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Happy New Year! And Happy NEW Decade! So, have you come up with a resolution yet? I always go back and forth on whether or not I like resolutions. I feel like we should be mindful of our health every day all year long, so why only focus only at the beginning of each year? [...]

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DUDE! I’m on my fourth week of jury duty and its taking its toll on me. It is absolutely emotionally draining. Despite eating proper foods and following nature’s clock, my tongue is coated white in the back. I’ve had two migraines since Thursday and my eyes feel like they are being pulled back into my [...]

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About a month ago, my boyfriend and I decided to foster a dog. In September she was 8 months old, had a badly broken leg (hit by a car) and was scheduled to be put down at the shelter. I saw an email with her name and photo, freaked out and worked with a rescue [...]

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Ok, we don’t normally tend to overeat fruits or veggies, do we? But quite often we mindlessly grab salty snacks and sweet candies just because they are hanging out (like at the office), regardless of hunger. Then as we’re all jacked up on sugar, we might get jittery, extra chatty, feel restless and lose our [...]

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Hey! It’s no new news that social networking is all the rage. Seems like every time I turn around, there is another article or story on it’s fantastic explosion into our little worlds.

I was thinking about why these networks are such a huge success and one main thing came to mind. Loneliess. A starvation for [...]

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Are you stressed? How much do you have? Where does it live in your body? Stress factors can be physical, psychological, or spiritual according to Ayurveda, but the question is, “Is stress real?” Or do we create it through our interpretation and perception of the events around us? Think about it.
There is a woman (maybe [...]

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My new favorite book is Absolute Beauty by Pratima Raichur. I love it sooho much! Below is an excerpt from the book, about emotional issues linking to physical imbalances. I keep reading over and over because it makes total sense! And now I want to discover all sorts of emotional correlations with physical ailments…totally fascinating. [...]

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Spring is a natural time to cleanse our our bodies, our homes, our minds, but don’t forget about emotions. Stale, negative emotions can lodge themselves in our psyche, which lodges them in our subtle channels, which then lodges them in our bodies! Everything is connected. By negative, I mean emotions like envy, worry, jealousy, fear, [...]

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Ok. I cannot help but see the effects of what’s going on in our economy (I’m sorry if this seems a bit angry, but Ayurveda says, “do not resist your urges”). I work in creative staffing and damn if I don’t see several people a day that who are absolutely talented and skilled in everyway [...]

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Oh my. There are few things worse than a migraine. If you have had them, you know they are excruciatingly painful. And really, your body is incapacitating you on purpose because it cannot handle any more. I was at a seminar taught by Dr. Lad in October; this is what I have in my notes:

Our [...]

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I was doing some studies tonight and this is a great little excerpt from Dr. Vasant Lad’s book, The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies.

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(In case you’ve missed them: Nutrition1 and Nutrition 2)

The body’s internal digestive fire is called our agni. When agni funtions properly, whatever we have eaten gets digested and absorbed by the body. Then the body eliminates waste. Pretty simple. However, when doshas are imbalanced due to lifestyle, diet, negative emotions, etc., agni becomes weakened or [...]

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