Do you trust your gut instincts? Can you just know when you should do something or when you should avoid something altogether? In ancient medicinal systems, the gut was considered your lower source of intuition- hence the concept of a gut instinct. For your third chakra, Manipura, it is all about that gut instinct and…
Your Sacral Chakra & Your Health: Fertility, Desire, Creativity & Your Hips
Quick question. Do you always have tight hips or hamstrings? Can you touch your toes? Yes on the tightness and no on the toe-touching? Did you know that these two things are directly related to an imbalance in your Sacral Chakra? Tightness or stiffness in a joint can be correlated to an energy blockage in…
Your Root Chakra & Your Health: Security, Stability & Balance
If you saw the word “Chakra” a few years ago or even a decade ago, you might sit there scratching your head. That is, unless you practiced yoga or were familiar with Auyurveda, the traditional Indian medicinal system. What was once deemed to be New-Age-y or property of incense burning hippies is making a resurgence…
Why Should You Be Paying More Attention To Your Chakras If You Want To Be Healthy?
Usually if you’re looking to be healthier, you’ll hit the gym more often, you’ll eat more fruits and vegetables. You may even get to bed earlier and get a check-up from your doctor. But where in the “I Want To Be Healthier” handbook, is there any mention of your chakras? What is a chakra anyway?…
Is Reiki Right For You?
In a time of rising medical costs, an aging population and new technological advances, why would I be talking about an ancient healing art over 2,000 years old? Why Reiki and why now? What is it about this ancient Japanese healing modality that is so timely despite all of the options available right now, right…
Top 10 Ways To Get More Fiber Into Your Diet
Whenever I say the word Fiber, I hear groans, stories of bran, grape nuts and chewing on tree bark. Not a good thing. Unfortunately for all of us, our bodies need fiber and I don’t mean need in a “it would be really nice to have but it wouldn’t be catastrophic without it” kind of…
The Health Benefits of Jumping Rope
Name one exercise that torches calories, tones every single muscle in your body and that you can do anywhere and at any time and that doesn’t require expensive equipment or clothing. Give up? It’s jumping rope! It’s no longer the property of boxers or martial artists and it’s not relegated to the playground anymore. What…
Do You Suffer From the “Wizard of Oz” Syndrome?
You have seen “The Wizard of Oz”, haven’t you? Like at least once or twice? Or are you at least familiar with the story? A girl is magically transported to another land where she teams up with a group of misfits in order for all of them to find the mythical and all-powerful Wizard who…
It’s Time to Make Yourself a Priority Already
I’m not in the habit of mincing words, so let me just say that life can totally suck. People get sick and die. Friends come and go, sometimes for no reason and sometimes for a really good one. Jobs and careers begin, fade away, come back and then disappear out of thin air. Economies go…
10 Tips to Help You Maintain Good Health
As we all start to get a little bit older, we begin to realize that maintaining good health becomes more and more of a priority and less of an indulgence. Why? The easiest answer is that as advances and improvements in medicine occur, our quality of life begins to improve. And with that, our lifespans…
