Would You Like a Coffee, Whiskey or Water (Breath)? Your body and mind follow your breath like a band follows the conductor. Knowing this, we can conduct the band to play music for whatever occasion we desire. Let’s say you’re stressed, your breath can help you calm down. Or let’s say you’re tired, breathing a certain way can lift you […]
The Real Reason Finally Revealed Bosses are trying to pull their employees back to their desks, while newly liberated remote workers are pulling away. “Sorry, not sorry.” The remote workers say they’re getting more done by not commuting back-and-forth, or eating out for lunch five days a week, or pretending to be busy while sitting behind the screen as their weary […]
Intuition from Chocolate? Sometimes an article can take days to write. This one I wrote in one morning. Was it because the chocolate nutrient-rich Cacao beverage I drank? Possibly, it certainly provided a lift and a mental focus with a side of bliss. Starting with cacao in the morning while setting an intention, often called a “Cacao Ceremony,” is growing […]
There’s Another Way… We’ve all heard the benefits of meditation: a calm mind, youthful appearance, less stress, better focus and manifesting one’s dreams. Ahh… Bliss? Not so fast… Anyone who’s actually tried to sit quietly with their spine straight while putting their mind on pause is in for a rude awakening. First off, enlightenment is not what happens when someone sits […]
A Look At the Naked Numbers There are more educated women than ever. There are also more single women than ever. Is that bad? No, but that didn’t stop my wife from asking me the question after she met yet another charming woman looking for love. Make no mistake, something is happening… In the year 2000, there were 26 million singles […]
I Took Ashwagandha For One Year, Here’s What Happened I trust real-life experience over packaged advice. I also know how to deep-dive a subject like the journalist I was trained to be. All trails led me to what some call the most revered herb on the planet: Indian Ginseng, or Ashwagandha. To the untrained eye, it’s just an evergreen shrub in […]
Take a Picture Before and While Doing This… Over the ages, few human desires can compete with the yearning to be more beautiful. Go to a big-box store and look at the aisle devoted to beauty, or should I say look at the aisles. And it’s not just women, men are more tuned into this yearning than most of us would […]
Oh, the Humanity! I’ll just paint a picture, based on real scenes, without judgement. Pregnant bellies are everywhere. Smiles abound. But … it’s complicated. A nicely dressed woman stumbles out of a bar and collapses on the sidewalk. Her friends rush to help her as she gets back up laughing uproariously. Restaurants can’t find enough people to serve the throngs of […]
We Were Willing to Be the Guinea Pigs As Americans go back to concerts, restaurants and each other, we have one group to thank: those who took the sting. While I respect those not comfortable with the vaccine, just please stop spreading fake news about it. I always trust real life experience over someone’s arrangement of words. I got jabbed […]
Traditional Advice Just Wasn’t Working We all know the value of a day, one person’s 24 hours can inspire the world while most of us barely inspire a yawn. We all know we have these amazing brains full of unused potential. Heck, some of us even believe we have these cosmic souls with potential beyond imagination. We see and feel the […]