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1 Healing Foods for Healthy Teeth
Sat Oct 4, 12:13:17 pm
Views: 181 Comments: 1You brush and floss daily, and these are important steps in your daily routine. But did you know that a few of “nature’s toothbrushes” also can help keep your mouth healthy? From fighting periodontal disease to killing bacteria and ...
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2 Seven Steps to Release Toxic Emotions
Mon Sep 29, 10:06:44 am
Views: 156Ayurveda describes disease as the final expression of toxic accumulations in the mind-body physiology. Every impulse of life can be considered in terms of whether it brings nourishment or toxicity to body, mind, and spirit. A nourishing experience br...
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3 A Healing Touch for Teens
Mon Sep 22, 11:50:59 am
Views: 142Acne, mood swings, growth spurts—we don’t mean to imply that adolescence is a disease, but sometimes it can feel that way. The flux and change that characterize the teen years can leave adolescents (and those around them) feeling out of b...
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4 Acupuncture for Wrinkles
Mon Sep 15, 10:11:12 am
Views: 176Are those smile lines around your eyes no longer a laughing matter? Do you have a worry furrow on your forehead no matter how relaxed your mood? Are you weighing the pros and cons of plastic surgery? Try another option instead—acupuncture.This ...
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5 Beauty Out of Africa
Fri Sep 12, 11:19:15 am
Views: 2072Ghana’s shea nut butter, which has been moisturizing dry skin for years, has paved the way for a slew of African oils, herbs, fruits, and vegetables now appearing in a bevy of the latest beauty tonics. Here’s a sampling.Kigelia Africana. ...
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6 Top 5 Baby Shower Gifts for Mother and Baby's Well-Being
Fri Sep 12, 10:39:31 am
Views: 344Baby showers are a wonderful way to shower mothers-to-be with valuable advice, useful baby items, and love and support. Here is a list of five of our favorite baby shower gifts for mama-to-be and her little one. Have a favorite baby shower gift idea ...
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7 Yoga for Your Period
Mon Sep 8, 12:33:12 pm
Views: 614Do PMS and period pain find you on a monthly retreat to your bed? If so, you might consider incorporating yoga into your routine. The ancient practice offers a variety of health benefits, one of them being relief from symptoms of PMS and menstrual cr...
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8 What Type of Wellness Retreat is Right for You?
Fri Sep 5, 07:23:40 pm
Views: 332When you find your days starting to blend from one into the other, do you feel like you just need to get away from it all? Lucky for you, there are plenty of weekend retreats to boost your mood and make you feel healthier and happier. From swing danc...
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9 Embracing Compassion: A Path Toward Greater Happiness
Tue Aug 26, 02:46:28 pm
Views: 271The dictionary defines “compassion” as “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it.” Compassion is the wish to free all living things from suffering and the causes of suffering. ...
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10 The Non-Violent Communication Process- Communicating From the Heart
Mon Aug 25, 02:08:28 pm
Views: 306To arrive at a mutual desire to give from the heart, we focus the light of consciousness on four areas—referred to as the four components of the NVC model.First, we observe what is actually happening in a situation: what are we observing others...
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11 Healing Helpers
Sat Aug 23, 06:59:25 pm
Views: 317If the thought of growing old with only your pet for company makes you cringe, consider this: A study conducted at UCLA found that dog owners required much less medical attention for pains caused by stress than non–dog owners. In fact, a signif...
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12 Meditate on Your Health
Fri Aug 22, 01:50:26 pm
Views: 527According to Dr. Joan Borysenko, meditation can be broadly defined as any activity that keeps the attention pleasantly anchored in the present moment. In this state, the mind is calm and focused, not reacting to memories from the past nor preoccupied...
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13 Food Therapy
Tue Aug 19, 12:11:36 am
Views: 1278 Comments: 1Does food have the power to heal? “Absolutely!” says San Francisco–based food therapist Kristin Hoppe. Having struggled with her weight, depression, and fatigue since childhood, Hoppe developed a passion for cooking and nutrition af...
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14 Kathy Freston's 5 Favorite Tips for Well-Being
Mon Aug 18, 12:24:17 pm
Views: 749Bestselling author and spiritual counselor Kathy Freston recently challenged Oprah to a twenty-one-day vegan cleanse—and people took notice. In her current book, Quantum Wellness, Kathy hopes to transform and inspire millions more. From conscio...
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15 The Emotional Connection to Tension
Tue Aug 12, 12:00:05 am
Views: 654 While most bodywork experts agree that tension and pain in the body are largely caused by how we move (or don’t move enough) throughout the day, a growing numb...
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16 Cranberry Cure-All
Sat Aug 9, 01:56:38 pm
Views: 502Holistic practitioners have long extolled the virtues of cranberry juice for overcoming urinary tract infections (see Alternative Medicine Chest in the January 2007 issue), and in recent years, researchers have identified proanthocyanidins (PACs) as ...
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17 Too Clean for Comfort
Thu Jul 24, 10:20:30 am
Views: 590Sometime in the 1990s, researchers developed the hygiene hypothesis as a way of explaining the steady increase in chronic respiratory illnesses over the preceding 15 years. According to the American Academy of allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, the num...
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18 Use Natural Solutions to Combat Spider Veins
Thu Jul 24, 10:19:56 am
Views: 1981Even the name sounds ugly. Bluish, purple starbursts of tiny veins tend to creep up on us unnoticed and then surprise us in summer, just as we gear up to show off that new bathing suit.Spider veins, similar to varicose veins, only smaller and closer ...
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19 Healing Scents for Cancer
Thu Jul 24, 10:19:17 am
Views: 913The tremendous anxiety that comes with a cancer diagnosis and the difficult side effects that arise from the subsequent chemotherapy and radiation treatments can cause debilitating physical and emotional reactions in patients. Aromatherapy, which use...
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20 Treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome Naturally
Thu Jul 24, 10:18:38 am
Views: 552I’ve been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome. My doctor has prescribed antidepressants, but I would prefer not to take drugs. What holistic treatments do you recommend for IBS?Many natural treatments can help IBS. Meditating 30 minutes a d...
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