Resting Prevents Disease

Resting Prevents Disease We feel as if we should always be busy doing something so we don’t get labelled as lazy. But resting is the exact thing you need to do in order to have a burst of energy and keep your motor running. This past weekend I went to float in the mineral pools… Continue reading Resting Prevents Disease

Optimizing Yourself – Week 13 – Nurturing Your Body Each Day in a BIG Way

For this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, I am going to nurture my body each day. Feeling your breath going in and out is the easiest way to connect with your body. Focusing on breath makes you present, and rids your mind of obsessive thinking, as your thoughts transfer into your body. This creates peace and… Continue reading Optimizing Yourself – Week 13 – Nurturing Your Body Each Day in a BIG Way

Happy New Year 2014! – 52 Weeks to Optimizing Yourself – Week One

The next 52 weeks are filled with promise. A new year’s resolution is a promise to yourself, to start doing something you want to do, or stop doing something you don’t want to do. With a positive attitude and a sense of well-being, I hope you will have a year of optimizing yourself. A year… Continue reading Happy New Year 2014! – 52 Weeks to Optimizing Yourself – Week One

Winter Needs Christmas

Many people are not religious, but they still love Christmas. Christmas has become more secular, and more spiritual. In those parts of the world where winter is cold, Christmas warms our bodies and souls from the inside out. Christmas is a time of expansion – we eat too much, spend too much, drink too much,… Continue reading Winter Needs Christmas

Make Me a Channel of Your Peace

Songs from our youth can remain in our hearts for life, like the soundtrack to our memories.  A hymn based on the prayer of Saint Francis Assisi, that I learned in cathecism at age 7,  has stuck in my mind ever since.  In 1967, Sebastian Temple adapted it to music, in a song titled: “Make… Continue reading Make Me a Channel of Your Peace