Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy by Dawson Church – March 22, 2022 I am currently reading Bliss Brain by science writer Dawson Church. He includes research that he and others have conducted on brain plasticity and meditation. Dawson describes in detail how meditation affects different parts of the brain. His book includes directions on rapidly reaching Bliss Brain using his developed method, EcoMeditation. What interested me about the meditations and why they… Read more »
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Two books to check out.
For this post, I want to discuss two books. One was wonderful, and the other I am not so keen on, but both are worth reading. Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs: How Surgery Can Be Hazardous to Your Health – And What to Do About It by Harvey Bigelsen M.D. published March 15, 2011. In this first book. Dr. Harvey Bigelsen describes how medical doctors overprescribe surgery and ignore the long-term health risks.… Read more »
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The Secret Intelligence of Water
“Water is a great teacher that shows us how to move through the world with grace, ease, determination, and humility.” The Daily OM: A great teacher Dear Friends, I am writing a book about water. I find that it’s just like when you buy a new car, you never notice how popular your new car is until you walk out the door owning it. Now that I am writing this book, I am finding all sorts of interesting experiences, writings,… Read more »
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Breath – the New Science of a Lost Art
Did you know mouth breathing changes your whole body for the worse? Those are the findings in James Nestor’s bestselling book Breath – The New Science of a Lost Art. The book is full of scientific reasons to make breathing correctly a priority in your life. He talks about how chronic insomnia is a breathing problem and how the lungs regulate your weight. Fascinating. As a child, James had problems breathing through his nose, so he was a mouth breather.… Read more »
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Relieve Pain Naturally
We’re into the New Year and it’s time to get your energy flowing throughout your body to relieve your pain naturally. When you’re receiving bioenergy healing treatments, we may focus on your liver, a cancer spot, or your brain – but your whole being finds relief from pain and anxiety. That’s the beauty of energy treatments — we work with your whole body getting it back into balance to heal itself. Pain and dis-ease occur when your body,… Read more »
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Long distance healing
A time for healing while sheltering at home By now I know you understand that I read a lot of books, articles, and follow some social media. On social media I share postings on people doing good things in the world and the magic of nature – and trees being my favorite subject. With books and articles, I focus on learning to improve my ability to help others. There are some people I follow, and other authors I discover because… Read more »
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Take a fresh breath; and now jump into an ice bath
Wim Hof It was through my daughter, Tanya, that I first learned about Wim Hof. She suggested I listen to his podcast. I did and became intrigued. The Iceman Known as the “Iceman,” Wim Hof has done many way-out things in the cold: he climbed Kilimanjaro twice in a pair of shorts, ran a marathon north of the Arctic Circle in shorts, swam under a frozen lake in shorts (ok, probably a bathing suit), and he takes frequent ice baths.… Read more »
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NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE 2021
Happy New Year! These three words — Happy New Year — are full of new possibilities as we venture into the unknown world of 2021. My hope is that we all embrace it with an open heart. The world is in a state of amazing upheaval. None of us has ever experienced anything like this before on such a grand scale. Times like this can be the impetus for change – let’s make this happen! 2021 could be the year… Read more »
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Free download: Your Gratitude Journal
Beginning today, I encourage you to write down things you are grateful to have in your life. Your list can be as simple or as complicated as you like. There are no rules except to have gratitude every day of your life. Plus, research shows that we need to write down at least one thing you feel grateful for every week. Aim for three times per week. Your Gratitude Journal To get you started, we’ve designed three PDFs for you… Read more »
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Book Review: Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants By Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions (October 15, 2013) What a wonderful find! In Braiding Sweetgrass the author, Robin Wall Kimmerer, unites science and spirituality into a beautiful tapestry showing us our need for both science and spirit to survive on this earth — and for the Earth to survive us. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist and a professor of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University… Read more »