Archive for category Connect

Functional Fitness

In today’s world of health, fitness and exercise, one of the most trendy words is “functional.” What is functional exercise/fitness? In general it means doing activities in your workout that are considered transferable to regular life activities and situations. So, although anything can really fit into this realm, the more an exercise mimics an everyday […]

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A Little Experiment

I’d like you to do a little experiment with me. It’s simple, easy and only takes a minute but it can show you how much we miss out on every single day. Take one shoe off and walk around. Walk around the house. Walk outside. Feel the difference between shoe and bare foot. Particularly if […]

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Don’t Wash Away Your Vitamin D

Summer is almost upon us and the opportunity to spend some good time in the sun and make some vitamin D is coming. Just a few thoughts: Sunscreen prevents vitamin D. If you wear sunscreen, the sun rays don’t make it to your skin and you don’t make vitamin D. So no matter how much […]

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Top 5 Health Tips

I recently gave this list to someone and thought it would be nice to share… Bare 5 Top Health Tips 1. Turn off the lights. After the sun goes down, turn off the bright lights. You don’t have to go to sleep but dim the lights. Lamps and counter lights are fine, as is firelight […]

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Get Connected

Wrapping up my series on the craving for connection, let’s get right down to it. If our bodies are craving natural stimulus and behaviors, how do we reconnect in our modern, artificial world? The answer is simple: in any and every ay we can. Connection is all around us and the more we can seek […]

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Missing Old Friends

**In preparing to wrap up my series on craving for connection, I realized I bypassed a big one that deserves its own little post… Old Friends The sound of an old friend’s voice. A handshake, a hug, the gleam in their eye and the joy in their smile. Reconnecting with an old friend is just […]

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Nature’s Reset

Nature anchors human functions. When broken, frozen, malfunctioning or erratic, nature can reset the human system. This has been known for thousands of years. My guess is that humans have known of the “natural reset button” for most of our existence, just as all creatures inherently and instinctually know it. The earth/world/nature will center/heal/empower you. […]

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Foundational Cravings

A few days ago, we looked at the basics of The Craving. The body’s yearning for familiarity, it’s native language. The body’s craving for connection to the natural world… Sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. The brain uses these mediums to absorb information that it bases our biology on and all of our adaptations to […]

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The Craving

Craving: To want strongly as to satisfy an appetite. To long for, to yearn. Just the other day around dinner time my wife and I turned to each other and agreed we just felt like eating steak. We were craving a hunk of tasty, filling and nourishing animal flesh. In a very primal sense, our […]

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Lost In A Foreign Land

Imagine you’re lost in a foreign country, wandering the streets of a bustling city. All around you are strange sounds and voices speaking a language you have no familiarity with. You feel uncertain, anxious and just plain lost. Searching for something you recognize, something familiar, something to make you feel welcome and safe. You are […]

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