I am happy to report that my back/hip is doing a little better. I have a pretty good idea of what is causing my discomfort; I’ve been stretching some tight muscles – which is good thing, but while things are loosening up, it feels - temporarily, at least – worse. And when your back hurts it affects everything that you do from that point on. You can put a broken arm in a sling. You can’t put your back in a sling and...

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It is the mark of an affluent society to have so many choices on what to eat, and the leisure to consider it at length. At times the choices can seem overwhelming and the concept of eating well means different things to different people. It can be taken to mean gourmet food or the slow food revolution; it can mean eating to promote health  and the idea of food as medicine. Another way of looking at eating well is making choices that...

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I was having a conversation with one of my Nia students this week, about the activities we’d done in our pasts – reminiscing about the athletes we were in our younger days. Then I said, “I thought I was done”. I thought I would never become an athlete again. Well, I was wrong – I wasn’t done. What began as a way to ‘stay in shape’ has instead shaped me, changed me, cell by cell. I found a path I...

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It turns out Mom was right when she told me to get my head out of my book and go outside to play in the sun. Most of us associate low Vitamin D levels with depression but there is so much more to the story. When I found out my blood glucose levels were high, my Vitamin D levels were, at the same time ‘insufficient’. That got me curious and I began to do some research. It turns out there is indeed a link between low Vitamin D...

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“I’m out of my element.” When was the last time you said or heard this expression? Have ever really considered what that means? In the study of Feng Shui, being out of your element could well indicate imbalance and disharmony in some or several aspects of your life (e.g., with your health, relationships or career). So consider, are you in your Element? That is, are you aware of your strongest personality traits, and are you...

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I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the...

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