Detox and weight loss are common thoughts as the new year approaches. If you’ve got weight loss on the mind, we’d like to challenge you to upgrade your mind and think about a change to a healthy lifestyle instead of a one-time diet with the article It’s About Health, Not Weight. Once you’re on board for a lifestyle change, read Detoxing: A Long Term Plan to get the fundamentals of cleansing your body with good nutritional habits. Read More…
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Since we live in a dual reality (up/down, white/black, hot/cold), most of us are conditioned to thinking of ourselves as either left brain (intellectual) or right brain (creative). Although we are usually dominant on one side, this does not mean we don’t posses qualities from both hemispheres. We all have a creative side, but some of us just don’t choose to fly that flag – or harness its power. Read More…
If you read our Irrational Self-Talk article, you may have asked yourself: “Do I do that?” Maybe the answer was a straight out, “yes! That’s me!” But maybe you weren’t sure. To help you uncover this bad habit, here are five examples of irrational thoughts that you may or may not have heard before – in your head: Read More…
Exercise: Want more efficient muscles? Eat your spinach, says a new study. According to research published in Cell Metabolism, nitrate, a compound found in vegetables and especially in green leaves, helps healthy people consume less oxygen while exercising. This happens because the nitrate in vegetables mixes with friendly bacteria in the mouth and forms nitric oxide, which in turn helps the cardiovascular system by opening up our blood vessels to lower blood pressure. The study says that, in addition to this benefit, the nitrates make mitochondria – the powerhouses of the cell - more efficient. Interestingly, the researchers say that since the benefits of nitrates depend on friendly bacteria in the mouth, mouthwashes are not good if you want this system to work because they kill good and bad bacteria. Read More…
The place you live in, whether apartment, house, or studio, tells you quite a bit of what is going on inside of you. Cleansing your physical body is only half of the process of detoxing. If you want really big change, emotional and psychic cleanse need to be part of the plan, and your home can be of assistance in this regard. Believe it or not, it will actually speed up your physical cleanse. Read More…
Keeping your body cleansed is not just a food thing. As Albert Einstein revealed through the now famous equation E = mc², mass (our physical bodies) and energy (the “invisible” stuff) are the same thing. Your emotions, your thoughts, the subtle chakra body – all of these are less dense forms of what you see as your physical body. Your energy can have accumulation too, and it will need to be continuously cleansed in order for you to be healthy. 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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