A Healthy Nervous System – The Foundation of Performance and Health
By Robert Kaufer – As a baby boomer, a healthy nervous system is the foundation of your performance and health and is the key to all of the change. It is literally the foundation of your life. Your nervous system (NS) controls absolutely everything you do from your movement, breathing, digestion, immune system, hormones and [...]
How Important is Laughter?
By Gerry Hopman – Nothing is more personal than your smile and your laughter. They are your personal signature and are totally unique to you. Babies start laughing when they are 10 – 12 weeks old. When they laugh, their whole body jumps and bounces. Everything in their small bodies is engaged in a laughter [...]
Medical profession, wake up and smell the coffee
By Irene Conlan – I dutifully stood in line at the cardiology center waiting to have an echocardiogram and a nuclear stress test. A recent checkup with my nurse practitioner indicated an abnormal ECG and they wanted to see just what is going on with my heart. They checked me in and, after filling out [...]
Health That Works is Holistic
By Juancho S Gaerlan – Health is often pictured out as taking supplements and doing workouts. So health investments are usually channeled to them. However, physical condition and appearance are just one aspect of it. Other equally pressing health concerns should be given weight. Health that works is holistic. Looking Good But Sick To some [...]
For Memorial Day
Memorial Day is more than a long weekend, picnics and sales by the local merchants. Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. It was enacted to honor Union soldiers [...]
The Incredible Power of Touch
By Kirsty Taylor – What a lovely word ‘haptic’ is. It’s a technical word meaning ‘relating to touch’ and immediately the word ‘happy’ springs to mind. Although the words do not come from the same linguistic origin, the association is fitting because most forms of touch – caressing, stroking, patting, for example – do lead [...]
Fear is Physical
By Greg Katz – How attune are you to your body? Are you conscious of the slight changes in your physical nature? Ever been standing out in the cold and you begin to shiver? If you take a deep breath and relax the body the shivering will stop…at least for a bit. The point is [...]
Dealing With and Managing Anger
By Muriel Gill – In any relationship and our interactions with other people, we have certain needs, demands, expectations and attitudes. We may be aware or unaware of these; they may be expressed or not. But when they are not met, we feel hurt, disappointed, violated and angry. This is how anger begins; feeling violated. [...]
Cell Phones and Your Health
By Jeanette Pollock – The growing use of cell phones has sparked an international debate: is using a cell phone a health risk or not? Some people think that they are. Cell phones, like microwaves and televisions, emit radioactive waves whenever they are turned on. In the past, the radiation emitted by these appliances was [...]
Health and Fitness is the Difference Between Living Well and Living
By Joseph Ameye – There is the old saying that health is wealth. More than ever before this saying is still relevant in today’s world. Your health is the key to your destiny, the key to your wealth, the key to your happiness, the key to a sound mind and mental alertness and the key [...]
