Inspiration für Dich und Deinen Wunschalltag
Ever had those times when those buggers in your nose were bugging you? When you kept wanting to pick your nose? Maybe you live in a dry climate and got that problem all year round or you find yourself in the dry season of late summer and fall, your nose dries up and you just want those babies outta there. Too bad that picking your nose isn’t socially acceptable. Grr. What to do? Some people turn towards the neti pot thinking that pouring salt water through the nose will clear it.
Whenever the seasons change I get a bit confused about what to eat and what activities to do. What I have done during the warm, long summer days doesn’t quite work anymore in the fall. It is clearly time to switch gears. Fall is marked by light, dry and mobile qualities. We call it Vata in Ayurveda. We talked about that a couple of weeks ago. Those dry, light, mobile qualities are not only reflected in nature but in our physiology. Our minds become more prone to mental disturban
Insufficient sleep is a public health epidemic. The US Center for Disease control reports that 35% of Americans do not get enough sleep and 38 fall asleep during the day unintentionally. Oh boy.The National Sleep Foundation reports that Americans think they sleep enough but ⅓ say their quality of sleep is poor. Good lord!!! As a nation we are under-rested, overstimulated and overwhelmed. The majority of people run around like mad chickens or have an internal attitude
How to make your kitchen a healing hub? Some people are totally into their kitchen, some others not at all. In Ayurveda, we consider the kitchen a healing hub for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being. The way someone keeps their kitchen shows how much emphasis there is in the household on nurturance, abundance and fullness. A while back a neighbor invited us over for a get-to-know-your-neighbor gathering. A very thoughtful invitation indeed. When I entered t
The other day I soaked my eyes in oil. But why in the world would I do such a kooky thing? Here it goes: The sense organs are your window to the world. Because you have senses you experience life. You taste, feel, see, touch and hear things. The sum total of everything you take in through the senses ultimately makes up your perception of life. The simplest way to realize the importance of sense organs is to imagine not having one. For today let’s stick
Earlier, lighter dinners… Superhighway to heaven In most American families dinner is the main meal of the day. It is either heavy or late, in some cases both. If you think that’s not you, pause and think again.… 90% of my clients agree it applies to them but only after pausing and contemplating. First, let’s define heavy and late. Late iIs anything past 6 pm, that includes also a late evening snack. Sooooory!!! Heavy can be in three ways: 1
The message of the mainstream media has sunk is Diet is important to our health. It can make us fat or skinny. It can bring radiant health or cause heart disease (or cancer, or dementia, or xyz). It can make us energetic or lethargic. Diet is important at some level. But have you ever stopped and deeply thought about the question what actually happens to food in your body and why diet is such a key component? Here is my answer to that question. Let’s start with an equa
The universe functions in a rhythm. Align with that rhythm and feel well. Consistently ignore that rhythm and feel dis-ease. Having a good night’s sleep is one of those things that is essential to our well-being. Sleep well and you are in a good mood, upbeat, productive, alive. Don’t have it and you are likely to be crabby, unfocused, exhausted unhappy. In fact in Ayurveda, sleep is one of the three pillars of health which means it is essential for a heal
If you are a health conscious individual you are likely trying your best to eat right, exercise well, and take the right vitamins and herbs. One day you hear new research on the radio about vitamin X and food Z and you think “I should probably eat more of that too. They say it’s supposed to be good for ya, so it’s gotta be good for me too!” At first sight a good idea. I thought this myself before many times many years ago before studying all that nutrition and lifestyle stu
