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“Sleep is the best meditation.” — Dalai Lama Sleep is restful and restorative but it’s also an active process in our bodies that affects every system, organ, and tissue from the brain, heart, and lungs to metabolism, immune function,…
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Do you ever feel as if you’ve flunked meditation? I have tried meditation on and off for twenty years, and I’ve never been able to stick with it. Everyone I know who meditates swears by it and tells me they…
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By Dr. Charles Silberstein with Laura Roosevelt. In good psychotherapy, we feel listened to, understood without judgment, and cared for. In doing so, it helps us feel safer, kinder, wiser, and happier. With the help of cognitive and behavioral tools,…
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Sitting is slowly undermining our health. What’s wrong with sitting? One in four Americans spends eight to eleven hours a day sitting. This constitutes a sedentary lifestyle, whether or not we work out every day. Sadly, working out for an…
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Are you an Early Bird or a Night Owl? Know your inner clock. The body has a natural time-keeping system that it uses to manage various systems. Biological rhythm is a term often used interchangeably with circadian rhythm. These rhythms…
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Better than counting sheep. I am getting so accomplished at sorting out my streaming preferences that I can add a new category: relaxing, possibly amusing, TV series that make me happy and send me off to sleep with no fears…
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Are your prescriptions making you feel worse? It has become increasingly clear that we each need to be our own health care advocate to the best of our ability. In this time of specialization, your general practitioner might not know…
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“Music can change the world because it can change people.” Bono I love music, and the right song can have me dancing around my kitchen or collapsed in tears over a sad memory. Many people listen to music to fall…
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Spending time on the ground adds strength, flexibility, and longevity. In the large scheme of things, the chair is a relatively recent invention. Sitting in a chair stretches out our glutes and underutilizes them until they are inactive and weak. …
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