For some reason, I’m finding music in the yogic tradition especially uplifting, even though I’m not really a yoga practitioner, nor any sort of hindu practitioner. Maybe it works for me because I DON’T understand the words and am just carried off by the feeling of love and devotion of the people singing it. It… Continue reading Sweetness for You
Category: Health & Healing
How My Knees Healed
In my age group–I’m 59–it’s pretty common for people to have arthritic knees, and to be told by their doctors that it’s “bone on bone”–meaning the cartilage is gone, and it’s time for a knee replacement. I’ve always thought of myself as younger than my chronological age, so it was quite upsetting to find, after… Continue reading How My Knees Healed
Is Vacation Okay With You?
I noticed an odd pattern recently, upon returning from that latest intense wilderness adventure. It’s not the first time this has happened. When people asked how my vacation was, I bristled. An odd response, I know! I immediately insisted that I wasn’t on vacation, I was on an adventure, or was at a conference, or… Continue reading Is Vacation Okay With You?
Shortcut to Happiness
When I’m feeling a little off, I use something from my huge toolbox of things to bring myself back to happiness. Singing, listening to music, and dancing are my personal favorites. The latest addition to my happiness toolbox are the two videos you’ll find on this page: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/04/26/306565544/come-dance-with-me?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140426 What’s in YOUR happiness toolbox?
Getting to Happy
It’s an interesting thing, the mind. When you’re in the unhappy mind, you believe that in order to get to happy, problems must be solved, conditions must be met, change must happen. Usually, unhappiness is because of the additional belief that the problems that must be solved aren’t easily solved–if they’re possible to solve at… Continue reading Getting to Happy
The Best Advice
If I could give you one piece of advice that would sum up all I’ve learned about healing these past ten years that I’ve been running “The Science of Being Well Network,” it would be this: **************** Do whatever it takes to be happy. **************** Yup, that means forget about health or trying to heal.… Continue reading The Best Advice
Your Size, Shape, and How to Change It
When you look in the mirror, who do you see looking back at you? Do you identify with that image, thinking “this is me?” Do you think of that body you see as something or someone foreign to you, separate from you, a body you inhabit, but isn’t who you are at all? Do you… Continue reading Your Size, Shape, and How to Change It
Those Neanderthal Ideas
Here’s the crux of an email exchange I had with a reader the other day, that raises some common questions: Vincent: “I was reading about what, when, and how to eat and learned to eat naturally. If you want to take multivitamins, what does Wattles say about that?” Me: Mr. Wattles doesn’t address this question,… Continue reading Those Neanderthal Ideas
The Joy Diet
If you’ve never read Martha Beck’s splendid little book, “The Joy Diet,” I heartily recommend it. She’s a wonderful writer, full of humor, honesty, presence, and an excellent prescription for health. The book’s not much about the food part of your diet, except for one small but important part. Here are the rules for eating:… Continue reading The Joy Diet
That Thing You Can’t Ignore
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had several patients come to me with new diagnoses of cancer, and tumors and cysts that COULD be cancer. What they all have in common is cells growing abnormally. Given the common interpretation of cancer as something that invades, takes over, and has a life of its own… Continue reading That Thing You Can’t Ignore