When mindful awareness is practiced we begin along the path home to ourselves. Home is inside each of us. It requires only being alone with your breathing. The path home begins with your breath. Try the practice of mindful breathing. When you breathe in, you come back to yourself. When you breathe out, you release […]
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Thousands of studies have been conducted by independent research institutions, over many decades, on the practice of mindfulness meditation. These studies have shown mindfulness meditation can be clinically effective for managing pain, depression, stress, anxiety and a wide range of medical and mental health conditions. Give mindfulness meditation practice a try. Mindfulness is a quality […]
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Last June when I made a career move, my amazing friends gave me a book entitled “The New Health Rules” by F. Lipman and D. Claro. There are so many great wellness and health strategies in this little book and the information on why meditation is worth a try guided me in using it as […]
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One of the green places I love to go to near my condo in Seattle is Volunteer Park. Some believe it is the crown jewel of Seattle’s parks. In 1903, the nation’s premier landscape architects, the Olmsted Brothers, came to the Pacific Northwest from their offices in Brookline, Massachusetts to plan parks and playgrounds for […]
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My siblings and I spent many weekends and summers playing in the woods of central Illinois. My sister and I could tread water in the “lakes” for hours. We would watch the water spider’s race across the surface of the lake. Then we would hop in our rowboat and head down the lake to find […]
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For as long as I can remember green has always been my favorite color so it seems natural that I love being surrounded by the green outdoors. Seattle is known as the emerald city since you see green in every direction you look! Get away for a few days in the great green outdoors. This is […]
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I have been reading the National Geographic since I was a child. My parents subscribed to it for as long as I can remember and my mom has given a subscription of the magazine as a gift to our family each December. During 2016, National Geographic is completing a yearlong series celebrating the power of […]
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I just spent last week enjoying the beauty of the Hawaiian Islands and taking advantage of all of the opportunities to move and be active in such a perfect setting and climate. Each day was in the low 80’s, but the breeze off of the ocean made it feel cooler and walking, hiking and biking […]
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Essential ingredients for a perfect 2016! Take 12 whole months. Clean them thoroughly of all bitterness, hate and jealousy. Make them just as fresh and clean as possible. Cut each month into 28, 30 or 31 different parts, but don’t make up the whole batch at once. Prepare one day at a time with […]
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Last month, I became stuck working on some projects I needed to finish. I looked out the window and noticed the brilliant orange-yellow of a larch tree in my neighbor’s yard. Although a conifer, the larch is a deciduous tree and loses its leaves in the autumn. The western larch and subalpine larch grow in […]
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