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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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Irish Wisdom

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.” One of my favorite sayings, capturing Irish wisdom at its most basic level: laughter and good rest are the best cures. I say we take it a step further: instead of thinking of laughter and rest just in terms of cures […]

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Nature’s Sleeping Pill

Trouble falling asleep? Try the longest used, most trusted, powerful and reliable sleeping aid the world has to offer: sunsets. There is a magical power set deep in the warm hues of our majestic sunsets and using them to bookend your day can send your body the signals to start producing melatonin and slow everything […]

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When Good Kids Go Bad

“I just don’t understand why my child acts like this!” Oh to think how many parents have uttered a sentence like this over the years… Good Kids Gone Bad There are a million and a half things that influence kids’ behavior and demeanor. As a parent of two and the husband of a kindergarten teacher […]

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Why A Trainer Is Giving Up Working Out

I’ve been a trainer for 12 years. I’ve been working out consistently for about 15. I have preached exercise and working out that entire time. I can’t remember going more than two weeks without working out. It’s as much a part of me as anything else I can think of. Most people know me as […]

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Zzzzzzzzzz

“Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Going to bed early is good for your health, one of the main reasons why: Melatonin A powerful hormone the body depends on for entraining circadian rhythm in the body. Melatonin gets released from the onset of darkness until about midnight. Artificial […]

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In Case You Missed It

After many hours thinking, many hours typing and many times revising my thoughts, I did it: a post a day for the month of May. A great eye opening and educational journey. In the end I was able to share many of my thoughts and I’m happy I was able to spend the time and […]

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Working In

Rest Naturally Paul Chek has coined a wonderful concept: Working In. I love this. Let’s take a closer look… Working out = stress. Working in = recovery. Exercise literally means to exercise or remove energy from of the body. This can be great when the body has energy to give. If the body is running […]

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Follow The Sun

Rest Naturally & Connect The sun will guide you. Get up when it gets up, go down when it goes down. For thousands of years, this was the drill. Guided by the sun. Connected to the sun. Reliant on the sun. One with the sun. Then a hundred years ago, a guy named Edison forever […]

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