Entries from Healthy Living DIY tagged with 'health'
The Energy of Fighting Disease
There's a pervasive belief in our culture that it is a good idea to fight disease. It's part of a larger belief that it's a good idea to fight against things you don't like. To the greatest extent possible, I...
Health Effects of Chronic Low-Level Stress
Usually when we think of stress, we think of the big "stress bombs." Significant life events that throw us over the edge. These events, such as death of a close family member, moving, change of job, etc, are indeed part...
Are You Average?
Average. I've been thinking about it a lot lately. How about you? Where in your life ARE you "set" on average (statistically speaking)? Where are you not? Where in your life would you LIKE to be average (statistically speaking)? Where...
Health Awareness and Your Personal Operating System
Your personal computer has an operating system. So do you! It's easy to put a name on your computer's operating system. Perhaps it is called something like "XP" or "Vista." Every now and then, your PC's operating system is due...
Got the "How-To Blues?" 5 Tips to Get Unstuck.
So exactly how am I supposed to do that? It's a question we all seem to ask from time to time. You know pretty much what you want. But the route to get there is not at all clear. You...
Fresh Food Has More Chi?
Food Energy affects every one of us every single day. Several years ago, I embarked upon a health-promoting journey that include answering the question "What should I eat to be healthy?" Of course good health involves more than simply what...
Health Affirmations: 3 Opportunities for Success
Affirmations are the words we use to make things "firm" in the world. Words have active creative power. They can be used intentionally to create positive change in the world -- including enhancing your state of health. In this article,...
Health and Language
Health and language -- nearly inseparable! At least that's my take on things. How you speak -- both in the privacy of your own mind and audibly in the outside world -- has an undeniable impact on health. Here's the...
7 Reasons to Love Local Foods
This morning's New York Times shares a rather frightening shopper's experiment regarding the traceability of our food supply. A couple years ago I publicly speculated about trying to figure out where the Jolly Green Guy gets his peas. Well it...
Say Yes to Health -- 3 Tips
Do you resist optimal health? Most of us do. It's true! Much as we try to create ourselves as "health magnets," we often fall just a teeny bit short of the mark. Now that's not all bad news. In fact,...
Sleep and Self-Healing: 4 Tips
Self-healing. It's very common that someone facing a serious health challenge begins to look for means to bring their life back into balance. You may find it surprising that one of the first questions I ask of people in this...
You Are Getting Very Sleepy... And Healthy!
It's National Sleep Awareness Week! Hope you are catching your zzz's! Continuing our conversation about lifestyle "cures" associated with self-healing, today we'll explore sleep. Thanks to those readers who participated in our first informal sleep poll. And now it's time...
Affirmations and The Long Tail
Affirmations are generally thought of as positive statements that people make up to keep their minds focused on creating a desired change in their life. Yet the truth of the matter is that your entire "inside conversation" throughout the day...
Do you get "enough" sleep?
We're kind of in the middle of an idea here, and I thought you might like to participate. In the last couple of weeks, several people have submitted questions to my web form about self-healing. At the same time, I've...
Create Yourself as A Healing Magnet
Health is your natural state. Without even lifting a finger, you are whole and complete. Let's start from that place -- that wholeness is natural. If you're having health trouble, then, it only stands to reason that something has unintentionally...
Healing Guidance: When it Looks Like There's No Choice
Amber is at her wit's end and feeling awful. What a headache! Her boss is driving her nuts! As if that wasn't enough, her job is impossible. Sure things are tight, but how can ONE person (her) reasonably be expected...
Affirmations and Your Healthy Immune System
You know all about affirmations. They're positive statements you can keep in mind to stay focused on creating the outcome you desire. Affirmations are great for healing! Instead of dwelling on the problem, affirmations keep you squarely pointed in the...
Spoken Affirmations to Enhance Health
An affirmation is a positive statement you can use to keep your mind focused on creating an outcome you desire. So many of us, by default, tend to focus instead on what we don't want. If you'll take a moment...
Adopt a Resourceful State ... Take it Home
When you look around at the people you know, it's easy to see by looking who expresses health and vibrancy. We look for any number of factors, don't we? Sure, part of it is fitness. But whole health goes much...
Healing: That Old Familiar Feeling
You say you're up to some big changes in your life. Thinking different, acting different, being different. You've got to be. You've been feeling just awful lately. Drained. Lethargic. You know in your heart that you've got to get out...
Are You Paralyzed? (Part 1)
Meet Jane, an average young woman in her late 30's. Jane has two kids, a husband, and a demanding job. She's a great mom, a reliable employee, and a devoted wife. There's really only one place that Jane consistently falls...
Stress: Day to Day
We all know the medical consequences of stress by now, right? Heart disease, inefficient immunity leading to more colds & bugs (perhaps even cancer), obesity, etc. Let's face it, stress plays a role in nearly every known chronic or degenerative...
Headaches and Posture Case History
Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking with a small group of massage therapy students about one of my favorite topics -- how day-to-day "vibes" can manifest in the body as a health challenge. We spend a lot of time...
Manifesting Abundance
Manifesting Abundance. Strange topic for a healthy living article? Not the way I see it. Abundance can occur in any area of your life: abundant health, abundant relationships, abundant finances (the area most people probably thought of first), or abundant...
Healthy Environment - Healthy You
Healthy environment - healthy you. It's often as simple as that. (The idea's simple at least!) In our last two articles, we spoke first about looking around your life for areas where you can make a difference in what happens....
Health and the Disease Triangle
An article in the current issue of Organic Gardening magazine caught my attention. Yes, I'm avidly producing a garden this spring. But that's not the first thing that popped into my mind as I read. What I found really fascinating...
Healthy DIY and Pet Food
If you're lucky enough to be the caretaker of a dog or cat, I suspect you already have an idea about the topic of this article. Within the last several weeks, the US pet food industry has been turned upside...
Picking Perfect Produce
It's seed starting time in my neck of the woods. Just last weekend, the Eckert dining room table became host to several trays of germinating (I hope) seeds. We'll have tomatoes, cukes, and peppers, two kinds of basil, some annual...
Healing States: Courage
Courage. Another essential state for healing. A short while ago, we began a series of articles exploring different states that are helpful for healing, starting with the state of engagement. Today we'll explore the state we call courage. The word...
Life change and your default position
Let's continue our series on creating change in your life. You do want things to go more smoothly, don't you? At least in some area of your life. Even if 99% of your life is as good as things get,...
Good Friends - How to Empower Them
"What am I going to do about my friends?" When someone begins my Wellness Coaching program, this is one of the first questions they often ask. You see, sometimes people "bond" over unhealthy behavior. So the person taking that first,...
Is change painful?
It seems that the human brain is wired to perceive change as painful. At least that's what I'm told (waiting for the reference -- when it comes, I'll let you know.) Hard science aside, the perception is sound. Why else...
Communication and Health: Getting Heard
Communication is grand, isn't it? And since your actions, your state, and your posture often speak for you, sometimes you can get away without actually doing much when it comes to getting your point across. Other times, it's not so...
Keith Urban, Communication, and Addiction
Country singer Keith Urban and I, though we've never met, have something very important in common. We both share the opinion that healthy communication is a key ingredient in creating healthy lives. Mr. Urban, a Grammy-winning country singer, made what...
Stress and Your Collapsing Life
Our minds can be the world's greatest stress-factories, can't they? Over the years, I've become aware of one particular type of thinking that gets us into trouble with amazing consistency. The best way I can describe it is "collapsing your...
Stress and your immune system
Stress affects your immune system. We've bullied our bully topic considerably over the past few weeks. And still there are a few important points yet to make. When you, as a human being, are under the influence of a bully,...
Finding an elusive bully
I anticipate a couple of problems with the bully thread at this point. We'll take them up in the next two articles. For today: Finding an elusive bully. Here's the scenario. You're "stuck" in your life. You're frustrated that you...
Bully B-Gone, Part 2
Did you ever notice that there are certain people a bully won't go near? Whether we're talking about human bullies or selective events (like illness), some people seem to be more vulnerable than others. * One person attracts partner after...
The Bully in Your Life
Who, or what, is the bully in your life? How are you planning to deal with 'im (or her)? Over the past week or so, one of the discussion groups that I'm a part of has been having quite a...
Awareness and Commitment - A Healing Combination
Have you ever felt really frustrated about your health situation? A new client had felt poorly for years. Headaches, back problems, neck pain, the works. Now a ray of hope has come into her life. After her first therapy session,...
Expect Your Best Results
Do you consistently expect your best results? Do you intend them, hope for them, believe yourself entitled to them, or believe you deserve them? The English language can get complicated, can't it? Yet while it's obvious to most of us...
"Denial has no survival value"
So here I am, after having written a week's worth of short articles on the value of awareness in maintaining health here on the Healthy Living DIY blog ... And having written a somewhat longer article about a specific type...
Awareness Practice & Body Journey
Over the course of this week, if you've been following along, we've laid out the basics of a health-promoting awareness practice. If you're ready to take your health to the next level, you might want to consider creating a space...
Observe your actions
Something really interesting happens when I start talking body structure with a pain patient. Well, several things actually. Sometimes they jump into denial. We covered that yesterday. "I don't think my shoulders are tilted at all. I just can't see...
Denial. Not you, of course.
We've been talking about awareness. Specifically, about increasing it with the goal of enhanced health. Of course, there are certain things that get in the way of awareness. We've already talked about focus versus distraction. And about how the human...
I didn't change anything. How did this happen?
Awareness, remember? We've been talking about it the last couple of days. This is an awareness question that relates to health: "I didn't change anything. How did this happen?" The inspiration for today's article comes from a comment I overheard...
Awareness - Just what the doctor ordered!
Awareness. Deep. We certainly must agree that awareness is part of good health. After all, if you don't notice challenges and compromises to your system, you're not going to take the necessary steps to rectify them. And that could be...
Hunches and Health - Harness the Healing Power of Intuition
Enough beating around the bush. Developing, accessing, and learning to trust your intuition is one of the best things you can do to enhance your health. Bottom line. There are two ways of receiving this news, by the way. One...
Hopelessness To Possibility: Resolve Stress Through The Power of Questions
One of the biggest sources of stress in your life may be completely hidden. It's there all right, but you can't see it. It's a vague sense of hopelessness. I'm not talking about major depression -- a medical condition you'll...
I know what to do next, I just don't like it
Not much of a question, is it? This comment came in the other day. Twice. From two different people. "I know what I should be doing next. I just don't want to do it." As you've no doubt observed, one...
Fertile soil: your garden & your health
In this bountiful harvest season, I've been hanging out on the organic gardening forums. They're really hopping, too! Funny thing. Someone asks about a natural remedy for some problem or another. A bug, pest, or inadequate result. They're generally looking...
Tight, Taut, or Toned - The Scoop on Muscles
"We are to exercise to tighten and tone our muscles, but tightened muscles are our enemy - how can we have both?" Read that again. Isn't it a great question? I think so. I'd have to agree, it can get...
Didja get to the fair yet?
Hi. No question today. Just a little reminder, as I'm so fond of offering, to take a break and get outside to enjoy the summer. In North Dakota where I live, it's state fair time. I'm fortunate enough to live...
When people ignore what's wrong
Another great question! "I've been working on physical and emotional stuff of one sort of another for years. What happens to the people who don't face up to the challenge and make an effort to heal their lives?" It's a...
How to unblock that chi!
The question is chi: "If it's true that many health problems are caused (or partially caused) by blocked chi, could you explain chi and outline some beneficial ways to unblock chi?" The answer: sure! It's quite safe to agree that...
No-Fault Health Insurance - A New Trend?
Some of you may remember that back a few years ago (in the dark ages when newsletters were copied on paper and only delivered to one's local area) I wrote a feature article on my bright idea about no-fault health...
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