Mental Health
Aging to Perfection: Part 1 - Maintaining Functional Capacity
My patients often say to me “It’s hell getting old.” My reply is always the same, “It beats the alternative!” Growing old is not for the faint of heart. This is the first of a two part post called Aging to Perfection. Part 1 is about how to maintain functional capacity and Part 2 is about wisdom.
Improving Health with Balance or As the Pendulum Swings
If there is a seed from which all health and wellness grows it is balance. If there is root cause for most of the unhappiness and dis-ease we experience in our lives, it is lack of balance. A pendulum is a simple object possessing powerful forces of nature that you can use to bring your life into a more comfortable and healthy balance. Read on and I’ll explain how.
Mental Health, Inner Peace: Are You in Your Right Mind?
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist (brain specialist) who suffered a massive stroke in 1996. After surviving brain surgery and 8 years of rehab, she says she decided to come back so she could share what she learned with the rest of us. It seems Dr. Taylor has pinpointed the exact location and established an enduring connection to the very seat of mental health, mental resilience and inner peace. And where IS this fountain of mental and spiritual of health? Ironically and poetically - it is in our right minds (brains). Here is an 19 minute video of a talk she gave at TED telling the story of what happened and what she learned.
