Growing older comes with many physical challenges. Muscles weaken, joints grow stiff and achy and seniors begin to feel shaky on their feet. Exercise is commonly recommended to help seniors stave off the physical changes of age, but many older adults are intimidated...
Putting together a holiday dinner party can be stressful from the second the invite is sent out to the moment the last guest leaves your home on the night of the party (when you still have to deal with cleanup). It’s a small wonder anxiety-prone people tend to avoid...
Mindfulness Meditation practice has its origin in centuries-old religious-spiritual practices. In recent decades in the West, this practice has been “cleansed” of its religious-spiritual roots for therapeutic use in clinical settings, and...
Research in recent decades concluded that older people who are more religious are better at coping with the stresses of aging, such as the diagnosis of a terminal illness, death of a spouse, or declines in physical functioning and generally have better health...
Productivity strategies can be quite helpful and do in fact result in greater productivity, but for many people something important is missing. Oliver Burkeman offers a refreshing view on this issue in a withering analysis of the time management schemes to which so...
I would like to balance our science-based articles on medicine with our wisdom-based articles on healing. Everyone must relearn the fact that they exist as their own best physicians. Every system of healing relies on the individual to care for themselves, while...
