Don’t Add To Your Troubles
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In times like this, you need to keep your head—even if all around you are panicking
The world is an unfriendly place right now, and there are many of us who are worried and dismayed at the effect if has [...]
The Importance of Trust
Trust is fundamental to life. If you cannot trust in anything, life becomes intolerable
You can’t have relationships without trust, let alone good ones. Intimacy depends on it. I suspect more marriages are wrecked by lack of trust than by actual infidelity. The partner who can’t trust the other not to betray him or her will [...]
Don’t Like the Way You Look?
Slowing down to gain awareness of your body
Why does it matter whether you take much note of how your body feels? Perhaps because if you ignore it, you’ll find that over time you get into bad habits.
You skip meals that will give you the energy you need to complete your daily tasks. You listen [...]
Nature’s Anti-Depressants Are Always On Hand
How to make yourself feel better without pills
I found two interesting articles last week. One on May 28th — about balancing your moods naturally. The other on May 27th — about giving placebo pills to children. Both articles suggest ways in which we can use substances to help us to feel better. We may go [...]
Is it really bad (or good) for you?
Chocolate used to be an absolute “no-no;” now it’s a health food. So what really is the truth about what we eat? Maybe you should slow down and think about that.
Cocoa beans, the source of chocolate (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
I���ve just been reading the latest edition of the AARP Bulletin. There’s a page in [...]
Why going to bed might save your life
Long-term study shows too little sleep can kill
A 17-year British study, cover 10,000 people, has shown that people who cut their sleep to five hours per night, or less, increase their risk of death from all causes by a factor of 1.7—and more than double their risk of dying from diseases of the heart.
These results [...]
Feeling tired? Maybe that’s not necessary
Ideas to build energy and avoid actions that drain your vitality
According to WebMD, you may never need to feel tired again. I suspect that’s overstating it, but they certainly suggest a slew of ideas for avoiding unnecessary drains on your energy in a recent article (Your Guide to Never Feeling Tired Again).
Beginning with ways to [...]
Slow down . . . don’t eat so fast
The benefits of slow eating are greater than you think
One day each week, I do volunteer work with a local non-profit organization. That means I get to sit in the staff room and eat my lunch along with the other folk.
As a matter of idle curiosity, I began to check how long they took, on [...]
Getting a good night’s rest
Unconventional, medication-free ideas to combat insomnia
Sleep-deprivation is both a major contributor to stress and almost an epidemic amongst some groups of people.
While pharmaceutical companies spend millions trying to convince you that the only way to deal with insomnia is to pop their pills, there are many other ways to help yourself into a [...]
Stress may make you infertile
Chronic stress may adversely affect fertility and birth, as well as increasing heart problems and impairing your immune system
An article that was somewhat tucked away in the “Science Times” section of the New York Times for September 4th, 2007, has some important findings that show the pervasive effect of chronic stress.
Research by Dr. Sarah L. [...]
