Movement and exercise feel good, as you know if you’ve ever experienced a runner’s high, the restorative power of a pandemic afternoon walk, or a heart-pumping Zumba class. But what accounts for these benefits? The answer offered by science journalist Caroline Williams in Move!: The New Science of Body Over Mind is deeper and more provocative than…
Your Relationship With Your Alarm Clock
If you use an alarm clock to wake up in the morning, think about a relationship you’d like to create with your alarm clock. What would be the healthiest and happiest version of that relationship for you? If you were an alarm clock, what kind of relationship would you want to have with your human?…
Fix Your Posture With Calisthenics!
Our posture is very important. Beginning with working from home, or sitting in front of a computer for at least eight hours a day, or lowering your head to see your smartphone. In the following video we will go over some posture improving exercises to improve your posture and strengthening your lower back and neck…
Conscious Aging: Reframing for Health and Happiness
Maria Shriver, author, journalist and activist for healthy aging, recently spoke to Tami Simon about the Radically Reframing Aging Summit they are collaborating on to promote a balanced view of aging. Maria is the founder of Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM) which she established after her mother died of Alzheimer’s and following her awareness that two-thirds of people living with…
Negative Thinking: A Most Dangerous Addiction
Have you ever noticed how much time you spend thinking about negative or painful situations, ruminating and replaying what’s not working in your life? It’s not just you. The last statistic I read claimed 80 percent of our thoughts are negative, and 95 percent repetitive. Strangely, the more negative an experience, the more we return to it. Like…
Dementia on the Rise Worldwide: An Explainer and Research Roundup
The estimated number of people with dementia is expected to increase to 153 million by 2050 worldwide, compared with an estimated 57 million cases in 2019, according to recent projections published in The Lancet Public Health. In the U.S., dementia cases are expected to double to 10.5 million by 2050, up from 5.3 million in…
Finding Time for Your Soul
“We need to change the delusion that we need to burn out in order to succeed” —Arianna Huffington One of the biggest challenges to finding time for meditation—and balancing ourselves mentally, physically, and emotionally—is the burnout complex. Many of us feel the need and pressure to “operate at maximum capacity” from the time our eyes…
Harmonious Relationships Without a Shared Reality
James and Anna came to see me because of a big fight they were embroiled in. The issue was money, which I learned was something they had been arguing about for years, with no resolution. They had vastly different ideas and values around money, different narratives on its importance and meaning, and what it represented….
A Deeper, ‘Holistic’ Approach Needed to Treat Long Covid: Study, Doctor
According to a study in the British Medical Journal, dementia, memory loss, headaches, and fatigue may be symptoms caused by infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The pandemic has been going on for two years, and the medical community has now gained a better understanding of the sequelae of the COVID-19 disease. We spoke with Dr….
Pick Your Own Exercise Goals to Make Changes That Last
When people set their own exercise goals and then pursue them immediately, it’s more likely to result in positive lasting changes, according to a new study. The researchers made their findings among an underserved population at particularly high risk of having or developing heart conditions, making the work especially important. “Most behavior change programs involve…
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