Loving Yourself From the Inside
This is one the biggest and most beautiful secrets about yoga for both beginners and devotees. Yoga helps you slow down from everyday life. It is a form of reset and rest which gives us a chance refresh our brains from overload. Practicing difficult postures and learning to breathe while in them gives us mental…
I would like to be as healthy as I can. I have had done a lot of exploration of the many yoga systems to help my health. I want to learn how to be healthy so I try to do my basics: good food, exercise, and breathing. I have to at least try to run,…
Most of my life I have been split into two pieces–what I wanted and what I knew I should do. Thing is..the third choice was usually the best answer to my stress. The third choice comes after I have had a chance to think. I have done many awkward and goofball things in my life…
At one time in my life I ate a lot of oranges, coconut, and chocolate. I was in Costa Rica on an extended vacation. Breakfast was simple: rice and beans with fresh fruit if we had it. However… if you can pick a fresh chocolate pod, and do all the work that it takes to…
If you want a plant to grow in your garden, it helps if you understand your plant’s nutritional needs so they can thrive and be healthy. Years of gardening has taught me that plants have specific needs and so do the bacteria in my gut. I want a healthy garden in my gut. I have…
I used to teach a class in grounding. There were a number of practices we used but the first one was getting in touch with your anger. We beat pillows and screamed into them–shouting all the burdens we carried and what we were mad about in our lives. There is a secret problem with getting…
I don’t have a perfect solution. I have a story. I am old and fat, and happy. I have wasted a lot of my life on trying to lose weight. I finally decided that the weight I was was OK. I eaten healthy all my life, I exercised every day not to lose weight, but…
Back pain…it happens to the best of people. Life is good, but because I have been very active throughout all my life, I do have a some injuries and I have back pain. In order for me to thrive I keep moving. I stretch, walk, and go on long nature walks. I rest when I…
All my life I have worked hard to excel. It is in my DNA. And I often fail. Sometimes I succeed. At the end of the year, I do a reckoning, and no matter how others think I did, I had to see what with an unjaundiced eye what I, me, and myself actually accomplished.…
The hardest thing I have ever done is to learn is what to do when I feel split in my nervous system (spine and gut). It didn’t make sense until I found out I actually had two brains, one was ancient and one was new. They are connected, but the ancient one acts by itself…