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  • 9 Healthy Foods to Improve Your Mood
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] What food should we be eating? Which foods should we avoid? What will happen to us if we indulge in our favorite foods? Eat this healthy food. Avoid eating this food. You will gain weight if you eat this. There is too much fat, sugar, salt, or empty calories in this food. We have all heard so many warnings against eating so many foods that many of us have lost the pure joy of eating food that makes us feel good.


  • 7 Foods to Avoid Eating - And What to Eat Instead
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] What foods should we be eating to maintain and improve our health? What food should we avoid eating? Many of us continue to read and hear conflicting reports and confusing information about food. An interesting article provided by Prevention appeared as an aol health report. Even if you decide to shop for only organic and home grown fruits and vegetables, grass-fed beef, and wild Alaska salmon, what happens when you eat out at a restaurant or are invited for dinner at your friend or relative's home?


  • Pain Management For Chinese Immigrants Suffering From Cancer and Other Illnesses
    [Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Pain is pain is pain. Right. Wrong, if you are referring to pain among Chinese immigrants suffering from cancer and other debilitating physical illnesses. In this land of opportunity and free will, this population is often restricted by their own cultural, psychological and family-related beliefs as well as attitudes imposed upon them due to their sociodemographic status. Solutions are simple but not easy.


  • Growth of Damaged Or Severed Body Parts
    [Health-and-Fitness:Healing-Arts] Imagine losing a finger, a toe or even and arm or a leg - and voila - that body part is able to grow back. Does that seem farfetched or even impossible? Well, some exciting new developments are creating the possibility for damaged body parts to be regrown.


  • African Americans May Not Seek Pain Managment For Cancer
    [Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Social work studies conducted in the 1960's and 1970's indicated that patients would tend to stay in treatment longer if the treating health care practitioners either looked like them or showed real empathy for their plight. In addition, historically, pain management has not been seen as a science nor as an urgent treatment necessity. Patients may not feel that they trust their provider. The health environment may be disrespectful or exhibit downright discrimination. Adequate information and resources may not be readily available. But this inequity is gradually being addressed by greater cultural sensitivity among healthcare professionals and other concerned groups.


  • American Indian Health Crisis - Diabetes, Alcoholism and Depression
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] "Our nation's first inhabitants [American Indians] are suffering from among the worst health disparities in the world, and that shouldn't be acceptable to anyone," says Donald Warne, MD, MPH, in his article in the Winter 2008 edition of The Pain Practitioner, the official Journal of the American Academy of Pain Management. "In Arizona, the average age of death is 72.2 for the general population and 54.7 for AIs. This should be front page news. This should be considered a crisis. This should be considered as unacceptable in this nation."


  • Thanksgiving Dinner - How Many Calories and How Nutritious?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you are one of the very many Americans who have indulged in a typical high calorie, high sodium, high fat, high carbohydrate and low fiber Thanksgiving meal, do not be disheartened. Spending quality time with family and friends is sometimes just as important as eating nutritious food and exercising your body.


  • Memory - Use Familiarity to Create Success
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Remember that old familiar saying, "Out of sight, out of mind?" and the opposite saying, "Familiarity breeds contempt?" Well, in this modern world of online social networking and building a powerfully successful online business, it seems that the first saying holds the most relevance. On the web, in the social networking world, familiarity breeds income and often unimaginable success.


  • Divorce and Custody Battles in the Military
    [Relationships:Divorce] Dear John letters are not rare among military personnel. Custody battles and divorce are becoming more prevalent among military families. Spouses and intimate partners may not be happy living and functioning alone, separated by huge distances, having all the responsibility for child care, and not enjoying the romantic and intimate aspects of what they probably wanted in a marriage. A dissatisfied or estranged spouse may fight for custody of the the child or children.


  • Living Longer - 13 Ways to Increase Your Longevity
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Illness, disease, medications, and a restricted quality of life affect so many people in our society, particularly as they age. Yes, some ailments are hereditary and may not be easily avoided. But many of the ailments afflicting our population may be resulting from stress, dietary factors, lack of exercise, poor sleep and rest habits, and other possibly preventable causes. A team of researchers interviewed local islanders living in Ikaria, studied the environment and the terrain, asked about the diets and activities of the inhabitants, and developed a list of 13 possible factors that could account for the health and longevity of these people.


  • Chaga - King of Herbs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Have you heard of Chaga? My introduction to this amazing healing extract began as a result of an invitation to a local meeting that is held every Monday evening in Delray Beach, Florida, about 1/2 hour from my home. I originally thought I was attending a local networking meeting to discuss various business possibilities and I was quite excited at the prospect.


  • Red Wine May Improve Women's Sex Drive
    [Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Nutritionists, physicians and wellness researchers have been touting the many health benefits of red wine for quite some time. It has been suggested that it may be helpful in preventing some forms of cancer, including breast cancer, and can actually help one to think more clearly. It seems that it is the antioxidants found in this beverage, most noted being Resveratrol, might be a key ingredient that may help prevent blood vessel damage, reduce "bad" cholesterol, and even prevent blood clots.


  • Migraines - Can a New Facelift Procedure Actually Eliminate Pain?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Headaches-Migraines] Migraine headaches haunt millions of people every day. Many are forced to rely upon strong medications, that may or may not alleviate the problems. Some turn to alternative therapies such a massage and chiropractic, or even craniosacral therapy. Others go to counseling to talk about the emotional problems and intensive thought processes which may trigger a migraine episode or exacerbate the pain and intensity of the experience.


  • Weight Loss Tips For Summer Fitness
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you are determined to lose weight, you will! Sometimes, one these seemingly silly ways to lose weight can be exactly what you need to jump start yourself into really following a weight loss diet regime. Here's to finding your own way, now, so that you can feel proud of yourself and enjoy your slender body in the months to come.


  • Never Been Kissed - An Overnight Sensation After Only 35 Years
    [Self-Improvement:Success] How many of you would persist and persist, after rejections, derisions, condescending glances and attitudes? This new singing sensation, Susan Boyle, has uncovered a human weakness that so many of us possess in this so-called civilized world. We have such pre-conceived ideas about outward appearance, intelligence, talent, beauty and success, that we often cannot see the forest for the trees. Someone, anyone, who does not fit our preconceived idea of what is good, beautiful, worthwhile, etc., can be brutally disregarded, ostracized and barred from untold opportunities...


  • Love at First Sight
    [Relationships:Love] It was virtual love at first sight. Joe Stravisky, a very tall (over 7 feet), regal and sexy man, was wearing "black, ornamented, dazzling boots" that caught Heart Wishbringer by surprise. This porcelain-skinned beauty with white hair or black hair depending on her mood, was thunderstruck and instantly in love. From the moment these two adventurers met, they spent the next three weeks together. And after three glorious weeks together, they said their marriage vows and were married.


  • Infidelity, Loving Relationships and Returning Veterans
    [Relationships:Affairs] What would it be like for you to be in love with, involved with, and/or married to a soldier, a man or woman who is enlisted in the armed forces in the army, navy, marines, air force, or another venue? What if your partner was with you every day and you shared wonderful romantic days and nights, and then, suddenly, the letter came. "Report for overseas duty on the following date...." How would you handle the situation?


  • Pain Treatment - Different For Diabetes, Herpes Zoster and HIV
    [Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Pain is pain is pain. Right? No, not quite right. At least 3 million Americans suffer from some form of neuropathic pain, but from different causes. More than half of these pain sufferers have an auto-immune disease such as herpes zoster, diabetes or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).


  • Fat Lovers Beware!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Are you one of those people who love to eat meals out at restaurants several times every week? Do you justify it by saying that the prices are quite reasonable and there are lots of healthy choices? And are you consciously making healthy choices? You may honestly believe that you are eating healthy food but fat lovers beware! There is so much unconscionable fat in some of the most appealing and even innocent-looking food.


  • Healing Love - How to Heal and Love Freely
    [Relationships:Love] Love is a precious gift, a healing potential, and often an elusive, sought after illusion. To maintain our own sense of control and equilibrium, we can develop the strength of character and personal resolve to love deeply and fully even without receiving apparent love in return, knowing that there is abundant love for everyone. The current object of our desire may not be able to provide the love we want at this moment in time. If we remain silent inside, peaceful, accepting and loving of our self and others, love will come to us in due time - perhaps from another and unexpected source.


  • Love is the Answer - What is the Question?
    [Relationships:Love] If you knew you had all the love you could possibly want, how might you handle a problem in one of your current relationships, with your finances or your career, with one of your family members, or a problem with your self-esteem, self-acceptance, appearance, or health? It becomes a lot easier to cope with life's inevitable struggles when you know you are loved.


  • Winning Or Losing, Winning is Always Better - Right?
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Whether you believe it or not in the moment, losing can sometimes be a blessing in disguise, but you can't possibly know that until some later point in your life. When you look back, months or years later, you may realize that what had appeared to be a terrible loss was actually the stimulus that brought you into a totally new experience - new career, new lover, new environment, new friends, new perspective. If nothing else, losing offers us the opportunity to be more compassionate and less judgmental of others.


  • Relationship Success - Do You Have What it Takes?
    [Relationships:Communication] Relationship success is not easily accomplished. What appears to be wonderful at the beginning can deteriorate rapidly if you haven't learned what it takes to create relationship success and how to communicate with love. Everybody is just looking to be understood, accepted and loved - without being required to change anything at all. We all want to keep things exactly as they are - and then add a person into our life who will just fit in, so that we don't have to change anything. Successful relationships require communication and emotional skills that most of us have not learned. Yet there is so much help and guidance available if you only reach out to take advantage of what is available.


  • Love is a Crime - Older Women With Underage Boys
    [Relationships:Sexuality] Something disturbing is happening. Women, educated women, are risking their careers, their reputation, their freedom and their sense of self by engaging in illicit sexual activities with a minor male. But it is not just that the male is below the age of consent. It is also the fact that these women are teachers, working in a role that is supposed to be helping, teaching and guiding their younger students.


  • Relationship Problems, Emotional Upsets and You
    [Relationships:Conflict] Why bother to get close to someone if it's only going to cause suffering and unhappiness? And why bother to have friends if we can't count on their unbiased wisdom in our times of need? To me the solution is: Ask not what your relationship can do for you, but what you can do for your relationship? How would your relationship change if you practiced this principle? When your partner is not behaving "appropriately" and is hurting you unnecessarily, what would happen if you applied this new way of thinking? How might you respond in any relationship problem if your first concern is what you can do for your relationship, rather than what the relationship is doing or not doing for you?


  • Succeeding in Business But Losing Your Love Life? Balance Your Life Now!
    [Relationships:Conflict] In this 21st century, and now even more so during this economic downturn, many of us are spending more time focused on business and less time smelling the roses, enjoying companionship, or relaxing with our loved ones. And this is taking a toll on our relationships. If you have been expecting your partner to be supportive, to understand what you are attempting to accomplish, and to be there when you feel you have reached your goals, think again. Workaholism and lack of nurturing in a relationship will almost inevitably lead to relationship disaster. Now is the time to take stock and get a handle on your life.


  • Clean Teeth May Improve Your Brain
    [Health-and-Fitness:Dental-Care] If you've been putting off that dreaded visit to your local dentist or if you've had pain and bleeding gums for awhile and you think that's just because you have more sensitive gums, or some such incorrect assessment - think again. Recent research indicates that taking care of your teeth may help to preserve your health in ways that you do not realize, perhaps even beyond this recent research about Alzheimer's.


  • Money Talks - Even When it Comes to Losing Weight
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you have read anything about The Secret and The Law of Attraction, you know that you tend to attract into your life what you believe. If you believe you will lose weight, you will. Just by believing and even visualizing that it is so, you can recreate that perfectly slim and toned bikini body or build up that contest ready muscular workout body, But what you believe is only part of the equation. Well, maybe, just maybe, you can actually forget about dieting, forget about having to believe strongly that you can do it.


  • Develop a Spiritual Perspective and Know That All is Well
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Just for today, try adding a spiritual consciousness into your day. Add some spiritual thoughts to those seemingly insurmountable problems or incorrigible people at your office. Add some spiritual thoughts as you contemplate the unwanted words and behaviors of your most intimate partners or your beloved but frustrating family members. Just for today, let go of worries, fears and doubts. Continue your work and your relationships with a sense of trust that all will be as it should be, all is well.


  • Your Blood Pressure Needs Friends
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Your blood pressure needs friends. Without friendly contact and social banter, your blood pressure may increase regardless of other healthy lifestyle factors. Studies have shown that when people feel lonely, not only are they sad and tearful and depressed, but they also tend to have higher levels of blood pressure. So, spending too much time alone without other people to share your good and bad times, can physically affect your blood vessels and your heart.


  • Are You Living With Integrity, True to Your Own Core Values?
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Are you living with integrity, true to your own core values? Do you even know what your core values are? Have you ever taken the time to sit and self-reflect about what matters most to you? You only have this one life and it goes by so quickly. Every day requires choices and decisions. Those decisions can be based on your core values or not. Each time you choose to honor your own core values, you create stronger harmony in your mind, body and spirit. Every time you veer away from your own values, you cause a small wedge in your own holistic well being.


  • Are You Ready to Change Your Relationships Or Your Life?
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Why are some people able to make desired changes while others seem hell bent on complaining and staying put? What is the difference? What is the quality, attitude, or approach that allows a determined person to move forward? What is the quality, attitude, or approach that keeps another person stuck in the muck of their own undesired circumstances? Change is not as easy as we would like to think it is. Every great achievement has begun with small, seemingly inconsequential steps. Start taking small steps today and tomorrow and the next day. Before you know it, your life and circumstances will be changing and you may not even realize that it is happening.


  • Are You Stressed? How Do You Know and What Can You Do About It?
    [Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] The human body doesn't differentiate been small and large stresses. Your body also doesn't know the difference between stress from positive life events, eustress, or stress from unwanted or negative life events, distress. To the body, stress is stress. However,our body does require a certain amount of stress to function properly. Your body functions by responding and adjusting to all sorts of stressors. You can be so physically stressed so often that you don't even realize it. The effects of stress upon your entire life can take many different forms depending upon your unique personality type and your current life circumstances.


  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Have They Helped You Heal?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Healing-Arts] Have you ever tried some form of complementary and/or alternative medicine to assist your own healing process? It seems that 38 percent of adults and 12 percent of children in the U.S. have used some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), according to a 2007 government study, the 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). This is a study repeated every year. Thousands of Americans are surveyed about their health and illness experiences and the use of 36 different types of CAM therapies, 10 types that require a provider and 29 types of self-provided therapies, e.g., herbs and aromatherapy.


  • Are You Destined to Become a Billionaire? Find Out What it Takes!
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Are you destined to become A billionaire? Find out what it took to create 657 self-made billionaires. On Wednesday, April 1, 2009, Forbes.com revealed some interesting and even startling information about the education, skills, attributes, attitudes and experience that are representative of people who have become billionaires.


  • Is Your Life Calling Out For Help? Are Your Relationships Begging For Counseling?
    [Self-Improvement] Is your life calling out for help? Are your relationships begging for counseling? For the past few months, with the economy taking a downturn and people losing money and possessions, many of us have put a halt to spending money. Or it would seem that way.


  • Health and Wellness - Walk Backward to Strengthen Your Knees
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Want to learn a new way to take pressure off your knees but continue to get heart healthy aerobic exercise? Try walking backwards. It puts less strain on your patellofemoral joint, the joint that connects your kneecap to your thigh bone. If you like to skate, try skating backwards - but don't do this if you are a complete novice. Falling could certainly defeat the whole purpose.


  • Health and Wellness - Vitamin D is More Important For Your Health Than You Think!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Vitamin D is more important for your health than you think! Previous research linked low vitamin D to the rare disease, Rickets, in children, and to lower bone density and teeth problems in adults. Recent research reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine, however, has begun to link inadequate vitamin D to some major health problems, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, infection, osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity and weight gain, parathyroid problems, immune function, and overall health and well being.


  • Magic Beans That Can Improve Your Health - Coffee - Can You Believe It?
    [Food-and-Drink:Coffee] Researchers are discovering some magical properties in coffee: that ordinary, delightfully arousing morning cup of caffeine filled coffee that at least 54% of Americans can't start their days without. Can you believe it? Coffee, a drink that recently seemed to be inferior to green tea and thought of as unhealthy for years, has been given a clean bill of health. And not just one cup!


  • Eat to Be Healthy - Red Meat and Processed Meat Can Be Deadly
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Do you enjoy a good steak, a hefty hamburger and a big hotdog? Your arteries, your heart, your eyes, and your immune system may wish you had made other choices. It seems that high intake of red and processed meat can be deadly. Red and Processed Meat Intake is linked to higher mortality rates from cancer and cardiovascular disease as well increased risk of age related macular degeneration, retinal damage in the eyes. Chicken seems to be inversely related to macular degeneration, according to a recent Australian study, while eating fish was not associated with macular degeneration.


  • Creating Love in Lasting Relationships - Do You Know How?
    [Relationships:Love] Do you believe you can actually create love in your relationships - or - do you believe you just have to be lucky? And what does being lucky mean to you? Does it mean you have to choose the right partner who is a naturally loving person that knows how to treat you - or - does it mean you have to be born into the proper family with the proper upbringing to learn proper love skills? Love is a natural inborn instinct, a natural emotion, a feeling, a thought, an experience, an attitude, and even a belief.


  • Relationship Marketing - How Do You Measure Up?
    [Relationships:Enhancement] Have your thought about the way you market yourself in your relationships? What if you applied some powerful, proven marketing strategies to the way you approach your relationships? Would that make a difference in the way you attract new potential partners? Would it change the way you treat your current partner's? This article offers some insight into this unique way of approaching love and relationships.


  • Friends Can Affect Your Diet and Your Weight
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Be careful about who you choose to spend you time with. Your friends and intimate partners can directly and indirectly affect your health, your diet and personal will power to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Spending time with a friend affects your five senses and also alters the synapses in your brain. If you spend a lot of time with someone who is watching his or her weight, exercising and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, you are more likely to imitate that behavior. On the other hand, if you spend a lot of time with an overeater with a generally unhealthy lifestyle, you may also be influenced in that direction.


  • Warning Signs of Health and How We Age - Adult Health and Wellness
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] In infancy and childhood, we can be fairly accurate in predicting physical growth and development at different ages and stages. But as we age, there is no uniform timetable. Chronological age is not necessarily a good indicator of how someone will look, feel or function in the world. Studies of Werner Syndrome, premature aging disease, may provide information about the genetic process of normal aging. Werner Syndrome creates many diseases and symptoms that usually occur when people age, including: graying of the hair, skin changes, cataracts, diabetes, vascular disease, osteoporosis, and even cancer.


  • Relationship and Marriage Counseling - There is NO Magic Dust
    [Relationships:Marriage] Counseling and deeper therapy is not a quick fix. There is no magic dust that can be sprinkled over your body and your life to make it all better. We cannot kiss away your deep emotional wounds and years of emotional relationship baggage. So, if you have been struggling with a difficult relationship that is emotionally painful, even devastating, with lots of anger, drama, confusion, turmoil and intermittent upsets, maybe you could really benefit from some counseling sessions.


  • Love, Sex Or Money - Which One Do You Really Want?
    [Relationships:Love] It has been said that love makes the world go 'round. It has also been said that money is the root of all evil. And when it comes to sex, "use it or lose it" seems to sum it up. In this society, so many of us are caught up in the pursuit of all three -- love, sex and money - but not necessarily in that order. I might create a new statement that can definitely be corroborated. This article invites you to pause and think about whether you really want love and if you know how to love and be loved.


  • Dating and Loving - How Do You Know If You Have Found "The One"?
    [Relationships:Dating] Before starting to write this article, I decided to first check out what other people are saying about this important topic. So I went to Google search and typed in the words "dating and relating."


  • Mind-Body Wellness - Healing From the Inside Out
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] What is Mind-Body Wellness and how can you achieve that goal, if that is what you truly desire? Basically, developing mind-body wellness requires a certain amount of knowledge and understanding combined with skills that develop through the practice of ongoing awareness, mindfulness and self-reflection.


  • Mind-Body Wellness - What Does Spirit Have to Do With It?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] For some of us, attaining mind-body wellness appears to be a daunting task. Some of us are so accustomed to seeking and finding our favorite ways to avoid feeling uncomfortable. Depending upon our prior experiences and personal preferences, we may turn to a specific familiar and comfortable activity to avoid self-reflecting and facing our own internal, and sometimes painful, emotions. The road to mind-body wellness is a very simple, straight and narrow path. It is available to all who seek it. All it takes is a sincere desire and taking daily small steps, one day at a time, one situation at a time, one moment at a time, even one thought at a time.


  • Male Sexual Arousal - How Lap Dances and Strip Clubs Affect Male Sexual Desire, Arousal and Behavior
    [Relationships:Sexuality] A man has been lying to his wife. For months he has been secretly going out at night to exotic dance clubs, hobnobbing with strippers, and getting lap dances (which he chooses to believe are "innocent" and "harmless"). He has been enjoying his own secret little world that brings him a sense of sensual arousal and illicit overall body pleasure. He tells himself he is "not cheating." Inevitably however, after some indefinite amount of time, his wife discovers what he has been doing.


  • Living With Pain? American Pain Foundation Offers Help
    [Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Are you currently suffering from some type of chronic pain? Well, you are not alone. The American Pain Foundation (APF), established in 1997, now has a membership of over 80,000 people living with pain, their caregivers, and healthcare personnel. This foundation was established to improve the quality of life for patients suffering from pain, sometimes daily, and to advocate for public awareness, information, education and research into this elusive medical condition that affects.


  • Relationships Over the Years - Doomed, Or Can They Be Salvaged?
    [Relationships:Conflict] Relationships are complex and can be so unforgiving. So many outside factors affect the way we feel about our self: aging, health, finances, career, friendships, family, loss, our physical appearance, whether we are living our dreams, or if there is some unrequited love or unfulfilled dreams and goals. Then there is the fear of aging and of dying.


  • Whole Food, Real Food Or Supplements - Which Will Keep You Healthier?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] I have always believed that food is the source of health and nutrition, not vitamin pills, mineral pills, herbs, or medications. I recently completed a four day Qi Gong Ki Energy Training which re-inspired me to focus on the nutritional value of whole food.


  • Peak Experiences - Have You Ever Had One and Do You Remember the Feeling?
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] For most of us, a peak experience is exactly that, a peak experience for a brief moment in time, an experience that we may have only once to twice in our entire lifetime. But the moment ends and we may never be able to recapture that feeling, that experience, ever again. So, how does one consciously create a peak experience? And how can we create peak experiences that last longer than a brief moment? The answer is both simple and complex.


  • Heal Your Body, Mind, Spirit and Vital Energy With Chun Do Sun Bup Ki Healing
    [Health-and-Fitness:Healing-Arts] I just completed an intensive four day training in a powerful healing modality called Qi Gong. Something about it was so familiar. Many years earlier, while studying Massage Therapy at the Swedish Institute in New York City, I had received a few training sessions of Qi Gong.


  • Codependent Or Loving Partner - Which One Are You and How Do You Know the Difference?
    [Relationships:Love] Are you codependent in your relationships or are you just a loving man or woman naturally giving and sharing your love? Very often, I believe, codependency is given a bad rap. Years ago there was a cigarette commercial that actually deified the "Marlboro Man," a strong, independent, self-sufficient person who needed nobody. Many of us confuse self-sufficiency to the point of narcissistic self-absorption with being relationship savvy and the model of relationship health. Once you have identified what type of relationship you are currently involved in, codependent or intimate, that is the first step toward healing your capacity to love. This article defines relationship, intimacy and codependency and helps you to differentiate, for yourself, what type of relatoinship you are involved in.


  • Relieving Pain - Current Thoughts on Drug Treatments For Neuropathic Pain
    [Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Neuropathic pain results from damage to or dysfunction in the nervous system, triggered by trauma, infections and nervous system disorders. This type of pain is difficult to treat and often requires a combination of pharmacological therapies, psychological counseling and the use of some form of alternative and complementary medicine.


  • Transgendered Rights - An Uphill Struggle For Many Years
    [Relationships:Sexuality] In 1999, in an academy award winning film, Boys Don't Cry, the talented actress Hillary Swank won an academy award for her portrayal of the true story of Teena Brandon. Teena was a biological female who was dressing, behaving and attempting to convince others that she was male. Teena Brandon was raped and murdered as a result of the discrimination and intolerance that people felt in 1991 in Falls City, Nebraska.


  • A Transgendered Life - Can You Imagine It?
    [Relationships:Sexuality] Imagine if it was expected of you, whoever you are, that you must change and become a female if you are male or a male if you are female. Could you imagine being forced to change your outer appearance and your entire demeanor to please other people's expectations? Think about that if you happen to meet a transgendered person who is just trying to live their own life, the only one they were given.


  • Cheating - An Epidemic Or Are We Expecting Too Much From Each Other in Relationships?
    [Relationships:Love] Why are so many of us so concerned about cheating? What is cheating anyway? Perhaps we are somewhat complicit and even more at fault than we realize. A brief Webster's dictionary definition of cheating is: to swindle, to defraud or to be dishonest. Is your intimate partner in an ongoing relationship with you purposely and maliciously swindling you if he or she chooses to get unmet needs (emotional and physical) met in the arms of another willing partner? Is your intimate partner purposely defrauding you when he or she lies about whereabouts and activities when not with you? Well, this is where intimacy enters the picture. In an intimate love relationship, you are continually learning about your partner. You ask questions about their life. You are concerned about the issues that affect them. You know something about their early childhood upbringing and the ways they might have learned to deal with relationships and cope with stress.


  • Love and Friendship - Validation Or More of the Same
    [Relationships:Love] Think about it. What is the purpose of love and friendship? Are we here to be our best friend's teacher or our lover's psychotherapist? Are we here to prove that we are right, that we know what is best for someone else? Are we here to validate the experts and strangers while invalidating the vulnerable person who is closest to us? True friendship and true love, I believe, is a state of total acceptance of the other person? When your friend, your lover, or your spouse upsets you, try saying to your self, "He is a perfect Charley, no matter what he does, because what he does reflects Charley's way of being." "She is a perfect Carol, no matter what she does, because what she does reflect's Carol's way of being." The question is, Can you accept this person "as is?"


  • Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injury May Lack Sexual Inhibition
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] There is a problem that many returning soldiers are having to cope with, which is not talked about as often as such problems as PTSD and depression. This problem is also much less understood by professionals, physicians and psychotherapists, as well as family, friends, coworkers, and other military personnel. What I am talking about here is Traumatic Brain Injury. This is a serious medical condition that can cause memory lapses, difficulty connecting thoughts and actions, uncontrolled emotions, and blocked inhibitions.


  • Body Psychotherapy -- Questions About the Scientific Validity -- Part II
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] In Europe, for any modality within psychotherapy to be accepted as "scientific," it must answer the 15 questions (listed in Part I of this article). In the United States, however, body psychotherapy is still viewed askance by many traditional psychotherapists. They do not realize that body psychotherapists are uniquely educated and highly skilled practitioners with a keen working knowledge of the mind-body-spirit connection.


  • Veterans Suffering From PTSD Have Difficulty Adjusting to Intimate Relationships
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] A Rand Corporation telephone survey of 1,965 former soldiers found at least 14% were suffering from PTSD and another 14% had major depression. Lisa Jaycox, Ph.D., author of the RAND report called "Invisible Wounds of War: Summary of Key Findings on Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, discovered that veterans are not receiving adequate medical and psychological attention and treatment. If left undiagnosed, untreated, or inadequately treated, the long lasting effects can be devastating for the veterans and their families, coworkers and friends.


  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Caused by Trauma - Touch Therapy and Body Psychotherapy Can Help You
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] It is estimated that out of 1.6 million troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan alone, nearly 300,000 have returned with some form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). And those are the reported cases. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), about 30 percent of men and women who have spent time in war zones, not just Iraq and Afghanistan, have experienced PTSD for varying lengths of time. An even more alarming statistic is that nearly 7.7 million Americans have the symptoms of PTSD at any given time. Many of the PTSD sufferers have never been in an actual war zone, but PTSD has no borders. psychotherapy, methods that can help you to overcome the most lingering traumatic memories and start living in emotional peace and well being.


  • Body Psychotherapy - Questions About the Scientific Validity - Part I
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] In Europe, for any modality within psychotherapy to be accepted as "scientific," it must answer the following 15 questions. The European Association for Body Psychotherapy successfully completed this comprehensive task several years ago. In the United States, however, body psychotherapy is still viewed askance by many traditional psychotherapists. They do not realize that body psychotherapists are uniquely educated and highly skilled practitioners with a keen working knowledge of the mind-body-spirit connection. These questions are listed at the European Association for Body Psychotherapy web site.


  • Keeping Passion Alive - Why Do We Age? - Adult Health and Wellness
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] How Do We Age? Chronological age measures the number of years, hours, minutes and seconds we have been alive. If this is our only criterion of healthy aging, we will feel older and older every year we remain alive. We will feel less energetic, less passionate, less flexible, and less alive with every day that passes. Fortunately, this is only one of many measures of healthy aging.


  • Love is Simple - Loving May Be the Hardest Thing You Have Ever Done
    [Relationships:Love] At first, everything is timing. You meet a new person because you happen to be in the right place at the right time. You connect with each other because both of you are in a state of mind that is somehow receptive to the other person.


  • Love and Intimacy - A Gourmet, Artistic Expression of Loving Relationship
    [Relationships:Love] Intimacy is an art form, a gourmet expression of relationship. Only a true artist knows intimacy. We delve into the black hole of our consciousness, seeking the white light of revelation. Intimacy is not for the faint of heart. It requires truthfully looking into our own soul, our own deep, dark, hidden attributes as well as our unique human magnificence - and then sharing our full self, dark and light, with another soul. Only a sensitive artistic being is willing to take the sometimes treacherous journey into their own humanity to create lasting love and intimacy with another being. And it often requires the assistance of someone who has gone there before, someone who has studied the process and can teach you the ropes - a qualified, holistically knowledgeable therapist or healer.


  • Sex Therapy - Sexual Problems - I Don't Have a Sexual Problem Or Do I?
    [Relationships:Sexuality] As a sex therapist I have sometimes felt like a person with a contagious disease. People often become defensive in my presence and act as if they are trying to prove that they are sexually confident, sexually mature, and quite savvy. Men and women with obvious relationship as well as sexual problems will sometimes giggle, look at me askance and standing at arms length, exclaim, "I don't have a sexual problem." This articles provides some typical explanations offered by ordinary men and women who may be denying that they have a problem that could possibly be helped by working with a sex therapist.


  • Sex Therapy, Marriage Counseling, Or Psychotherapy - Which Do You Need Now?
    [Self-Improvement:Coaching] A qualified, licensed, and experienced psychotherapist, regardless of their identified specialty, has probably dealt with sexual concerns, love relationship and marriage problems, overcoming addictions, and various and sundry emotional and psychological issues. The question you might want to ask is: How do I know what type of therapy and which specific therapist will help me to resolve and overcome my most pressing problems and concerns?


  • Internet Pornography Changes Your Brain - And Often Leads to Addiction
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Did you know, the simple act of surfing the internet actually stimulates the development of new neural networks in the prefrontal cortex (the thinking part) of your brain? Once these neural networks have formed, you can continue to stimulate the growth and strengthen the newly formed connections or you can stop the continued growth and allow the networks to remain dormant indefinitely. As you continue surfing for pornographic images, a few hours daily, for weeks and even months, the images that perked your curiosity and excitement at the beginning seem to no longer arouse your senses. The intensity of those original neural pathways have receded while the more prominent pathways are becoming more fine tuned to your unique, continually developing, changing, and idiosyncratic sexual arousal patterns -- that you are actually creating from viewing these images.


  • Simple Secret to Living a Long Life, Healthy Life, and Happy Life - Love Yourself First
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Those who have lived long and healthy lives, way past the ages of less fortunate people, tend to have certain traits in common. These people are not sedentary - they either continue working in the fields, in the kitchen, in the garden or in their business or craft, they are physically active and socially involved. There is not just one type of diet, but they do have a tendency to eat small, measured quantities of food, rather than filling up with huge portions. They have a large network of close family and friends, people they interact with daily. But to me, the most significant similarity is their tendency to maintain a personal spiritual perspective, a sense that they are not personally in control of life and events, and a realization of the importance of love.


  • Internet Pornography and Sexual Addictions Create Shame, Despair and Loss of Love
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Internet pornography and sexual addictions are destroying relationships. The act of getting involved with totally anonymous strangers for sexual excitement and satisfaction creates a temporary high and inevitably leads to a serious letdown. The low periods lead to a need to seek the high again - and the process continues to the point of loss of willpower and lack of conscious control. Some clients, the fortunate ones, come to counseling because the healthy part of their psyche is telling them to stop doing these potentially destructive activities.


  • Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Champion? You Decide
    [Self-Improvement:Success] A champion is someone who takes whatever God given talent he or she is born with and expands it into continued excellence. A champion is developed through continued practice and determination. Often it requires beginning at a very young age. So, if you begin later in life, you may not be able to achieve the greatness of someone who has had a head start as a child, but you can become a champion at your own level of competition - or - you can maintain a defeatist attitude and say, "I can't win, so why bother trying?"


  • Assertiveness - Is it Worth Speaking Your Mind If You Don't Get What You Want?
    [Relationships:Communication] Being assertive is saying what you want and speaking up for yourself and your own needs and desires. Assertiveness involves expressing your wants and needs with clarity and conviction. Being assertive is an act of confidence and concern for your own well being. But, you might ask, "Isn't that just being selfish, self-serving, self-absorbed, and disinterested in the expressed wants and needs of others?" The answer is, "No." When you are being assertive, you are expressing what you want and need but you are not demanding that others give you what you ask for. When you are assertive, you offer others the possibility of negotiating with you.


  • Dating and Intimate Relationships - Online Vs In-Person - Which is Better?
    [Relationships:Dating] In August 2003, 5 years ago, U.S. News and World Report reported that about 40 million people clicked on online dating sites. There are many important questions that need to be answered about this new phenomenon in dating, meeting and connecting. This article is only the tip of the iceberg in responding to these questions.


  • What is Yoga and How Can it Help Me Gain Peace of Mind, Lose Weight, and Feel Good?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] b>What is yoga and how can it help me? Yoga, as it was traditionally taught in India, is an entire lifestyle including vegetarian diet, holding yoga postures as a form of exercise, relaxation, meditation, chanting and breathing. If you really do yoga the way it was developed over thousands of years, you would develop a calm demeanor, happy state of mind, ability to relax, concentrate, work and achieve whatever you desire in your life, almost effortlessly.


  • How Does Sexual Functioning Change As We Age?
    [Relationships:Sexuality] Aging leads to changes in bodily appearance and organ functioning, lower levels of pituitary hormones, and a higher incidence of illness, injury, disease and chronic pain involving multiple prescriptions for pharmaceutical medications. These bodily changes, along with emotionally stressful life events, e.g., retirement, empty nest, loss of partner, or caring for elderly parents, may adversely affect sexual functioning. Among the many changes that occur as we age, sexual dysfunctions and other types of sexual problems may also occur. If we are willing to examine our life, our issues and the changes occurring in our body, we can overcome many problems, including those that affect our sexuality. This article describes changes that occur with aging and treatment solutions to choose from.


  • What's the Problem With a Little Harmless Fantasy and Internet Pornography? Plenty!
    [Relationships:Sexuality] destructive behavior that can destroy an otherwise substantially good relationship? Have you thought about what is actually going on? Have you said to yourself or to your partner: What's the problem with a little harmless fantasy?


  • Do You Or Your Partner Have a Problem With Internet Pornography? Help is Available
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Are you or your partner secretly watching pornography on the internet, spending hours and hours that could be more productive and time that is not spent sharing love, conversation and activities with each other. Unlike pornographic magazines, photographs and videos, internet pornography is easy to access, easy to conceal, and often anonymous. It requires little emotional connection, no obligation or commitment, no pressure to perform, and no need to deal with the real world.


  • Healing Your Relationship After Cheating is Discovered
    [Relationships:Affairs] Although on the surface it appears that men may cheat for sex and women may cheat for emotional connection, I believe that both men and women cheat for similar reasons. What will counseling do for a relationship in distress because one or both partners have been lying, cheating and having separate affairs? Isn't the damage already done and the best solution to dissolve this painful relationship? Counseling and psychotherapy are not instant gratification solutions. Counseling sessions provide a safe and private place to explore what is going on in your life and your relationship in light of your personality, family history and personal dreams and goals.


  • Why Do People Cheat in Relationships?
    [Relationships:Affairs] An estimated 45-55% of married women and 50-60% of married men admit to having cheated. What is different about the 45-55% of married women and the 40-50% of married men who claim to have not cheated? Are they just particularly lucky to have married a much more exciting, stimulating, caring, sensitive, understanding, loving, happy, loyal, and successful partner? Is there something different and unique about the men and women who do not and have not cheated on their primary partners or spouses? I believe there is a difference. And I believe that many relationships could be salvaged and recreated if both partners understood more about this.


  • High Self Esteem - What You Think of Me is None of My Business
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Many years ago, I heard a statement that I did not really understand but I somehow wished I would be able to achieve. This perplexing statement was: What you think of me is none of my business!


  • Learn the Basic Principles of Healing - Discover the Rubenfeld Synergy Method
    [Health-and-Fitness:Healing-Arts] There are many somatic body psychotherapy methods that can assist you to re-connect you mind, body and spirit. Many of these methods will help you to discover thoughts and emotions you have not been willing to recognize and may unlock previously hidden memories. Some methods focus on your character structure, the particular ways that you hold your body which indicate your specific patterns of thought and behavior. Other methods encourage your mindful awareness of what is happening in your body. What is unique, special and so incredibly powerful about The Rubenfeld Synergy Method® is the simultaneous use of talk therapy and gentle touch.


  • Predictors of Healthy Aging - Adult Health and Wellness
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] There seems to be a formula for healthy aging, suggested by the latest research on centenarians and the research comparing people in their 20's - 40's to those in their 60's - 90's. Some of the predictors of healthy aging include: physical, intellectual, emotional, relational, spiritual and sexual. Maintaining health and wellness in each of these areas may not prolong your life, but it will certainly improve the quality and enjoyment of your daily existence as you age. And, you may be surprised to find your are living longer than you ever imagined possible.


  • Causes and Complications of Chronic Pain - Adult Health and Wellness
    [Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Often called 'the fifth vital sign,' pain is as important as temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure as a key indicator of a patient's medical status. The longer we live, the more likely it is that we will eventually experience some type of injury or disease that results in temporary or even chronic pain. Surgeries become more frequent, both elective and those deemed vital to our survival and well-being. Injury and surgery leads to scar tissue that may cause lingering pain, mar our outer appearance, and diminish certain movement capabilities.


  • Emotional Upsets As We Age - Adult Health and Wellness
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] As we age, it is more likely that we will eventually experience emotional upsets, loss and change. Many of us go from busy, full time workers or full time parents to partial workers, empty nesters and grandparents, to full time retirees, with or without a life partner, adequate financial resources, secure housing, or a network of close family and friends. We may move from a familiar neighborhood to a different retirement community. Friends, neighbors, close relatives and even our beloved house pets may become ill and pass away.


  • Normal Aging is Not Disease - Adult Health and Wellness
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Physiologic changes that occur with aging do not necessarily cause disability. Aging does not inevitably lead to declining levels of cardiac functioning, bone density, muscular strength, cognitive ability and memory, sexual desire and activity, physical and social functioning, nor does aging insure rising levels of blood pressure, cholesterol and anemia.


  • Maintaining Sensual Aliveness - Adult Health and Wellness
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] What Are the Physiological Changes of Normal Aging? From conception to our early twenties, aging involves growth, maturation, and learning. Then, sometime in our late twenties, the growth process slows down and deterioration begins. Some human abilities, such as athletic strength, agility, and sexual potency, tend to peak for many of us by age 30. Other abilities, such as business acuity and social savoir-fair, continue to expand and improve with practice over a lifetime. This article takes a look at the normal aging process of our five senses.


  • Aging is Inevitable - Adult Health and Wellness
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Although aging is inevitable, how we look, feel and cope as we get older, is not. Aging affects each of us at different rates and in different ways. Even within the same individual, each organ and organ system ages differently, influenced by genetics, environment, lifestyle, attitudes, social networks, spiritual connections, and overall health and well being. In infancy and childhood, we can be fairly accurate in predicting physical growth and development at different ages and stages. But as we age, there is no uniform timetable. Chronological age is not necessarily a good indicator of how someone will look, feel or function in the world.


  • Super Centenarians Defy All Odds and Live Very Long, Healthy Lives
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Declining physical prowess is inevitable as we age. Depression, loneliness, isolation and apathy are not. Many of us believe we are old when we have passed age 60, 50, 40 and even 30. But even when we are approaching 100 or more, we could possibly live another 10 or even 20 years. Recently deceased and some currently living centenarians are teaching us that perhaps our beliefs about aging have been incorrect.


  • Body Psychotherapy to Overcome Your Past, Sexual, Relationship, & Emotional Problems
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Psychotherapy is usually talk therapy. You talk about your thoughts and emotions, behaviors and attitudes. You may reflect upon your past, your childhood, your previous and current relationships and the issues you are currently struggling with. The focus is on changing your behavior and attitudes so that you can communicate more clearly with others and create more satisfaction in your life. Body psychotherapy methods have a similar intention, to help you to gain clarity about your life and make the changes you desire for greater life satisfaction. In a body psychotherapy session you might also focus on your breathing - is it shallow, is it choppy, are you holding your breath, is your abdomen tight or feeling painful? You might also focus on sensations that you feel, aches and pains, tightness and other sensations. The therapist might encourage you to exaggerate the tightness so that you truly feel it or to allow your body to let go of tension and really relax. As your body begins to let go of its habitual tension and armoring, your brain often produces images, insights, intuitions, emotional release, and creative solutions that could not have been logically obtained through talking and the reasoning mind.


  • A Sampling of Body Psychotherapy Methods to Overcome Relationship Problems
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Can Body Psychotherapy Resolve Sexual and Relationship Issues? Body psychotherapy uses somatic experiencing, metaphors and body image work, empathic listening and feedback, touch, body/mind/spirit awareness and connection, mental health skills, and a wide variety of the best techniques from Eastern and Western teachings, psychology, body therapy and transpersonal revelations and insights. This article offers a brief overview and sampling of various body psychotherapy methods. Can Body psychotherapy resolve sexual and relationship issues? You be the judge!


  • Healthy Aging - Centenarians and Seniors Can Live Healthy, Active, Fulfilling Lives - And So Can You
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Studies of centenarians and super centenarians have taught us more than we had known before about the process of aging and what keeps us alive. Four Blue Zones, regions in the world with the oldest inhabitants, have been identified. These four areas are: Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, California., and The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica.


  • Treatment Choices For Overcoming Sexual and Relationship Problems
    [Relationships:Sexuality] Our sexual desires, interest, behaviors, attitudes and problems are not separate from the rest of our life. If you are currently having a sexual problem such as feeling impotent (unable to become aroused or unable to gain control over your sexual response), you may be feeling impotent, inadequate, or helpless in other areas of your life as well. If your sexual problem is about having difficulty achieving orgasm or continuing the sexual act until your partner is also satisfied, you may have a general fear of letting go, of trusting others, and of losing control.


  • The Seven Styles of Body Therapy That Can Heal Whatever Hurts You
    [Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Do you have a chronic of lifelong physical, emotional, spiritual, social or sexual problem? Have you tried to self-medicate through alcohol, prescription drugs, or recreational drugs? Are you educated about your problem, having read many articles & books? Have you tried traditional counseling, group counseling, seminars, and 12 Step groups?


  • You Don't Like the Other Sex, You Are the Other Sex - Gender Identity Disorders
    [Relationships:Sexuality] A person with a gender identity disorder is a person who strongly identifies with the other sex. A person with this disorder often experiences great discomfort regarding his or her actual anatomic gender. People with gender identity disorder may act and present themselves as members of the opposite sex and may express a desire to alter their bodies. The disorder affects an individual's self-image, and can impact the person's mannerisms, behavior and dress. Individuals who are committed to altering their physical appearance through cosmetics, hormones and, in some cases, surgery are known as transsexuals.


  • Paraphilias - Sexual Problems We May Not Want to Know About
    [Relationships:Sexuality] Most of us like to think of ourselves as normal. We like to believe that our attitudes, desires and behaviors are not that different from anyone else's. However, when it comes to sexual arousal fantasies and often actual sexual behaviors, your neighbor may be very different than you would even want to know. What I am talking about here is a topic that is often ignored when sexuality is being discussed. This is a topic that makes many of us extremely uncomfortable. This article is about paraphilias: sexual desires and fantasies that are not primarily focused on creating intimate, loving sexual relationships.


  • Isn't Sex Supposed to Be Fun? So Why Don't We Always Desire It?
    [Relationships:Sexuality] In the movies, on TV, and in many popular magazines, sex is portrayed as an exciting, fun-filled adventure. Advice abounds on how to improve your sex life, make "him" want more and make "here" desire you. But in real life, for real men and real women, sex is often anything but fun and exciting.


  • The Pitfalls of Sexual Intimacy - Losing Arousal and Not Knowing What to Do
    [Relationships:Sexuality] Sexual intimacy is often described as one of the most pleasurable activities of life. But for many of us, that joy is curtailed when we are unable to become sexually aroused. We may think about sex, desire sex, and even dream about it. However, some of us, some of the time, when we are actually involved in a real life sexual encounter with a real live person, suddenly have difficulty becoming aroused. This article discusses this problem, some possible causes, and the best approach for overcoming it.


  • Self Esteem and Character Building
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Self esteem is one of the most important qualities that each of us needs to develop to live an expansive, emotionally comfortable and morally free life. Without sufficient self esteem, we become chameleons, changing our thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors to please a person to get through an experience. Without sufficient self esteem, it is difficult to take the high road when life presents its normal stressors, obstacles and problems. Good self esteem is a building block for strong character.


  • Recreating Passion and Intimacy
    [Relationships:Sexuality] Have you ever felt that your partner loves you but has stopped showing it? Have you begun to feel unappreciated, ignored or even abandoned? Has your partner taken you for granted and stopped trying to please you? This article offers a solution. There is a simple solution, a way to painlessly increase your partner's resolve to pay attention to you, to show their caring, and to change their attitude and behavior.


  • Healing is Learning to Love and Trust
    [Relationships:Love] Healing is not about curing physical illness or disease. Healing is becoming whole and learning to love and trust in the good that is available to us. It's that simple! Yet learning to love is the most difficult task of our life. If it was so easy to learn to love, why have we been given 50, 60, 70, and in some cases, over 100 years to master this one simple lesson?


  • Our Sexuality Expresses Who We Are - What Are You Expressing?
    [Relationships:Sexuality] Many, many, many people have discovered their passion, for the very first time, in the long term commitment of marriage or in the later stages of life with a new and exciting relationship. In fact, many married couples continue to have passionate and pleasurable sex with their lifetime mate into their golden years.


  • Who Are You - Do You Really Know?
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] This article is about you: who you are, who you have been told you are, who you believe you are, and who you choose to be. Nobody in the world can tell you who you are. You have your own DNA, your own fingerprints, your own beliefs, and your own sense of self. The purpose of this article is to help you discover and reveal to yourself who really believe you are. Knowing this without a doubt will allow you be more fully yourself in all your relationships.


  • Enhance Your Sensual Awareness For Better Health
    [Health-and-Fitness] Our five senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch - are a precious gift of life. If we ignore or suppress our body's sensual messages, our sensual responses are diminished.


  • Polarity Therapy, Healing and Sexuality
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] What do sexuality, polarity therapy and healing have in common? Many of us believe that our sexuality can be separated from who we are, how we think and what is going on physiologically in our body. We need to understand that our body is actually a hologram - every part affecting every other part. And, our body is a metaphor, a physical representation of our thoughts, actions & responses, revealing to us what we need to pay attention to, change or learn.


  • The Body - Somatic Body Psychotherapy and Sexual Health
    [Relationships:Sexuality] Our sexuality it an intrinsic part of our self and our life. Our sexual response is a natural bodily function unless interfered with in some way by our thoughts, emotions, body tension or relationship stressors. Our body doesn't lie. Through caring, gentle, healing touch, tension patterns can lessen, emotional holding can be released, and we can begin to express the love we feel.




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