Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Mira Rakicevic
Sleep paralysis is a type of REM parasomnia or abnormal behavior that takes place during the REM sleep cycle.
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- Written by: Dr. D. Richard Bellamy
Life begins with a first breath and ends with a last breath. Air contains the electricity that charges our vital capacitor with energy. Breathing, posture, physiology, and function are interrelated in expressing our vital potential energy. Energy is infinite and is universally available to the one with greater order. Higher-ordered breathing transforms and liberates energy. Disordered breathing stifles and imprisons energy.
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- Written by: Gregor Reid
Probiotics are live microorganisms, usually bacteria, that can be consumed to offer health benefits.
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- Written by: Christopher Hendon
A new approach can help you make the perfect shot of espresso, researchers report.
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- Written by: Anita Srivastava
While edibles may provide a delivery system that provides the intoxicating effects of cannabis while avoiding the risks of smoking, the delayed and variable absorption of cannabis edibles can result in over-consumption and unpredictable results.
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- Written by: John G. Keogh
The globalization of the food chain has resulted in increased complexity and diminished transparency and trust into how and where our foods are grown, harvested, processed and by whom.
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- Written by: Thomas Merritt
You’re reading this with a cup of coffee in your hand, aren’t you? Coffee is the most popular drink in many parts of the world.
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- Written by: Patricia L. Foster
In the last few months, schools all over the country have closed because of outbreaks of norovirus.
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- Written by: Barry S. Weinberg
As you continue to journey on a clear path to healing, it is very common for different feelings and emotions to arise. Old guilt, anger, and doubt may enter your mind and heart from out of nowhere. Likewise, new fear, anxiety, and sadness may develop if you see no end to the path before you.
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- Written by: Margherita T. Cantorna
Winter is upon us and so is the risk of vitamin D deficiency and infections.
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- Written by: Wayne Wilson
Reading in the back seat can make you feel sick because your eyes and ears are having an argument that your brain is trying to settle!
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- Written by: Katie Siek
Wearable fitness trackers have less accuracy when used in certain ways.
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- Written by: David King
We tend to notice mucus only when it’s abnormal and the sticky fluid is expelled from orifices.
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- Written by: Sean Beer
When it comes to finding a sustainable diet, there are many contradictions. A concept such as food miles can be helpful for figuring out the carbon emissions involved in bringing particular food items to your plate.
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- Written by: Lauren Walker
It is sometimes impossible to understand the path of your life, especially when it takes an unexpected turn toward illness, disease, trauma, or loss. You cast about for answers, build stories to explain your new life, and move forward as best you can.
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- Written by: Feng Qiushi
There’s an association between consistent and frequent tea-drinking and significantly fewer depression symptoms in Chinese older adults, according to new research.
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- Written by: Julie Parsonnet and Myroslava Protsiv
The average human body temperature in the United States has decreased over the past 157 years, researchers report.
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- Written by: Jon-Patrick Allem
There has been a lot of talk in the U.S. about legalizing recreational cannabis, and about cannabis’ potential to help with health issues.
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- Written by: Neel Shah
Americans still choose to give birth bed-bound, on their backs, with their knees up, legs spread, feet in the air.
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- Written by: Gabriel Filippelli
The Trump administration is working to weaken U.S. environmental regulations in many areas, from water and air pollution to energy development and land conservation.
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- Written by: Valerie Ann Worwood
Rooms can have a different atmosphere that cannot always be attributed to such things as decor, light, ceiling height, or even good or bad feng shui. Rooms also have an aroma that reflects all that is in, and goes on, there. Another factor is cleanliness. If a place does not feel conducive to good energy flow, it may simply need a good energy cleaning.
