Top 10 Ayurvedic Balancing Tips for Vata Season
Anxiety is common this time of year, as is difficulty concentrating, restlessness and insomnia. Be careful this season with allowing the wind to blow you toward extremes
Health & Wellness articles:
DIY Sun Protection with No Harmful Chemicals
It’s the middle of summer and you’re probably trying to savor every single beach day. But even without full-on bathing-suit exposure, any time you’re outside of a building, including in your car, you’re vulnerable to sun damage. Are you safely protecting your skin from all of this UV radiation exposure?
Why We Get Cancer
I don’t doubt that miracles happen among cancer patients. I’m one of them. But I find it hard to believe anyone would bypass chemo and surgery for affirmations or crystals or mangosteen.
How Earthing Gets You Grounded
“The ground under your feet may actually be the single most-powerful medicine on the planet,” he suggests, “because of Mother Earth’s natural endowment of ‘electric nutrition,’ a virtually limitless supply of free electrons that give the ground we walk on its negative electric charge.”
Music Review: Medicina
In this deeply revealing work, with its pulsating fusion of South American beats—samba, cumbia, passionate vocals and electronica flourishes—Iemanjo leads us on a musical exploration of the healing properties of nature and its relationship to humankind.
Unseen Miracles of Healing
When we are physically ill or out of balance, western medicine addresses the body with a standard protocol of solutions. Tested methods of physical therapy, such as chiropractic, massage and acupuncture, can also be extremely useful, but there are other modalities that elude scientific research and go a step beyond.
Getting Creative When Life’s a Pain
Whether it’s painting, singing or writing, a growing number of people suffering from chronic pain—who total an estimated 100 million adults—are using the creative arts as a form of therapy. Medical authorities say different forms of creative expression can offer fulfillment and relief.
Trees I’ve Loved
Early each morning before anyone else was awake, I swam out to the wooden raft, ditched my bikini and floated on my back, gazing at the trees encircling the lake. Never had I felt so free and nurtured—the warmer surface water hugging my bare body and the crystalline sky and green treetops saturating my eyes and spirit.
Nurtured Kids Grow Bigger Brains
Scans revealed that the mentally healthy children who had nurturing mothers had nearly a 10 percent larger hippocampus.
Film Review—Love Thy Nature
As the new film Love Thy Nature points out, we are really participants in the natural world, but are out of alignment with the innate tendency of life to create conditions conducive to life.