Dalai Lama is optimistic about the future of humanity after witnessing the global outpouring of support following disasters such as the Haiti earthquake. This kind of positive response to disasters, His Holiness said in a public lecture followed by three days of teachings in New York last week, would have been impossible only at the beginning of the [...]
An individualized yoga program can produce large reductions in blood pressure when added to optimal medical therapy. Results were reported even among patients who might never set foot in a yoga studio, in an ambitious randomized trial testing of two somewhat unconventional add-on components as part of an integrated cardiac-rehabilitation program in Germany. The secret [...]
And then all of a sudden, it reveals itself that happiness can only be achieved by connecting with the world. I would like to share my experience with this. You casee the beauty sink in once you take the time. Then all of a sudden it becomes easy for the brain to weigh emotion and [...]
Top blogs of young entrepreneurs spearhead social renewal in their own image and the blogosphere is now abuzz with possibility for all of us. Untemplater, which launched earlier this year, is founded by a handful of twenty-somethings offering in-the-trenches guidance on lifestyle design and location independence for those of us who want to “live an [...]
While all of us would like to live more consciously, the reality is that we spend most of our time living, well, somewhat mindlessly. Perhaps, at some point in our lives we made life decisions 9or someone else made them for us) that we’re still acting upon, even though we, or the conditions in and around [...]
By Jasmine Jafferali What is “wellness” per se? There are many definitions, and 20 years ago, wellness didn’t exist. But today, the industry is growing fast, and the term “wellness” is being overused, abused and it is not being used in its appropriate context. Wellness is achieving one’s full potential; it is self-directed and an [...]
By Michael Logan One on my favorite stress management exercises is to ask my counseling and anger management clients to imagine themselves getting up from a really good nights sleep, and to note how refreshed they feel as they pull the covers off, and move their body toward the next right thing to do. We [...]
By Sheldon Kardener What constitutes the contemporary family? How does the stability of the contemporary family bear upon the health of its members? What is the familys present condition? How did it get that way? What should it be? What can we do to make it what we would like it to be? A family [...]
Money is the solution to all your problems. If only you had a million dollars – life would be bearable, interesting, enjoyable, maybe exhilarating. With every waking breadth you concede money, money, money is the answer to your prayers. Well is it? As the concept of money evolved over the millennia – substituting agreements of [...]