Wall Angels Kibosh Evil
Posted On Jul 2 2012You too can kibosh the evil effects of too much time at your desk or computer with this simple exercise. Correct your posture, have more energy, be smarter, look sharp, and stay vital. I recommend this simple and easy movement to clients and use it myself. It will make your shoulders happy and reverse the effects of hunching over a keyboard or slaving at a desk. Watch the video. It explains it all. He doesn’t stress keeping the elbows at 90 degrees. Others do. The model in the video doesn’t. Experiment to see what works best for you. …
Think of It As a Part Time Job
Posted On May 4 2012She read it. Wow. I recommend Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy – Until You’re 80 and Beyond to a beloved client. She read it and then as sometime happens she showed me something I didn’t get out of my three readings of the book. To be fit and healthy and to gain the benefits of the book, you have to treat your body like the animal it is, and exercise hard. Every day. Think of your fitness self-care as a part time job. That works for her and works for me. It antidotes the poison …
Eat More, Work Out Less, Lose Fat — Metabolic Effect
Posted On Feb 6 2012Picture this. An Olympic sprinter. OK? Now picture a marathon runner. OK? Now imagine you’re a doctor attending a lecture with Dr. Jade Teta, ND asking you, “Which athlete is more muscular?” “The sprinter,” the audience says. “Yep, that’s easy to tell. Right?” Jade says, “Ok, now which of these two athletes is leaner? Which has less body fat?” Some shout sprinter; some shout marathoner. The docs didn’t really know. The answer to that question forms the basis of the metabolic effect on body composition – how much fat you have vs. how much lean body mass. Before I tell …
Drink Coffee – Talk to God
Posted On Jan 25 2012Drink coffee. Talk to God. Tend your own garden. Live a good life. Serve. I recommend you try this simple practice my friend and fellow member of yours, Brian Steiner shared with me. Every solstice and equinox, Brian and I talk a walk, share nature, and talk. This season, he told me about his morning coffee and affirmation practice. Here’s what Brian says – My coffee and affirmation practice has become very important to me. I do it in the mornings. I grab a cup of coffee (organic French Roast in my case), and sit in my rear yard. I have my …
No. 1 Thing for Your Health?
Posted On Jan 21 2012This beautifully crafted, nine minute, animated video asks the question: “What is the single best thing we can do for our health.” I bet you can guess what it is. I love the drawings of this animated video. You get to watch a quick hand draw illuminations to complement the voice. Stay for the lovely quote at the end from Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the Grateful Dead. Dr. Mike Evans, founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, presents ideas that you’ll enjoy watching because of the drawing and his kind voice. httpv://youtu.be/aUaInS6HIGo …
One Way You Can Stop Seasonal Craziness
Posted On Dec 23 2011Solstice pushes my craziness. It’s like a giant full moon for me. Dreams that make me shiver. Then add in the various holidays, and I get a bit nuts. How about you? Here’s one simple way to be less crazy. Clean up your clutter. At our home, there seems to be more of it during this season. Or I have less mental and emotional room for it. When I get overloaded in one area, it makes all areas a bit more dodgy. I can’t make the holidays go away. I can’t make solstice go away. I can clear my clutter. …
How to Calm Down
Posted On Dec 4 2011When stress has you whimpering or acting like a troll in some fairy tale, ready to rip off heads, you are not at your best. You are the proverbial toddler who needs a nap and some food. Could anything be more obvious? Announcing Kindle version of Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace. I have just rewritten this classic and made it more streamlined. You’ll like it. Naturally, I am happy to include it in my Three Wise Men Epiphany Kindle Sale. All my Kindle books are marked to …
Multitasking Crashes Your Brain
Posted On Nov 30 2011Research confirms what you already know. Multitasking doesn’t work to save time and it makes you feel even more frantic. It doesn’t make you more efficient. You don’t get more done. And, just between us two, it stresses you out. Multitasking blocks your way to living a life you love, don’t you think? Here’s the Research The brain needs to attend to one task at a time. Surprisingly, when measuring neural activity with people doing two tasks at once, the neural activity decreased instead of what you might think. You might think your brain would be processing twice as …
Weiqi? Say What?
Posted On Nov 16 2011Weiqi? Say What, William? Weiqi or Wei Chi (pronounced way chi) can be translated as your vital natural energy defenses. My computer defenses failed and a pernicious villain breached my virus software. After days of trying to get rid of it, I am doing a clean install. This is a great process where one removes everything from the hard drive. So what? Don’t let your body’s defenses get low. I’ll show you what you can do in a moment. Don’t Do This Just like you want to keep your virus software up-to-date, don’t let your take-care-of-yourself practices slip. Do …
Lose Weight and Have More Energy
Posted On Nov 11 2011My beloved naturopath, Amy Hobson, told me about these medical school classmates, Jade and Keoni Teta. They started training people in fitness while still high school students. Then they both went on to study microbiology or the like. After that, they looked around for a medical school that aligned with their research and their experience in training folks. They landed at John Bastyr Naturopathic College. I like these guys and their book — The New ME Diet: Eat More, Work Out Less, and Actually Lose Weight While You Rest Watch these Youtube Videos The New ME Diet lectures part 1 …