While television and other common modes of "relaxation" take us away, meditation brings us into the present. It is at once energizing and relaxing, bringing us closer to ourselves. Meditating can be challenging at first; the longer one has been distracted from self, the more difficult it potentially may be. But the simplest movements are often the most beneficial, and it just so happens that one of the quickest and simplest sets of meditative movements is also one of the most powerful. 

By Contributing Writer Ethan Indigo Smith

Seeds are an essential addition to any healthy diet – they aren’t usually as revered as nuts, although they certainly deserve to be. Filled with a beneficial compliment of essential fats, protein, a vast array of different nutrients and phytonutrients, they play an important role in supporting health. Seeds are the embodiment of universal life force; each seed, a little power house of massive potential, designed to grow into an impressive, abundant plant. They are simply bursting with goodness. 

By Contributing Writer Trinity Bourne

If you’re seeking enlightenment through meditation, or perhaps you’re just looking to obtain a good night’s rest, you need a healthy pineal gland. Often referred to as the third eye, this small, pinecone-shaped endocrine organ located in the brain secretes and regulates melatonin, the hormone that regulates your circadian rhythms (your sleep-wake cycle) and certain sex hormones. Calcification is an issue that occurs to everyone, but it’s increased in individuals that eat a poor diet. The problem is that overexposure to fluoride and phosphorus destabilizes your body’s mineral balance. This causes your pineal gland to calcify quickly. Nearly half of Americans experience pineal calcification by the age of 18! Try these 5 foods for the best pineal gland health. 

2015 is proving to be extremely challenging for those still mired in third dimensional economics, debating whether or not capitalism is working. But for the rest of us, new opportunities abound as a new economy quietly bubbles to the surface. Just like we've always been "the ones we've been waiting for", so too, are we the ones who will self-fund the new economy with our own capital, volunteerism and gifting. 

By Guest Writer Christine Horner

Here’s a good exercise that will help alter your conscious awareness and put punch and clarity where slosh once existed. Don’t even use the words “hope” or “believe”. Every time you’re tempted to say, write or even think these debilitating, nebulous concepts, replace “I hope” or “I believe” with “I think” or “it appears to me” or something else realistic that clearly indicates what you really mean. These types of inhibitors are a subtle trick of the programmed language we've been handed. Hope is one of the most misleading and disempowering terms we've ever been handed, as is belief. Drop them entirely. We tend to know what people seem to mean when using these terms, but they’re still just as intellectually and spiritually crippling.

By Contributing Writer Zen Gardner

The Ego is a character, built up by multiple concepts and roles we play in society, in fact everything we have learned externally as good or bad. So the Ego, the subject of consciousness, as Jung defines it, is the complex of things that we have identified with, and by which we function. In other words, what we know about ourselves. But the Ego is only part of a whole, something bigger in which it is sustained - the Psyche. 

One of the fundamental core beliefs in conventional biology is that the traits and character of organisms are “controlled” by their genes. Before the Human genome Project was undertaken, scientists estimated that human complexity would necessitate a genome in excess of 100,000 genes. However, the results of that project reveal that there are only about 34,000 genes in the human genome. How can we account for the complexity of a genetically-controlled human when there are not even enough genes to go around? 

We think of ourselves as being one race of human beings, sharing one planet and one reality. But do we really? When we examine this on a deeper level of awareness, we begin to realize that there are many more worlds within this one world that we envision ourselves to be living in. What is more so, there are numerous realities as well, as each one of us - being a physical individuation of source energy - is its own world and reality. This means that we have about 7 billion worlds sharing one planet. 

By Guest Writer Evita Ochel

The idea of incorporating and teaching complementary and alternative medicine in the conventional medical school curriculum has been a raging debate for too long. What is imperative is a balanced view, because the community at large expects medical professionals to be able to provide information and guidance about the quality and therapeutic use not just of conventional medicine but also complementary, integrative or functional medicine, which most patients use some time or other. 

By Guest Writer Rajgopal Nidamboor

Diagnosing metal toxicities can be difficult and is often overlooked by health practitioners. Aside from acute toxicity where the symptoms are apparent, the symptoms and health effects of low to chronic toxicity may often resemble other diseases. For this reason, a careful analysis of dietary, environmental and occupational exposure history is one of the most important tools to help you evaluate your likelihood of toxicity - so it pays to know your heavy metals. 

By Guest Writer Marie Be

There are many reasons to avoid chlorinated pools, most of all for your health and the environment. Natural pools allow nature to provide hygienic water for swimming, and the ecology of plants and animals conditions the water so there is no need for chemical disinfectants. In fact the water quality in natural pools is so good, many are well within drinking water standards. 

By April McCarthy

To understand liver cleansing, it’s necessary to understand the function of the liver is to process toxins. If a liver running at 60% efficiency is leaving 40% of toxins unprocessed to accumulate in and float around, what effect do you think that has on your body? 

Did you know that there is a direct correlation between the incidence of arthritis and the presence of trace mineral boron in the body? Research regarding the trace mineral boron and its connection to arthritis is finally starting to see the light of day. 

By Contributing Writer Dr. Michelle Kmiec

tsū – The Social Network That Pays You

Sebastian Sobcza, founder of new social media network tsū, has created a social platform that actually pays you to use it. And this is your invitation to join us.