A Meditation on Nothing
June 22, 2012
By Pilar Gerasimo
There’s something about the promise of variety, novelty and sheer quantity. The other day, while I was at my trainer’s studio, I noticed a popular women’s fitness magazine on the coffee table. Mixed in with the usual headlines (flat belly, sexy legs, yada yada yada), one line with an eye-popping number grabbed my attention: “860 MOVES FOR A HOT UPPER BODY.” Not six moves, mind you, or even 60, but 860. That’s a lot for… Read More >
Healing With Love
May 29, 2012
By Guest Blogger
After 20 years in family practice, and the last 10 years of an integrated approach, I now wonder if all healing can occur from a space of true, compassionate and unconditional love. Can love truly heal all illness? Can love heal depression? Chronic fatigue? Multiple sclerosis? Diabetes? Anxiety? Obesity? Can love heal every ailment we hear of in medicine? I feel it can. I now work teaching people how to release and allow true love… Read More >
The State-of-Grace: Where Unlimited Possibilities Await
May 24, 2012
By Guest Blogger
I love being in that state–of-grace place where synchronicity occurs, coincidences happen, just the right people, books, and events present themselves, and things work out better than I can imagine. It’s the magical realm of unlimited possibilities — I also call it the Miracle-Prone Zone. I’ve experienced this place throughout my life and it has thrilled me and filled me with a knowing that there is so much more to life than meets the eye.… Read More >
Body and Mind Remedies for Eczema and Other Conditions
May 8, 2012
By Guest Blogger
In the past couple of months I experienced an unprecedented bad case of eczema. What started off as an innocuous patch of dermatitis, contained on one of my fingers, spread angrily all over my chest and stomach and onto my back, and finally, to each of my four limbs. It wasn’t pretty, and it eventually got me really down, which obviously did not help! Since becoming an almost organic vegan, my diet has been more… Read More >
How to Be Spiritual Without Meditating
May 3, 2012
By Guest Blogger
I don’t meditate. I know, I know. I’ve read everything you’ve read about meditation. It’s good for your health, it helps with manifestation, it keeps you young, it enhances your intuition, it increases creativity and productivity … the list of positive benefits is endless, right? And according to our beloved Kris Carr, it’s a prerequisite for Crazy Sexy success! Ouch. Am I in trouble? I’ve tried meditation. Yes, I have! While it was supposed to… Read More >
My Journey With Yoga
April 26, 2012
By Guest Blogger
From an outside perspective, one could be forgiven for wondering if I took my cues from Goldilocks when it comes to practicing yoga: trying all of the styles, repeatedly, only to find one “too hot,” the next “too hard,” etc. … quickly moving on to the next, except that I never found one that was just right. It certainly wasn’t for a lack of trying. When I say I tried every kind of yoga, I… Read More >
Simple Acts of Radical Noticing
March 16, 2012
By Leslie Carr Psy.D.
This article is about the simple but significant role that the act of “noticing” plays in our psychological lives. While at first blush it may seem basic, do not be fooled. Truly noticing our thoughts, feelings and behaviors is the first – and quite possibly the most important – ingredient in creating desired change. While it seems magnificently simple, it is, in fact, positively revolutionary. Now, what do I mean by “noticing” exactly? What… Read More >
Letting Go of Romantic Fear
February 3, 2012
By Gabrielle Bernstein
Let’s face it: Sometimes romantic relationships can be totally nightmarish instead of wonderful. While there are a lot of reasons romance can be tough, most of the time the chaos begins within. As a student and teacher of the metaphysical text A Course in Miracles, I’ve come to understand how our ego (fear mind) wreaks havoc in the romantic arena. The Course guides us to see how we project our fear and neuroses onto our… Read More >
Deepen Your Awareness; Become Luminous
January 30, 2012
By Sharon Salzberg
In Pali, the language of the original Buddhist texts, the term for the potent and alive energy of awareness is “tejos.” The word has several meanings. It can mean heat, flame, fire, or light, and it conveys a sense of splendor and radiance and glory. Tejos refers to a very bright energy, a strength, and a power that is luminous. By practicing meditation, we bring forth some of this splendor, this luminosity, and this power… Read More >
Present Moments Make the Best Presents
December 14, 2011
By Terri Cole
Holiday mode is in full swing! Here comes the month when many people hit the ground running and don’t stop until they crash on New Years Day, needing a vacation from their vacation. The entire season can become a blur of obligation and stress from running yourself ragged both physically and emotionally. However, you have the power the make this year different. Effectively managing the fast pace of today’s American lifestyle can be super stress… Read More >
Sweat With Love: Three Ways to Rejuvenate Your Workout
December 5, 2011
By Guest Blogger
God, do I love to dance. I love the way music feels in my body. It’s like the boom, boom ka of a drumbeat calls my cells to celebrate, which call to my bones, which call to my muscles, and before you know it, I am movin’ and groovin’ with pure abandonment. I loved to dance so much that, in 4th grade, I decided that was it. Move over Jennifer Beals: There’s a new flash… Read More >
Cabbage Sutra
November 30, 2011
By Sharon Salzberg
I was once practicing meditation in Benares, India, in a monastery situated right in between a bus station and a train station. In this very urban, crowded place, there was one patch of garden that was a few square feet. I was sitting outside there one day next to the few little tufts of grass and other growing things, when I noticed that within the garden there was a single cabbage growing. In that moment,… Read More >
Hypnosis and Your Journey to Wellness
August 1, 2011
By Guest Blogger
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a perplexing illness with no rhyme or reason. Some people get better; others do not. I am one of the ones who has never gotten my life back, or at least not yet. I have had some good years, but never in the past 26 years have I been without chronic exhaustion, pain, migraines or other strange body symptoms. Over the years, I have tried homeopathy, naturopathic remedies, different diets, acupuncture,… Read More >
14 Ways to Combat Corporatitis
July 11, 2011
By Frank Lipman, MD
In my integrative and functional medicine practice, hardly a day goes by when I don’t see several patients suffering with a touch of corporatitis maximus (CM). While you won’t find CM defined on Wikipedia or easily searched on Google, you will find it lurking in the minds and bodies of stressed-out, over-extended, over-committed employees of corporations, everywhere. So what exactly is CM? Well, to be honest, it’s a catchall phrase I use to describe the… Read More >
Meditation: What It Is … and Isn’t
July 6, 2011
By Sharon Salzberg
When I first returned in 1974 from studying in India, I’d commonly find myself at a party or in a social situation where someone would ask me, “What do you do?” When I replied, “I teach meditation,” I’d more often than not hear them say “Oh,” as they sidled away. The implication of their reaction was very clear: “That’s weird!” Nowadays, largely because of scientific research into meditation’s effect on the brain and immune system,… Read More >
Designing SAZON in Your Life!
May 26, 2011
By Guest Blogger
By Clarisa Mompremier Let’s get real! How many of us go through life feeling happy? Feeling like all our dreams can come true? Feeling empowered to go out and live out our passions? It’s about time we began spicing things up in our lives. Throwing flavor and sazon on our lives, means we are opened to design milagros! I teach the, “A Course in Miracles.” In Spanish this awesome course is called, “Un Curso de… Read More >
Wearing Your Intention: How To Choose Mala Beads
May 24, 2011
By Guest Blogger
By Diana Charabin Years ago when I first heard of Kris Carr, I wondered how could cancer be sexy? I understood the crazy part but I was yet to understand how Kris could take something with such an opposite connotation, “cancer,” (just saying it makes me feel a punch in the stomach) and turn it into inspiration and hope. I have had a similar experience with mala beads. For those of you who don’t know,… Read More >
How Yoga and Meditation Will Help Us Create a Brighter, Better Future
April 14, 2011
By Guest Blogger
by Christa Avampato If ever there was time in our history when the world needs every ounce of creativity from every corner, it’s now. Our environment, governments and healthcare and education systems are just a few of the areas of society that desperately need reinvention. We must begin to look for solutions with new eyes and unwavering confidence that we can make a difference. Your Potential for Greatness I have been spending quite a bit… Read More >
How Meditation Changes Your Life
April 1, 2011
By Rolf Gates
“The ego is a dysfunctional relationship to the now.” Eckhart Tolle I did not start meditating in earnest until my daughter Jasmine was born. Twelve years before I had bought a book on Zen meditation and began a seated practice on my own. The results were dramatic. A few weeks after I started, a friend of mine asked, “Rolf, what happened to your car? It’s clean!” I smiled and said, “Meditation.” I have always loved… Read More >
How Meditation Benefits Your Fitness Plan
February 22, 2011
By Guest Blogger
by Stuart Watkins Before reading this, give yourself a few breaths of stillness. Close your eyes, connect with yourself and just breathe. Feel immense gratitude for who you are, for what is flowing in your life and for exactly where you are. Just observe how healing, inspiring and refreshing it is to be still, to breathe mindfully and to be grateful. In this stillness lies an abundance of wisdom, creativity, healing, truth and inspiration. I’m… Read More >
