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Basic Steps to Start Your Inner Journey for Mind, Body and Soul
Have you ever wondered what is your purpose here on Earth? "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." -Aristotle Are you a little perplexed as to figuring out exactly what the most important keys to start your journey are? You're reading this because you are like countless others, looking for solutions to your unanswered questions that have ran through your mind for quite some time.
By Silena Le Beau8 years ago in Longevity
Why?
When I started high school I had my dreams and goals mapped out. I knew exactly what would happen, I had prepared for everything—'everything' being that my world would come together with not a single thing wrong and high school would be a breeze. I don't think I've ever been more wrong about something.
By Yasmine El-Khoury8 years ago in Longevity
Tomorrow Never Comes
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” It is one of the most famous quotes in the world, yet it is one we so easily forget. Humans are masters of excuses and procrastination. It can become so easy to sit back and say, “Oh, I can just get to it tomorrow.” However, when you fall into that habit, it is easy for “tomorrow” to never come.
By Vanessa Cherron Riser8 years ago in Longevity
Crohn's Disease and Pregnancy
I have a chronic illness, Crohn's Disease. It has been my greatest teacher over the years. I have learned so many lessons that I would not have had I not been so ill for so long. I have lost jobs and relationships because of my Crohn's and those too are lessons. Hey, not all lessons are easy, right?
By Jesekah Sanders8 years ago in Longevity
Essential Oils or OTC Medications?
I never thought the day would come when Advil, Tylenol, Midol and other pain suppressants would be removed from my diet. I only say diet because I suffer from severe migraines many times a week & treacherous cramps for about a week, every month, of course. I know I am not the only one.
By kaley holmes8 years ago in Longevity
Dear Diary
On the outside I am a 33-year-old mom, one who has an entire array of medical problems from R.A. to fibro, TMJ, psoriasis, plantar fasciitis, bone spurs, vertigo, blah blah blah…. Yuck, I am so tired of pills and doctors I could spit. That really isn’t the point, the point is that on the inside I am just that 18-year-old girl stuck in a body that is failing her wanting to jump around and play. You know I have been raising kids most of my life and I have been raising children that I call my own for about 12 years and each one is so different from the other. I truly believe that we think we can raise them all the same and sometimes fall prey to raising them in similar ways that we ourselves were raised. Trust me, that doesn’t always work.. In the beginning of those twelve years, I had so much fun with my step children, they worshipped me in many ways. I was still happy and able to swing, to run, to climb big trucks and pretend to speed down the highway in a chase from the police; I was able to play soccer and look for hidden keys in a jungle behind our townhouse or wherever my stepson wanted to adventure. He was always taking us on these big elaborate adventures to find missing treasures or hidden keys and it was the most amazing thing to be able to go on them with him. I was such an active mom, always baking, cooking, cleaning, playing.. Those are the things I miss the most but there is still something else I miss more, being happy. After my first biological son was born, I was on bed rest for some time, then I had to have my gall bladder removed, then my muscles and legs didn’t work too well. When I thought I was better, we decided to have another child. After that my health just seemed to get worse. I found out that I had fibro and arthritis which have always been in my life but not this bad either. My pregnancies had triggered my existing health issues to flare and increase. Well that’s pretty much what I was told anyway. After my boys were born, I was still a very active mom, very often anyone could find me bleaching floors or cooking with a baby on my hip, I also babysat quite a bit so it was nothing to find me with up to ten kids playing around me. No it wasn’t a daycare, most of them were related. I may have looked ok to everyone at that time but that is when it started building up, the pain was inside and I just hid it. I would cry in the shower or work at hiding my facial expressions to keep questions to a minimal.
By Tasheenia Lewis8 years ago in Longevity
Concussions
A bump on the head? Everyone said and believed is was no big deal. A kiss from mom, or putting ice on for a few minutes, or sitting down to relax to make everything better were the treatments for any and just about all injuries it seemed, including head injuries. This was the thinking in the early 2000s and earlier years, when parents, players and coaches never thought twice about a head injury. There weren't concussion protocols like there are today. So, where do you draw the line between a minor bump on the head and having a possible concussion? Are the concussion protocols today too much?
By Caitlin Welsh8 years ago in Longevity
Adding Green to Your Routine
Nature is a part of everyone's life, whether we make the conscious effort to make it or not. We need nature on a deep and fundamental level and unfortunately, over the centuries, we have alienated ourselves from nature and other living things. Humans build cities in a fashion that is detrimental to nature and disconnects us from it. Even our homes are often built the same way.
By Celina Campbell8 years ago in Longevity
Putting Yourself First
Life is demanding. It's as if every single aspect of it pries away any chance of remote tranquility. The constant need to be present and functioning at all times is draining. Obviously abandoning everything to achieve this dream of a "responsibility-free life" is unrealistic. But if there's one thing that can keep someone sane, it's spending time with yourself.
By Alexyss Panfile8 years ago in Longevity
Cheer Is Life?
When I was three years old, I went to one of my cousin's cheer competitions to watch her perform and from the second I walked into the arena I fell in love with cheer. I loved the atmosphere, people, the skills, the hard work, and most of all how cool it looked when they performed. After that competition I told my mom “I wanna do that.”
By Delaney Williams8 years ago in Longevity
Intermittent Fasting 101
The History of Eating Let’s backtrack a few years. More like 10,000 or so years, back to the dawn and ripening of our human civilization. For starters, we can agree that life back then was not near the glamour and advancement that life in the 21st century is today—not even close. Back then, the average life span was, on average, say twenty years. That's considering you weren't mauled by a Saber Tooth tiger or suddenly died from the common cold that, in today's world, is fixed in nearly two days with modern medicine. Clearly, life back then wasn't a walk in the park, nor was it pleasant in any shape or form. Nevertheless, we are still the same people on the insides, and in terms of our DNA structure and, more specifically, our metabolic functions. As a kid, I’m sure most of us were taught the famous "Darwin’s theory” and how, through natural selection and random variation, the genetic sequences cause us to, in a sense, "upgrade" our DNA and become more fit for survival. For the most part, this is true. Our evolution since the dawn of our civilization has made us a taller species, immune to many of the viruses and plagues that originally wiped out half of our population, a larger brain to body ratio (a sign of greater intelligence), and many others. Despite these changes in our genetic code, the one thing that has had little change since the start is our diet. Back in the early days of our species, we were hunter gatherers. Now you may be asking yourself why the f*** does that matter and why I’m talking a bunch of nonsense and when am I going to start talking about diet already. Well, this is where it comes from...
By Scott Taylor8 years ago in Longevity
