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Change is difficult, but only if we think that we are depriving ourselves. Changing our outlooks is perhaps the most important change we can make. By engaging in a building process rather than an exercise in deprivation, lifestyle modification is not a punishment; it becomes your passion. This is the ultimate Healthful Evolution.  As weContinue reading “A Life of Gratitude”

Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food” –Hippocrates Diet is perhaps the most contentious issue when it comes to our health. People do not want to give up their food despite the fact that it might be killing them. This is perhaps the best example of HabitEnergy I can think of.Continue reading “Creating Healthy Eating Habits”

“Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.” “Constant practice alone is the secret of success.” –Hatha Yoga Pradipka In its original form, the practice of yoga may at first seem out of reach for most of us; its teachings continue to be relevant today, however, as we enter thisContinue reading ““SitStandStroll” Yoga”

EXERCISE Begin standing, being careful not to use the muscles in your face and neck. Inhale while tightening the muscles around your ankles, your calves, and then your thighs, sequentially engaging the legs from your feet to your hips. Maintaining the engagement in your legs, tighten the muscles around your low back, your middle back,Continue reading “Learning to Breathe: In Practice”

“For breath in life, and if you breathe well you will live long on Earth.” –Sanskrit Proverb How we breathe determines how we experience the world. The breath nutrifies, detoxifies, affects every cell in our bodies, thereby governing how we feel, age, and deal with illness. The breath is literally everything. It’s said that youContinue reading “Learning to Breathe”

“We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be drowned out by the chatter of the mind and the pressure of day-to-day events. But if we quiet down the mind, we can begin to hear what were not payingContinue reading “Heart Disease Demystified”

“Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.” –Charles Simmons The word disease is two syllables, dis-meaning bad, and ease. So, disease does not really mean unhealthy; it means out of ease, or out of balance. If you truly understand the principles of disease, you can then act as an expertContinue reading “What is Disease?”

“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit.” –B.K.S. Iyengar In 1946, The World Health Organization took the bold step of offering a broad definition of health, describing it as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” It surprisesContinue reading “What is Health?”

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” –Winston Churchill  “Thoughts become things. Choose the good ones.” —Mike Dooley In a holistic healing model, it is clearly understood that our mental and emotional outlooks are important components to our overall health and well-being. A healthy attitude is a critical component to the healingContinue reading “A Healthy Attitude”

“A holistic approach is a recognition of the homogeneity and wholeness of life.  Life is not fragmented; it is not divided.  It cannot be divided into spiritual and material, individual and collective.  We cannot create compartments in life: political, economic, social, environmental.  Whatever we do or don’t do affects and touches the wholeness.  The homogeneity. We are forever organically relatedContinue reading “A Holistic Approach”