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Where Are You Going? (Not Where Have You Been)
What if on the road to optimal health, our path has lead us straight through the swamp? We’re going to get covered by smelly stuff. REALLY smelly stuff.
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EFT, Massage, and Pains in the Neck
Can EFT be used to make massage and other hands-on techniques more effective? Perhaps my session last night can provide some clues. The client had a sudden onset of pain in her neck. It started early in the morning and was quite intense all day. She couldn’t lie down at all without spasms so severe…
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Emotional Help Remembering Names
Do you have trouble remembering names? If so, you are not alone. It can be so embarrassing to know someone but not know her name. We can live in fear of being put in a situation where we are expected by Miss Manners to introduce this person we know to someone else… but we’re stuck!…
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Can a Confrontation Result in Allergic Asthma?
Okay, so you just got an ice cream cone. You are really looking forward to it, but it is dripping a bit. So, you lick it on your way back to your seat. But that is AGAINST THE RULES where you are, you get caught, and your cone is taken away from you as you…
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Positive and Negative Emotions in Marriage
If your desire is for a healthy, happy relationship, you now have the formula. You need to invest energy in fives times as much positive regard as negative reactions.
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Friends to Live Well (and Long!)
A network of good friends, rather than close family ties, helps you live longer in older age, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
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Exercise-Induced Tension Headache
Have you ever had a tension headache caused by something you did? I woke this morning at 5:30am with a crushing tension headache—the second in just the past two weeks brought on by swimming. The relaxation exercises and self-massage I tried in bed for a half hour did not help much.
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On the Road to Optimal Health
Let’s set aside for a moment how you got where you are… without the level of health and vitality you’d like. It’s a bit like waking up to find that you are in a swamp, east of Palatka—it smells bad, and you want to LEAVE! You can gripe and moan, wail and complain, “Dear God,…
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Get Up and Dance!
I just finished dancing. I put on music I love, and I danced on my elliptical trainer and danced in the living room. I feel SO SO SO much better! I am not an “exerciser.” I really don’t enjoy a gym or weights or anything that smacks of “I should do this because it would…
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Getting Started on Clutter
Each and every item we own has its energy “claim” on us. We have to find it a home, return it home when it gets moved, and keep it clean. I know there is balance in my life when I feel that there is room for my possessions, physically and emotionally. When I start looking…