Most people who make New Year’s resolutions tend to emphasize their health – whether physical or mental. Some accomplish this through improved diet and exercise habits, others aim to go back to school or finding cheaper, more self-directed routes towards education and self-improvement. In order to cut back on stress and nurture healthy, positive habits, [...]
Categories: FEATURED ARTICLES, HAPPINESS, HEALTH, PRODUCTIVITY, SIMPLICITY
Tagged: HAPPINESS, HEALTH, healthier new year, healthy new year, joy, life, new years, new years resolution, physical therapy, resolution
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- February 8, 2010 – 11:55 am
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- By richard
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You may think your attentive spouse, your loving children and good friends are affecting your happiness. But what if there is some deeper magic at work in your life?
According to a new study published last month in the British Medical Journal, the people they are connected with make you happy as [...]
Categories: FAMILY, FEATURED ARTICLES, HAPPINESS, HEALTH, PRODUCTIVITY
Tagged: all one, brad barton, degrees of separation, HAPPINESS, interpersonal ties, power, ripple, social networks
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- October 12, 2009 – 11:12 pm
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- By richard
Our inner world — emotional, mental space — helps determine our outer world, right? But the space we spend the majority of our time in also plays a huge role in our lives. It can influence our actions, our mood, and it can determine whether we remain stuck or achieve our dreams.
I want to share [...]
Categories: HAPPINESS, HEALTH, PRODUCTIVITY, ZEN PEACE
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- June 24, 2009 – 10:43 pm
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- By richard
Health and fitness are usually made to seem too complex.
If you read a lot of fitness magazines and blogs (as I often do), you’re told a confusing variety of complex advice. It makes your head spin.
You’re told that eggs, butter and meat are bad for you. Then another crowd will tell you those same things [...]
Categories: HEALTH
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- June 24, 2009 – 10:18 pm
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- By richard
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I’ve been exercising regularly for a few years, with tremendous improvements in my health, and whenever someone asks me how they should start out in exercise, I tell them to just get moving!
Categories: HEALTH
Tagged: Fitness, HEALTH, Physical exercise, Yoga
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- March 3, 2009 – 11:45 pm
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- By richard
I have to admit that I have my ups and downs with the exercise habit.
So I know that it’s not the easiest habit for most people, and most people’s experiences consist of starting and stopping and starting again. Which is fine — don’t beat yourself up about it. The important thing is starting again.
The Main [...]
Categories: FEATURED ARTICLES, HEALTH
Tagged: goals, HEALTH, healthy, Motivation, motivator, Physical exercise, strength, work, working out
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- December 16, 2008 – 10:51 am
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- By richard
Los Angeles – Feeling desperate and hopeless after spending eight days in the hospital related to multiple sclerosis, 35-year-old Cami Walker, decided to take an odd “prescription” from an African medicine woman. The remedy? Give away one thing each day for 29 days.
“I thought the suggestion was crazy at first, but decided it wasn’t going [...]
Categories: HEALTH
Tagged: giving healthy, healthiness, live happily
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- November 28, 2008 – 1:26 am
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- By richard
If you’re like me, you can eat healthy much of the time, exercise a lot, and still find your fat-burning efforts at a plateau.
It seems easier to lose the first 30 pounds than the last bit of fat around your middle.
Categories: FEATURED ARTICLES, HAPPINESS, HEALTH
Tagged: burn fat, meditate exercise, motivate yourself, Physical exercise, Weight, Weight loss
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- November 13, 2008 – 12:46 am
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- By richard
Nature-deficit disorder, as coined in Richard Louv’s book, Last Child in the Woods, is when children lose their connection to the natural world due to lack of free, outdoor time. According to the famous biologist, E.O. Wilson, it’s the soccer moms that are killing off bio-education, by taking their kids to all sorts of organized [...]
Categories: HEALTH
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- November 5, 2008 – 6:48 pm
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- By richard
Four ways to recharge your energy while you’re changing the world. When you think of someone standing up to battle the status quo, you probably envision a lonely individual facing insurmountable odds. After all, in films like Norma Rae, Erin Brockovich and To Kill a Mockingbird, the passionate change-maker is usually teetering on the edge [...]
Categories: HEALTH
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- October 15, 2008 – 10:37 am
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- By richard