Health and Wellness Matters

Kinetic Fluidity

09.14.2011

Have you ever stumbled across a realization in one area of your life that unlocks the door to understanding in another? This can occur with relative frequency to the degree that you view your life holistically, rather than as a collection of compartments. Modern science conditions us to think reductively, to the point that our [...]

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Inner Strength and The Spirit of Victory

04.17.2011

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ~ Marcus Aurelius My eighteen year old cousin, Savannah Leigh Burns, was recently diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). Its onset was rather sudden and took Savannah and her family completely by surprise. The first two weeks in [...]

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A busy life

02.19.2011

“You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing.  What!  Is it nothing to be happy?  Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long?  Never in his life will he be so busy again.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762 Having had a chance to spend the entire day with my [...]

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A Change in Tactics

02.11.2011

An article in the recent Equus magazine entitled “The Deworming Revolution: A Change in Tactics” fascinated me as much for its implications to the horse world as for its similarity to the the challenge we face with the overuse of antibiotics in human medicine (for an intro to the MRSA dilemma see my post “Know [...]

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Mind moves matter, if you let it.

02.08.2011

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ~ Marcus Aurelius The practice of yoga is more challenging – and more rewarding – than it looks. One of the lessons I took home with my shaky legs and becalmed mind was that your mind can stand [...]

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Pathological Disbelief and Intellectual Terror

02.03.2011

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny…“  ~ Isaac Asimov One of the great obstacles to progress in scientific understanding was well described by Nobel Prize-winning Cambridge emeritus professor Brian Josephson as “pathological disbelief.” Josephson used the term [...]

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