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WELLNESS | Test Your Eyesight, Read the Fine Print (Plus, a Giveaway)
Posted on March 20, 2013 | No CommentsThe following is an excerpt from Vision for Life: Ten Steps to Natural Eyesight Improvement by Meir Schneider. Check out the end of this article for a chance to win... -
WELLNESS | Tired of False Fitness Theories?
Posted on November 16, 2011 | 1 CommentOri Hofmekler says: Our common approach to fitness has been failing miserably. Most people attempt to get “less fat” or “less unfit” rather than lean and fit. Most aim at... -
Doctors are More Harmful Than Germs
Posted on May 19, 2011 | No CommentsThink back to the last time you had a headache—temples pounding, head throbbing, and shooting pains throughout your brain. Now think again about how quickly all that agony evaporated with... -
Grow Your Own Food: Sprouts
Posted on February 8, 2011 | 36 CommentsIn Rawlicious: Delicious Raw Recipes for Radiant Health, Peter and Beryn Daniel, two former bread-and-butter chefs turned raw, show that you don’t have to forsake flavor or flair to enjoy... -
Greens: A New Food Group – Victoria Boutenko Weighs In
Posted on January 5, 2011 | No CommentsShould greens make up their own food group? Is it deceptive to classify greens as “vegetables?” Raw food pioneer Victoria Boutenko offers her ideas on how to ensure greens receive proper attention as the most essential part of human nutrition. -
Peter A. Levine’s Magnum Opus
Posted on October 29, 2010 | No CommentsAn estimated five million people suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder in the U.S. alone, and the number continues to rise as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue. In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, by best-selling author Peter A. Levine, explores the interconnections between neuroscience and the emerging field of body-oriented psychotherapy, and explains that trauma is not a disease or a disorder, but rather an injury caused by fright, helplessness, and loss that can be healed by engaging our innate capacity to self-regulate high states of arousal and intense emotions. -
Practice Presence Meditation!
Posted on August 16, 2010 | 4 CommentsCheck out Presence Meditation: The Practice of Life Awareness, by Jens-Erik Risom, a step-by-step guide to achieving self-awareness through the art of meditation. Risom gently, yet directly, guides readers through all the steps necessary for effective meditation with objective goals and simple exercises. In the following excerpt, Risom describes the four introductions to meditation: rootedness, attention to breathing, fullness of feeling, and witness awareness. -
The Great Bay: The Fall of Civilization with the Rising Sea
Posted on July 26, 2010 | No CommentsIn his new book, The Great Bay: Chronicles of Collapse, author Dale Pendell has created a future that is alternately frightening and inspiring. Imagine for a moment that a global... -
New on the Bookshelf: Undines
Posted on July 14, 2010 | No CommentsAt Lumahai Beach near the Na Pali coast on Kauai, again I call, and Istiphul appears. She says to me, “I would steal the sorrow from your heart with a kiss.” Then Istiphul kisses me, and I enter a dream. I hear my heart beating and another heartbeat as well, that of the whole ocean beating in rhythm to my own. And though our lips touch but for a moment, in truth she kisses my body all over a thousand times, with a thousand kisses from a thousand goddesses. -
When Mother Nature Meets Walt Whitman
Posted on June 23, 2010 | 2 CommentsWithin the past two centuries Walt Whitman has become one of the United States’ most celebrated poets. The elegance and depth of his writing often seemed to contrast with the...
