Most of us have heard of “the placebo effect”—the heal-inducing effect patients in clinical trials experience when they believe they’re getting a fancy new drug or surgery but are actually getting fake treatment. The placebo effect is real. It works about eighteen to eighty percent of the time, and it’s not just in your head—itContinue reading “The Nocebo Effect: How Negative Thoughts Can Harm Your Health”
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How to Build Self Confidence: 6 Essential and Timeless Tips
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” Helen Keller “Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.” Brian Tracy “Confidence is courage at ease.” Daniel Maher I believe that one of the most common wishes is simply to feel more confident in various situations inContinue reading “How to Build Self Confidence: 6 Essential and Timeless Tips”
MASSAGE MEDICINE:™ Healing Mind, Body & Spirit
Moving Through Life We’re busier than ever with longer workdays, less leisure time, shorter lunch hours, longer commutes, and more demands than ever before. We may even be in a job that doesn’t fulfill us, yet we spend most of our time there. When the day ends, we have almost no energy left to doContinue reading “MASSAGE MEDICINE:™ Healing Mind, Body & Spirit”
A Comprehensive Resource Guide for your Holistic Health & Wellness Journey
The information provided below is the most comprehensive resource that I have found to date to help you on your journey towards Holistic Health & Wellness. Namaste! 12 Universal Skills You Need to Succeed at Anything There are a lot of skills you don’t need. You can be happy and successful without knowing how toContinue reading “A Comprehensive Resource Guide for your Holistic Health & Wellness Journey”
Begin this year with your best self . . .
As we enter the first full week of 2013, let us do so without dragging our worries, fears and baggage from last year along with us. Instead, let us declare affirmatively that it is finally time to overcome those dreadful habits. The following link will provide you with some excellent tips to get you startedContinue reading “Begin this year with your best self . . .”
10 Lessons from 10 Quotes that Changed My Life
Today I want to share ten life lessons with you. I learned them when I was young by reading and re-reading some of my favorite books and quotes. And over the years I have validated each of them gradually with firsthand experience. Together these lessons have positively changed my way of thinking and my life. Continue reading “10 Lessons from 10 Quotes that Changed My Life”
Balancing Act – Easing Between Doing and Being
When I was swimming at the YMCA recently, I was approached by a teenaged lifeguard who knows I write books. She asked me for an inspirational quote to write on the blackboard for the people exercising there. This old proverb came to mind: “By standing still we overtake those who are running.” Dismayed, the teenContinue reading “Balancing Act – Easing Between Doing and Being”
Letting Go – Pain is Natural; Suffering is Optional
“If you let go a little you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.”1 — Ajahn Chah Many difficulties begin to fall away as we learn to loosen our grip on the perception ofContinue reading “Letting Go – Pain is Natural; Suffering is Optional”
Hara – Working From the Center
We recognize the importance of good beginnings and a solid ground. To ensure the best results, it is always worthwhile to establish a firm and developed foundation. Without deep, well-established roots, a plant is weak and growth will be stunted. In the human body, the hara is our home. Home is a reference point. OurContinue reading “Hara – Working From the Center”
15 Ways to Live, and Not Merely Exist
As Jack London once said, “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.” Far too often we travel through life on autopilot, going through the motions, accepting what is, and having every day pass like the one before it. Everything seems relatively normal and comfortable, except that constant twitch in the backContinue reading “15 Ways to Live, and Not Merely Exist”
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