Stress LESS through Mindful Living®
Eating healthy doesn’t just mean cutting out the chips and candy bars. It’s important to include more produce in your diet. While people can easily incorporate fruit into their daily meals, veggies can be a bit more a challenge (especially at breakfast time). By using these five vegetarian breakfast recipes, you can start your day…
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Your children have spent this past year in school, developing their left-brain (logic and mathematics). Spend time this summer helping develop their right-brain, and let their creativity blossom just like the flowers around us. Being outside will give your family a better connection to nature and teach them invaluable lessons about life and themselves. Keep your…
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Having nightmares? Nightmares are a common part of childhood, which can start affecting kids in preschool. While most people have occasional nightmares as adults, two to eight percent of adults experience chronic nightmares. Fortunately, one of the ways to beat your nightmares is reducing your stress. Nightmares are a continuation of the thoughts and images that…
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In previous times preserving food was not a luxury but an essential necessity for survival. You either preserved your food or you perished. I began canning again when I saw my daughters growing up and I feared they might not learn the gift of knowing how to preserve food as my grandmother and mother taught…
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Have you ever heard of a sea of stars? Well, now you’ve not only heard of one, you’ve seen one! As night falls on certain beaches around the world, the waves glow with an eerie blue light. Millions of small, blue neon dots make it look as though stars are washing up on shore. “The…
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Celebrating the Exquisite Rose What is more beautiful than a rose? I agree with Ralph Waldo Emerson as he said, “There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence,” It’s National Rose Month and time to celebrate the exquisite rose. No matter what color, classifications or lineage, any rose is…
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We have some unique cultural wedding traditions in America, but have you ever wonder what weddings are like in countries on the other side of the globe? Wedding customs from around the world vary from simplistic and intimate to grand and extended (some ceremonies lasting a full week). Here’s an inspirational look at traditions wedding…
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It’s a bad idea physically and psychologically to have a desk lunch at your job. A survey from the American Dietetic Association finds that 75 percent of office workers eat lunch at their desks as often as two or three times a week. Here are a few mindful lunch ideas that can change your life.…
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I have been thinking about what the Buddhists say about attachment. Buddhism believes our suffering in life is created by our cravings and attachments. I agree with this. I have been thinking about all my attachments: husband, children, status, money, property, jobs, friends, etc. etc. and the list goes on. Maybe attachments have an invisible…
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Check out this amazing, must see video about free diving called ‘One Breath Around the World’. It’s an absolutely stunning short documentary that featuring world champion freediver Guillaume Néry as he explores some remarkable places underwater. Free diving is a form of underwater diving that relies on the diver holding their breath until resurfacing, as…
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