Wellness

Visualize Your Way To Wellness

“What form of water do you want to be?”
Maddy, my acupuncturist was asking me to visualize myself as water.
 
I’m paraphrasing here, but she extrapolated along the lines of:
Choose the form of water you want to emulate. It can be vapor, steam, or a waterfall, a slowly moving stream, a bouncy river.
 
Whatever form of water speaks to you each day is the form you can be.
 
Maddy wanted me to take back control of my emotions and reactions. I’d had my ego bruised a few nights prior and was restless, disappointed, unclear.

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It’s Getting (Less) Hot in Here: Vegan and Pegan Diets Relieve Hot Flashes

The Vasomotor Villain Up to 75% of American middle-aged women report having hot flashes. In Western Medicine, this is understood to occur as estrogen levels decrease, which leads to vasodilation – the sudden widening of blood vessels – which then causes hot flashes. (I want to give a nod here to Traditional Chinese Medicine and

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