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Holly’s great post on “Feel Better Day” reminded me how it’s so easy when we’re ill–either from a passing cold or a long-term disease–to slip into the emotional dumps. But it’s not necessary to feel blue while your body is healing. In fact, many studies show that the brighter your mood the faster you mend. As someone…

Our friend Dr. Norris, author of the Dr. Norris Chumley Satisfied Life blog, offers a visualization to do in your morning shower to start your day with both a clean body and a pure spirit: “Imagine that the stress from your fears, worries, and problems is flowing away, out of your body: down, down, down…

I love the internets. I’m still at work and realizing I have no idea what to cook for my single gal’s dinner. So I googled “What should I eat for dinner?” And found this list of recipe suggestions. Handy! I think I’m opting for a simple stir fry with broccoli, beets, and some grass-fed beef…

Don’t you love random “holidays?” Things like “Happy Hump Day” or “It’s my half-birthday” are really just excuses to declare to the world, “I want to feel good today!”  But they do the trick, and I think we need more of them.  Starting with “Feel Better Day,” that day when you realize after a cold…

Nope, this isn’t an ad for Reynold’s Wrap, just a heads up that on Earth Day (April 22nd) you’ll be able to go onto the Reynold’s Wrap website and get a mail-in rebate for a free roll of recycled foil (on a recycled cardboard tube). Here’s all the info you’ll need: http://www.reynoldsrecycled.com/rebate.aspx In addition to…

With Portuguese Water dog Bo instated in his new White House home, no doubt we can all brace for a fresh doggy-breath scented gust of puppy fever. This happily coincides with the resurgence of “doga,” or dog yoga, a phenom covered in a recent NYT article. Here’s how they describe it: “Doga combines massage and meditation with…

There are some fascinating health developments to report on this week.  Here are 3 to think about: Are electronic health records going too far, too fast? There are a proliferation of new tools designed to empower patients and give them–and their doctors–easy access to all of their medical records in one place.  iChart is a…

This is a lovely quote about having compassion for people most in need of it: “What we do from joy expresses love; what we do from fear calls for love.” — Alan Cohen It’s so easy to forget that most of the crappy things humans do are from fear, and as such, are actually calls…

We’ve all heard the phrase, attributed to peace activist Anne Herbert, “Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.”  So here’s a question: Have you done any lately?  Seen any?  I suspect that among you are many perpetrators of such acts, we’d love to gather them to show how kindness is the rule,…

A friend just sent me this amazingly simple, fun tone matrix, and I can’t stop playing with it!  You start with a blank slate, and boxes light up as you click.  A “sound wave” travels across the box, and your lit boxes produce sounds, harmonic, dissonant, repetitive – whatever you want to arrange.  Just press…
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