Recently, I told a friend about someone I had met a while back and how I’d felt an immediate connection to this person. My friend looked at me with wise eyes and asked, “connection or attraction?” Interesting point. How many of us mistake the feeling of attraction for a potentially lasting connection with someone, what we can develop into a healthy relationship? Plenty – as evidenced by the increasing divorce rate based on “irreconcilable differences”. But the question begged to be asked: When you first meet someone, how do you know when it’s love and when it’s lust? Read More…
Universal Laws explain natural behavior and the creative process, how things come to exist. One of these laws is the Law of Gender, which states: “Everything has its masculine and its feminine principles”. This principle reveals that all of Creation has both male and female energy. Regardless of sexual preference, men have a feminine side, women have masculine side, and everyone would benefit from learning more about his or her own “shadow self”, as Carl Jung used to call the opposite sex internal persona in each of us. Read More…
What is a gentleman? Driven by something I read and considered to be a weak definition of this term, I thought I’d offer my own two cents here. After all, I am a lady, and I think that’s enough to qualify me to at least give this a try. Read More…
The Endocrine System might just be my favorite body system because it is in charge of communication. The hormones secreted by the endocrine glands tell everyone else what to do and when to do it (bossy glands!) But this is just one aspect, one reason why I like it. The other is that it corresponds exactly with the traditional chakra system.
Science first: The Endocrine System is composed of glands that release hormones into the blood, which tell the various organs in our body what to do or stop doing (we got this). Let’s look at the major glands and their jobs: Read More…
Psychology: Looks like washing your hands has more than a physical benefit. A recent study concludes that the activity “wipes the slate clean,” affecting us psychologically by removing doubts about recent choices, in addition to the feeling of being clean of germs as well as the already established link to feeling morally restored. “It’s not just that washing your hands contributes to moral cleanliness as well as physical cleanliness, as seen in earlier research” said Spike W. S. Lee, a doctoral candidate in social psychology. “Our studies show that washing also reduces the influence of past behaviors and decisions that have no moral implications whatsoever.” The researchers say that the “clean slate” effect may be relevant to many choices and decisions in life, not just the complex ones where ‘good behavior’ is implicated (for example, cheating) but also with simple choices like whether to buy one car over another (buyer’s remorse). The study was published in the May 7th issue of Science. Read More…
Sex: Hooking up or dating? According to research done at a university campus, where ‘hooking up’ is a mainstream means of interaction, both genders showed a preference for traditional dating over hooking up, but when it came to assessing the benefits and risks of these two different ways of relating, there were marked distinctions. Women seemed to want a relationship more than men, and they feared that they will become more emotionally attached to a partner who is not interested in them, while more men seemed to value independence and feared that even in hooking up type of relationships that are supposed to be free of commitment, a woman might seek to establish a relationship. The study was published in the journal Sex Roles. Read More…
