Are you using the summer months to improve your health or are you wasting the best period of the year entirely? Unlike the moody spring or the chilly autumn, the summer months offer the best opportunities to go out and enjoy life on a daily basis. Besides enjoyment, leaving the apartment can also greatly aid your health by lowering blood pressure, heart rate, the risk of heart disease and the
All sorts of fine arts have been used as excellent tools for stress relieve for many years now. The healing properties of colors have been studied and proven, and many psychologists tend to recommend the usage of coloring pages or mandala coloring as a technique for relaxation, stress relief, and even meditation. Many of us had forgotten the awesome feeling we had when we were children when coloring was our
Are you looking for ways to relax and take a short break? Everyone serves to benefit from a little more relaxation. The only problem is that we live in a fast-paced world, and relaxing generally requires time we don’t have. If you can pencil in a few five-minute breaks throughout the day where you can stop what you’re doing and focus on something else, you’ll find that your stress levels
Relaxation techniques can really help you with your everyday stress. Our schedules have become a series of running from one task or activity to the next. Demands on our time are really quite outrageous! We do not get enough sleep; we are inhaling caffeine and energy drinks to keep our energy levels up; and we are downing fast food as if it were our only option and eating it in our
With everyday stresses putting pressure on all of our lives, it sometimes becomes hard to feel motivated and with the weight of the world on your shoulders, you may become unhappy with your life. Meditation and Mindfulness are two approaches that are generally associated with relaxation and appreciating the world around you. However, they can also be used as a part of everyday life to improve our mindset and the
Unfortunately, we are in the day and age where more people, usually children, are being diagnosed with ADHD. Let's talk about natural remedies for ADHD. ADHD stands for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. With the ever rising diagnoses comes more medication prescriptions. According to the CDC, 11% of children were diagnosed with ADHD in 2011. From 2003 to 2011 there was a 5% increase in diagnoses each year. Rightfully, many parents
While many are picking up expensive gym memberships, and enrolling at name brand studios to get started on their new years resolution, here’s a tip, you don’t have to! Yoga is an incredibly beneficial exercise for your winter tune up. No matter your age, ailments, or previous health issues, yoga can help you becoming fit without breaking your bank (or touching it at all) and is something you can do
Aching Feet? One of the runners I coach had been experiencing foot soreness following long runs. If you’re an avid runner, walker, or other athlete who spends a lot of time on their feet, you have probably experienced sore, tired, achy feet, and know it’s not fun. Our feet are complicated – a human foot is made up of 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments, 19 muscles and tendons. The
The pace of our culture is increasing at an astonishing rate. While this speed certainly has its benefits and conveniences for our outer lives, they come at a great cost to our inner world. For as all of the wisdom traditions teach, well-being can only be cultivated when you take time every day to slow down and turn inward. So as fabulous as it is to click a few buttons
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