Your Brain and You Created inNewsletter Library,Mind-Body Connection You are the lucky owner of a magnificent piece of biological machinery – the human brain. Your brain is always on, performs lightning-fast calculations, and is a whiz at making connections between seemingly unrelated factors and observations. The only downside is that your brain didn’t come with…

Your Body – An Owner’s Manual Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips Wouldn’t it be great if your body came with an owner’s manual? You’d probably begin reading it around the age of seven or eight, and right away you would be able to start taking better care of your precious body. You would learn how you…

You Say It’s Your Birthday Created inNewsletter Library,Staying Young Let’s imagine that today is your birthday. One of the things you might do on or around your birthday is to take a look back at what you’ve accomplished in the year gone by. You might be glad at all the things you’ve done and a…

Yellow Light Go Very Fast Created inNewsletter Library,Pregnancy & Parenting In a classic scene in the classic 1984 movie Starman, the extraterrestrial Jeff Bridges tells the human Karen Allen that, yes, he does know how to drive. Starman has just blasted through a traffic light changing to red, other vehicles crashing in his wake. Jenny…

Will You be Coming? Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness An old cliche for getting to know someone in a new social situation entails asking, “What’s your sign?” The notion, of course, is that a simple identifier such as astrological sign would provide grounding for a potential relationship – romance, friendship, or even a new bowling partner. As…

What’s Your Sign? Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness “Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.” This truism is well-known in human potential circles and can often be heard at personal growth-and-development seminars. But the implications of this meaningful phrase are often ignored in our day-to-day activities and relationships. Sometimes we pretend that…

Viscoelasticity: The Hidden Ingredient Created inNewsletter Library,Injury Rehab & Prevention Most of us have experienced a painful bout of low back pain brought on by a seemingly innocuous movement such as bending over to pick up a pencil or a dropped set of keys. These painful episodes may last a couple of days or be…

Ups and Downs Created inNewsletter Library,Illness Prevention Is it possible that ups and downs with respect to our health and well-being are yet another reflection of the ebb and flow of all things? Aren’t ups and downs part of the natural process of life? If ups and downs are natural, should you really be concerned…

Turn Your Medicine Chest into a First-Aid Cabinet Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness Many people have medicine chests in their bathroom, small shelving units filled with bottles of pills, capsules, and tablets. Others, instead, have first-aid and personal grooming cabinets in their bathrooms, containing rows of bandages, tubes of antiseptic, rubbing alcohol, and adhesive tape, as well…