Journey to Sacred Sites
A Conversation with Phil Cousineau
Documentary filmmaker and travel leader to sacred sites and author of
The Art of Pilgrimage
Q. What’s the difference between a pilgrimage and a vacation?
A. Vacationers have a deep desire to empty their minds on pleasure trips that are essentially about being entertained. Tourists generally travel to acquire, shop [...]
Mounting research reveals that animals not only respond physically and emotionally to music, like us, they even have musical preferences! Happy, beautiful, harmonious music seems to help everyone, whatever our species.
For instance, when poultry producers routinely played easy listening music to their flocks, 96 percent of study participants reported that it calmed the chickens. Also, [...]
Making Sense of Scents for Holistic Healing
Plant oils have a long history of contributing to our psychological and physical well-being. Ancient Egyptians extracted vegetable oils from plants by pressing them through cloth. The resulting ointments were used in their spiritual practices, cosmetics, medicines and for embalming the dead. We also know that the Greeks particularly [...]
Alternative Clinics Offer Holistic Ways To Beat Addiction
Bill Beilhartz had run out of options. At age 44, this father of two had just spent two weeks in the hospital for alcohol-induced ulcers in his esophagus and stomach. He’d registered a nearly lethal blood alcohol level of .675. He’d had two failed marriages. His tall, once-handsome [...]
Best of Friends
Children and animals seem to be one of life’s inevitable combinations. Animals heavily populate children’s books and other media and commonly appear as decorative designs on kids’ clothing, furniture and toys. People often compliment a pet’s nature by noting how gentle it is around even rambunctious children.
When asked about his own children’s experiences [...]
Laughter Yoga Cracks Us Up
Most yoga classes take place in quiet rooms full of earnest faces in various states of relaxation and concentration. Not so with laughter yoga, an unusual workout for the body, mind and spirit that aims to banish the blues by busting a gut.
Laughter yoga clubs began in 1995 with Dr. Madan [...]
Becoming aware of our emotions and how we manage them influences every aspect of our lives. Our emotions indicate our connection with other people and the world around us.As humans, we share a common set of emotions—we all can relate to feelings of anger, sorrow, pride and joy. Our ability to feel these emotions and [...]
“NASA will use its Deep Space Network to transmit a song across the universe. And fittingly, the song is “Across the Universe” by the Beatles.
On Feb. 4 at 7 pm EST, the song was beamed towards the North Star, Polaris, located 431 light years away from Earth, and traveled across the universe at 186,000 miles per [...]
The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, spiritual advisor to Deepak Chopra and the Beatles, has died in his Dutch home, his Transcendental Meditation movement announced Wednesday.
“With his life’s work complete, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is being welcomed with open arms into heaven,” the TM organization said in a press release.
He died peacefully around Tuesday evening in his home of Vlodrop [...]
Becoming aware of our emotions and how we manage them influences every aspect of our lives. Our emotions indicate our connection with other people and the world around us.As humans, we share a common set of emotions—we all can relate to feelings of anger, sorrow, pride and joy. Our ability to feel these emotions and [...]
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