How speed = stress In his latest book, In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed, Canadian journalist Carl Honore touts the benefits of slow living. Honore claims that the old paradigm “time is money” is being replaced by the “slow movement” model. Slow living produces more pleasure and better health. The slow city movement is [...]

It’s inevitable. Like death and taxes. Back pain. Second to colds, the most likely reason you’ll visit a healthcare provider will be back pain. Fifty percent of Americans report back pain each year. Are you in pain right now? Is your movement limited? Are you reducing your activities because of the pain or the fear of the [...]

ADHD has become a veritable plague on our children. Some attribute the rise in the incidence of this condition to us simply being more aware of what always existed. Mike Adams contends that the cause of ADHD is diet. Others argue that this syndrome is only a creation of professionals and drug companies. Many are [...]

When you avoid a feeling, you may experience physical or psychological pain. This mind/body connection is a cornerstone of alternative medicine, and it seems that mainstream medicine is finally catching on. A recent New York Times article reports on the growing acceptance of Mindfulness as a valid therapy approach. The Times article points out something [...]

If you stress out about being deathly ill, you may want to read this post. Most aches and pains are just that – aches and pains. Yet, there are times when those pains are telling us something. Us macho men are the worst at avoiding our bodies signals. This blog post gives you 7 pains you [...]

Jon Kabat-Zinn Ph. D., the man you essentially created mindfulness stress reduction teaches Google about how to be mindful. This video is an excellent, simple instruction on how to use the power of mindfulness. If you are not familiar with mindfulness, use this video to be your introduction. Enjoy.

You thought it was bad before, but it’s getting worse. According to a new American Psychological Association (APA) study, a third of us are experiencing extreme stress: “nearly half [of Americans] believe stress is damaging their health, their relationships, and work productivity, and that it has got worse in the last [...]

There are two simple ways to have a more productive and happier life. 1. Take the controllable stressors out of your life 2. Eat the foods that are right for your body I said simple–not necessarily easy. Let’s look at the first one: I have managed to eliminate or certainly get to manageable levels, the source of most stress [...]

These are two questions that are often asked by those experiencing the effects of either. We live in a culture that likes to label every thing. Medicine can’t treat a problem unless it is a diagnosable disease. If it not a disease, it is not real.  Accused of being a quack, the physician Hans Steles who [...]

Create a powerful life using your ancestral archetypes You want to decrease your stress – align yourself with your instinctual self. The psychologist Carl Jung over a hundred years ago directed us towards parts of ourselves that are our psychological DNA. Joseph Campbell picked up Jung’s work to lay out how throughout [...]