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5 Benefits of Raising Kids with Pets
by Kara Venus – New England

Harper and Her Dogs

There are so many benefits to raising fur babies alongside human babies. According to The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, “A child who learns to care for an animal, and treat it kindly and patiently, may get invaluable training in learning to treat people the same way”. In addition, seventy percent of U.S. […]

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Accessing Unity Consciousness
by Milissa Castanza Seymour – Bethpage, NY

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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. ~Lao Tzu Here’s a brief Chopra meditation: Sit comfortably. Close your eyes. Focus on your breath. Ask yourself, “Who am I?” State the question a few times, then let it go. The answer will eventually come in your practice, without thought. Sit in […]

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Inspiration Can Come From Life’s Adversity
by Kristian James – Los Angeles, CA

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this world. ~ Robin Williams Dead Poets Society Robin Williams’ quote has always stuck with me because words and messages can alter someone’s day from being sad to happy even if for a minute. I have taken the negatives in my life and learned […]

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Another Leap Forward in Dental Healing: Dental Demise
by Jeffrey Etess, DMD, NMD, IBDM

In my more than twenty-five years practicing dentistry, I continue to see the same pattern of dental demise: Person gets silver filling, person gets larger white filling, person graduates to crown, person needs root canal, root canal fails, and ultimately, receives dental implant. It DOES NOT need to be this way. The first thing to […]

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Gum Health … to Go!
by Jimmy Kilimitzoglou, DDS, FACD, FPFA, DABOI, MAGD, FAAID, FICOI

Most of you have read a few things about gum disease. Some of you have seen a gum specialist or periodontist for a consultation or treatment. I have written articles about traditional treatment, alternative, biomimetic, minimally invasive, biological, and advanced, high tech treatment. But, what about supplemental support? Our bodies have an innate ability to […]

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What’s REALLY Behind All the Polarization?
by Cher Gilmore

Everybody’s talking about it, journalists are writing about it, and all kinds of explanations are being offered for the extreme divisions we’re seeing in many forms today … Men versus women, immigrants versus citizens of their adoptive country, reactionaries versus progressives, country versus city dwellers, free-marketers versus those demanding social safety nets, the ultra-wealthy versus […]

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Plateau
by Andrea Garvey – South Carolina

yoga pose

As we work though our yoga practice, there are times when we feel we have reached a plateau – that place where everything seems to have leveled out and not much is happening. It may frustrate us and so we try even harder and then may become even more frustrated when we don’t see the […]

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How YOU Make the World a Better Place
by Owen Waters

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One of the mysteries of quantum physics today is the fact that subatomic particles communicate with each other at speeds far greater than the speed of light. Apparently they weren’t listening to Einstein when he said that they’re not supposed to be able to do that. This phenomenon came to light in 1982 at the […]

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The Simple Practice of Love – Zen and Relationships
by Brenda Shoshanna

Heart drawn in the sand

We all want love, are hungry for connection and recognition. We’re all secretly waiting for the perfect relationship, the chance to be accepted just as we are. But for many of us, relationships are difficult to find, difficult to keep and difficult to enjoy. We’re afraid of being rejected or hurt, or losing the love […]

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Pleasure is Our True Nature
by Julia Paulette Hollenbery

Women in bath

We are hardwired from birth for sexual pleasure. Dr. Christiane Northrup, women’s health expert Beauty is truth, truth beauty John Keats, physician and poet Soul is the source of the erotic Roger Housden, spiritual writer Pleasure is our true nature. What if pleasure is already here, intrinsic to our life, and simply waiting for us […]

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