This Design section features life design, the connection between our internal and external environments, green living, sustainable wellness, being aware of creating the life that you want to live to bring out the best in you.
Here’s a no-brainer: If something isn’t working, and it doesn’t look like it is going to improve, change it.
Sometimes emotions make us say “if I stop this, it means I failed,” preventing us from moving on in our evolutionary paths. But that’s an outdated concept. Change doesn’t mean failure. It’s OK to change – change your mind, change your environment, change your situation. Read More…
As we mentioned in a previous post, detoxing is a holistic process. It involves cleansing every aspect of yourself, including your body, your mind, and even your home space. We often feel the need to clean out our space or change our decor right after or during a detoxing period, and this is no coincidence because Your Home is a Reflection of You. As you change internally, you will feel the desire and need to change externally.
To help you jump-start this process, here are some articles that will transform the way you see and relate to your living environment. It’s a new year and the possibilities are endless – give yourself a boost by cleansing mind, body, spirit and space: Read More…
We’re in the middle of holiday cheer – and shopping – and some much-needed “vacation” time (is shopping really a vacation? Hmm…), but we wanted to make sure we shared some cool articles with you to help you thrive this particular holiday week. Here is a little something for everyone – gift ideas, health tips, and more, for mind, body, spirit, and planet: Read More…
We recently ran across a CNN article titled “Secrets of Women Who Don’t Get Sick” that listed the usual not-so-secret suspects to ward off colds and flus: don’t stress, breathe fresh air, wash your hands, get enough sleep. While these are great basic practices regardless of season, we decided to take it to the next level and share with you some real and proven Silvie+Maryl “secrets” that have kept us breezing through any season and will have you saying, “cold? what cold?”: Read More…
When we created the Wellness MindApps™ system for optimal health, we included Design as one of the four key areas. This was at first associated with home decor, and while this section definitely includes decoration, the planet, how your environment reflects and affects you, as well as information on human design and the body, Design is the umbrella for the idea that you can use your power of creation in every aspect of your life. In this episode, we explain this concept and why we are all designers of our lives. Read More…
Today is National Wear Red Day, an occasion in which we’re asked to wear something red to show our support for spreading awareness about heart health. As sponsors for the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement, we want to offer some information that you can use when talking heart wellness, and that will help you maintain a loving relationship with your very own beloved heart. Read More…
To blend or to juice? That is always the question we get from our readers – and we answer it in full detail for you right here.
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