible for technical marketing and education) speak about health and wellbeing. Her passionate interest in restoring normal flow to the body's various systems fascinates me - and our clients - to no end. Restoring optimal cellular function …
Seeing is believing.
Vision is a powerful sense. Whether the capacity for vision is the product of thousands of years of evolutionary development or the result of an original design modified over time by the aforementioned invisible hand, vision is a marvelously powerful tool. While roughly 0.3% of the American public is legally blind, I have heard it said …
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