It is a common theme in any area of health research — lifestyle makes a big difference. From getting enough sleep and eating your veggies, to managing your stress well and staying socially connected, these factors influence our health in the long run. As we are moving into a new year this is usually the […]
Category Archives: HEALTH & WELLNESS
Releasing the Past with EFT
There’s a popular saying that perhaps you’ve heard before: “Your issues are in your tissues.” What a beautifully concise way to describe the human condition. All of us, through no fault of our own, are carrying the past around inside our bodies. Painful things happen throughout our lives, and these events leave imprints in our […]
Pranayama: The Yoga Of Breath; Power To The Peaceful
BKS Iyengar, the legendary yoga master, in his 93rd year in Pune India, describes prana as the breath of life of all beings in the Universe. We are all born into prana and when we die our individual breath merges with the cosmic breath. But how is one able to approach the invisible and mysterious […]
Bringing Mindfulness to Eating
Being alive during a time of overwhelming planetary crises can sometimes mean waking up with existential angst. At these times, I always come back to how I can be most useful in the world; and then mundane reality reminds me I have to eat or else I’ll have no energy to be of use to […]
An Interesting Case: Tooth Erosion
The 22 year old man in my dental chair had all the signs of a specific condition. He had severe erosion of the inside surfaces of his upper front teeth. Almost a third of his enamel had been eroded away. I had seen young women patients with the condition I was tentatively diagnosing in my […]