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Science says massage relieves stress!
So basically, massage relieves stress and light touch increases bonding.
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Posted in articles, gratitude, massage, science
Tagged benefits of massage, massage, oxytocin, research, stress hormones
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Wild Wood Bakehouse takes the gluten-free cake!
I don’t know why I feel like whispering, but I do. Maybe because it’s such a revelation.
I could eat anything on the menu here and nothing would make me sick. I don’t have to ask about a single thing, “Is that gluten-free?” Continue reading
Posted in food
Tagged ambiance, bakery, bread, cafe, campus area, gluten-free, happy hour, restaurant, sandwiches, Wild Wood Bakehouse
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This is water.
Here’s a video made about a commencement speech, about the banality that is the water we swim in in our modern daily lives, and where our freedom truly lies. The capital T Truth is about life before death. It is … Continue reading
Posted in breathing, compassion, quotes, video, wisdom
Tagged awareness, choice, commencement speech, David Foster Wallace, day in day out, education, freedom, knowledge, life before death, thinking, this is water, truth, value, video
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What does being healthy mean to you?
I like the well-being definition (of course I do, look at the name of my blog!). It has a direction of “moving toward” rather than “avoiding,” which the absence definition does.
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What I’m reading, April 2013
Books I’m reading, recently read, or soon to start. Continue reading
Posted in books, movies
Tagged Beelzebub's Tales, behavioral modeling, book groups, books, E.J. Gold, Enneagram, essential self, financial independence, Fourth Way, Grant Soosalu, Gurdjieff, Gurdjieffian book group, gut brain, head brain, heart brain, J.G. Bennett, Jeanne de Salzmann, Marvin Oka, mBraining, Meetings with Remarkable Men, NLP, P.D. Ouspensky, quality of life, seeing, The Reality of Being, Your Money or Your Life
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Anne Lamott on how to become yourself
Anne Lamott: It would be very nice for nervous types like me if things were black-and-white, and you could tell where one thing ended and the next thing began, but as Einstein taught us, everything in the future and the past is right here now. Continue reading
Posted in articles, books, compassion, inspiration, love, wisdom
Tagged Anne Lamott, becoming yourself, book, grief, identity, living consciously, Oprah, rage, stopping, Twitter, well-being
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Health is…
The best six doctors anywhereAnd no one can deny itAre sunshine, water, rest, and air,Exercise and diet.These six will gladly you attendIf only you are willingYour mind they’ll easeYour will they’ll mendAnd charge you not a shilling.~ Nursery rhyme … Continue reading
Developing attentional flexibility: the 12 states of attention
Attentional flexibility can create a sense of spaciousness around problems, provide options, and allow one to have a broader experience of life. Continue reading
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Tagged 12 states of attention, attention, auditory, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, bodywork, craniosacral therapy, energetic processes, internal/external, kinesthetic, MaryAnn Reynolds, massage, narrow/broad, Navaching, Nelson Zink, The Well Ashiatsu and Massage, visual
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Welcome, reader from Sao Tome and Principe
Cesaria Evora’s song Sodade is about longing to return home to Sao Tome. Continue reading
Posted in connecting, inspiration, music, photos, video
Tagged Africa, blog stats, Cesaria Evora, islands, Sao Tome and Principe, Sodade, Wikipedia
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