By Bivás Biswas The general idea about people living in big cities is that they’re mean, they don’t care, they aren’t as compassionate. They don’t have time for other people. They’re full of themselves and are superficial. Many adjectives! I spent my early childhood in Calcutta, one of the largest cities in India, and I [...]
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Why Sitting is Killing Us and What to Do About It
Did you know that most of us are sit 9.4 hours a day during the work week? Compare that to the 7.7 hours we spend sleeping, or the 30 minutes to an hour we may spend exercising daily, and the imbalance starts to become clearly apparent. It’s easy to recognize the correlation between sitting and [...]
Self-Love and Time on the Path to Addiction Recovery
If you have ever tried to make a behavioral change you know how difficult it may be. Perhaps you have tried to quit smoking, cut out that soda or avoid that dessert. The biggest thing that people forget is that all addictions are not simply and only behavioral; they also have a psychological and physiological [...]
A Metaphor for Healing: The Vulture and the Honeybee
By Gloria Loring I love when I am gifted with a metaphor that helps me toward a more peaceful mind. I have three books that offer uplifting ideas each morning, and the other day Sri Swami Satchidananda’s book got my attention with his words about the vulture and the honeybee. He noted that the vulture [...]
When Your Friends Have Cancer and You’re Healthy
Every day without fail, I find something to be grateful for. Consciously grateful. Some days it is a search. Some days it feels like making something out of nothing as I try to piece together a grateful state of being. Ironically, other days I have so much gratitude I can barely contain myself, bursting with [...]
Vast
Mission: Breakthrough. The intriguing name of the six week yoga challenge at the studio I teach at In Fort Worth, Texas. Each week being a different spiritual theme, this upcoming week is a focus on life itself. Broad? Yes. Scary? Possibly. Freeing? Most definitely. As I think about what message I want to spread to [...]
Are You A Thinker?
I Think, Therefore I Am. When I have a problem, I think about it. I imagine it from every angle. The pros and the cons. The yes and the no. Sometimes that’s really helpful. It guides me to make good decisions. But sometimes, I think too much about the same thing, over and over. Have [...]
Surprising News About Your Food
I’ve done lots of things to defizzle my stress. Sometimes, I play music or go for a run or meditate. Now I’ve got a new strategy to throw into the mix. Eating. I know. You’re probably thinking that’s a bad idea. Everyone knows about stress-eating. We crave cupcakes and potato chips and food with good [...]
How to Look Young for Life
Ever wonder if your healthy habits will really pay off? Ever think that a lot of what we hear from the press and media, moreover science, is just a lot of hoopla? Ever look in the mirror and wonder if you weren’t healthy, if you would look any different? As we get older, we become [...]
5 Ways to Free Yourself
Like many of you, I recently headed to the movie theater to see Quentin Tarantino’s latest brainchild, Django Unchained. If you haven’t seen it, the film involves a slave, played by Jamie Foxx, who is freed to serve a … lofty purpose. In my opinion, the movie was exhilarating (although I will admit my only [...]
