“I’m a crusader for being yourself and loving yourself but I’ve found it hard to practice,” pop music star, Ke$ha, wrote on her Facebook page in early January 2014. “I’ll be unavailable for the next 30 days, seeking treatment for my eating disorder…to learn to […]
Category: Healthy Living
The Mental and Physical Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation
What began as one of the seven factors of enlightenment according to Buddhist teachings, Mindfulness Meditation is quickly spreading throughout Western society as a way to become more focused and relaxed mentally. Scientific research has confirmed many of the benefits of Mindfulness, including motivation, empathy, […]
Why Should I Stop Putting Off and Start Living My Life Today?
How much time have you already spent worrying instead of doing something you love? What if you just had one more day, what would you do? Most of us take life for granted, that we have plenty of time left to do the things we […]
A Short Eating Guide For A Healthier Life
When changing your lifestyle, not only do you want to improve what you do but how you do it. You want to feel better about who you are, and one way to do that is by eating healthier. Granted, fast food and junk food is […]
Why Does Stretching Work?
Everyone’s been subjected to the mantra of gym coaches and fitness gurus that stretching is a virtual cure-all for muscle injury. In fact, if you listened to all the advice out there on stretching, you’d be stretching after you wake-up, before workouts, after workouts, while […]
3 Exercises to Strengthen Your Emotional Muscles
Exercise is healthy for your body. Everywhere you look, people are talking about getting healthier by exercising, eating right and making changes in their lives. Building a healthy body is important to a happy life. But what you don’t always hear people talk about is […]
Did You Know That Yoga and Visualization Relieves Stress?
The number of scientific studies on the effects yoga, relaxation and visualization has on physical and mental health is growing rapidly. Health organizations and universities have taken on the task of conducting their own studies to determine for themselves if there is any relevance to […]
What Is Mindfulness and Why Should I Care?
If you are like a lot of people these days, you are used to doing at least two things at once. For example, you might organize your bills and keep an eye on your children at the same time. While it is very common to have […]
Easy Ways To Find Heart Healthy Foods
Finding heart healthy foods is a necessity in today’s day and age. Everywhere one looks, there are processed foods that can be consumed. These foods are not only bad for the waist line, they are bad for the heart. Everyone needs to focus on their […]
3 Healthy Habits to Start Your Day
Give your whole day a makeover just by starting your morning in a healthier, more relaxing way with just three habits: exercise, meditate and eat a good breakfast. Exercise We’ve all read a hundred times that waking up and exercising is monumentally good for our […]