Index of Health & Fitness

We all have bills to pay, laundry and dishes to wash, errands to run, and things to learn. So, even when you cut down the dizziness of modern life (from tweeting to gaming) in our lives to focus on your important goals, a lot still gets in the way. The important thing is to choose one main goal. Pick something you will love. Just one. Then commit to it and don`t get distracted by other shiny...  Read More

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It is easy to make healing ginger tea. Take 1 Cup of hot water 1/2 inch of ginger root thinly sliced 2 pods of cardamom 1 teaspoon of honey Mix all together, wait for 10 minutes and drink . You can drink it every 2 hours. Ginger clears the sinus and helps liver to remove toxins. Enjoy.  Read More

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Dosha? Most likely you never heard of it (unless you go to the Ayurveda doctor). Do I have one? And why should it keep me worried? In plain English Dosha is our constitution. At birth our DNA predisposes who we are, how we look and how we react – our constitution. Ayurveda recognizes three main constitutions or Doshas: Vata, Pitta and Kapha. When our constitution changes because of...  Read More

You will learn: What is Chakra? How each Chakra effects your mental and physical health? Why a good girl can not find a boyfriend? How your Chakra profile effects your job? Pr-requisition : None Fee : $30 Duration : 1 hour RSVP Instructor : rev. Marina Lando, MS, Reiki Master and Teacher, 1059 CRP Marina is a full-time professional holistic medicine practitioner. She studied...  Read More

You will learn: What is Ayurveda and why it is still in use by doctors after 5,000 years? Basic principles of Ayurveda How switching to a simple Ayurvedic lifestyle you can improve your health Energy principals of Ayurveda Pr-requisition : None Fee : $30 Duration : 1 hour RSVP Instructor : rev. Marina Lando, MS, Reiki Master and Teacher, 1059 CRP Marina is a full-time...  Read More

The other night, working in the Emergency Department, I was dog tired as I picked up the chart of a patient. After I obtained the pertinent medical information from them, I then asked my 94 year old patient, "Where were you during world war 2?" He proceeded to share a little known story about his time working with General Patton. The patient told me that even his own grandkids don't ask about or...  Read More

Do you remember the old cartoons that depicted an angel and a devil on each of your shoulders? Well it turns out that we have a Sage and Saboteur in our brains. The Saboteur is a "voice", or, thoughts and feelings that were adaptive in our early development and when we were being chased by Sabertooth tigers. It is an early warning "voice" that may say early on in our lives, "Don't even try to...  Read More

I was cool. I fit in. I had something to do with my hands. It tasted good after food. "If I could get someone to hold it, I would smoke in my sleep." These are reasons I chose to use cigarettes. The truth is I was addicted to nicotine and my body had a very tough time living without it. I can remember an evening where I had just got undressed to go to bed, and I realized I only had two or...  Read More

How many times have you wanted to go ahead move on an idea or share your view with colleagues, only to stop yourself because you were afraid of being ridiculed? Our fear of looking ridiculous can be one of the biggest things to hold us back in both our lives as well as our careers. Did you know that a huge, and I do mean staggering, number of people are afraid of public speaking more than they...  Read More

We had been in the car for around 4 hours and still had 4 or 5 to go until we got home. My girlfriend and I were in her car and had just attended a funeral of one of her family members. We lived in Charlotte, NC but this funeral had taken place in Chicago, Ill and we had driven. Having been on long car trips before I had packed snacks, crossword puzzles, music, and odd bits to keep us occupied. I...  Read More

Today’s GMA show began as a proliferation of puns but ended up with an interesting and insightful interview with Robert Lustig and the subject of “Taking on sugar.” This topic is a sleeping giant that should wake up the American family to a monster that’s invading our households. We know our children are more susceptible to obesity than ever before. We blame all kinds of factors both physical...  Read More

I was watching Good Morning America this morning. Katie Couric is a guest host all this week and my husband and I are long time fans. One of the topics of discussion dealt with early childhood development and the onset of menstruation. I found it an interesting subject for two reasons. I'm a substitute teacher in the Wake County education system in Raleigh, North Carolina, and I've noticed that...  Read More

How many times did we console one of our friends after a bad break-up? Surprisingly, it happens so often to some people that they are perceived by those around them as magnets for nasty people. The situation is irritating and surprising at the same time. Why is it that educated, smart and kind person cannot find someone equally kind? What is wrong? The answer and the remedy can be found in the...  Read More

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Raindrop, the aromatherapy session, was developed by naturopathic doctor to assist clients who require frequent chiropractic adjustment. The idea to apply essential oils along the spine came to him after realization that sometimes structural misalignment might be caused not just by structural damage but also by infections and inflammations along the spine What is a Raindrop Session? It...  Read More

Posts from The Coaches Book Club for 12/14/2011 - http://t.co/feLIQuOv # Powered by Twitter Tools  Read More

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Have you ever wondered what your one sentence is? Or could be? In my coaching it is: I want to help you discover your abundant light. What is your one sentence?  Read More

In today's excerpt - astronomers and physicists are now grappling with evidence that suggests that all the things we can observe in the universe with even the most powerful telescopes is only four percent of what is there. The rest, they posit, is dark matter and dark energy: "In 1610 Galileo announced to the world that by observing the heavens through a new instrument - what we would call a...  Read More

Over and Over again the research is CRYSTAL CLEAR. Gratitude works. Those who take a moment every day to list what they are grateful for lead better lives. So this Thanksgiving, try a serving of gratitude! New York Times OnlineFindings: A Serving of Gratitude May Save the Day The most psychologically correct holiday of the year is upon us. Thanksgiving may be the holiday from hell for...  Read More

This month, Storybird initiated a community challenge, for authors to write about friendship. There is so much negative press about girl friendships. Here are two storybirds I authored, for pre-teen and teen girls, about the positive power of friendship. Both growing up, and in my life now, I have been blessed with good girl-friends. They can make all the difference. Happy reading . . ....  Read More

Thanks to my online 40 Days to a Personal Revolution group, you can now practice with me at home! If you visit this site because you see me for yoga therapy, this practice might not work for you exactly as written and practiced. However, as with all yoga each pose and sequence can be modified to fit your current condition! 40 Days to a Personal Revolution is a fabulous program that strengthens...  Read More

The Green Bay Packers played their rivals the Minnesota Vikings in what National Football League fans call the “black and blue” division because of the hard hitting play. But something was amiss on this Monday night for both teams wore jerseys with their club colors highlighted in bright pink. After a particularly brutal skirmish, television reporters swept into the locker room to talk to the...  Read More

If you're like most people you're probably starting to gear up for the holidays! Parties, family dinners, work obligations and eating on the go all seem to come into play much more this time of year. There is one ridiculously simple thing you can do to ward off the pounds this holiday season: mindful eating. This practice doesn't require counting calories or cutting out any particular kind of...  Read More

The weekly Torah portion we are about to read includes the well known story of Noah and the ark.  It is a story about a generation so evil that God decides it warrants destruction.  It is also a story about God’s care and concern for mankind, as he protects Noah, his family, and representatives of all the animals. In the past few weeks, some of my clinical work has prompted my thinking about...  Read More

Wow! Really? One of the themes of the coaching world is: Celebrate Failure! In this New York Times article Paul Tough points out that the students that stay in college are not necessarily the super smart, super students. It turns out it is the student that has exceptional character strengths (e.g. optimism and persistence and social intelligence). These are the students who can recover from...  Read More

At the top of my website there is a link to a page that explains what coaching is all about, but words can't do coaching justice. I have found a great video to explain in a mystical, right brain kind of way what coaching is like. So humor me....any thoughts?? 2 Common themes explored in coaching are: values and saboteurs. This video starts with a great example of saboteur(s). It is that...  Read More