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Haircare: adapting your routine according to the seasons is essential

Seasonal haircare

Simple practices to maintain healthy hair year-round

A metaphorical representation of the impact and influence of Wind in Traditional Chinese Medicine as witnessed by a young Chinese monk in front of a Buddha statue

Wind in traditional Chinese medicine movements of energy

The story of Wind

Portrait of a man. Aporias. Nothing opens new perspectives

Torpor and massacre

Andean Traditional medicine still plays a prominent role in the health care of indigenous people

Health in the Andes

Traditional medicine in the modern world

Legs that don’t have good circulation can lead to numerous health issues

Importance of circulation in the legs

Signs of poor blood flow and simple ways to improve it at home

Stalker: not only famous people are victims of obsessive persecution

Stalker, a constant persecution

This psychological aggression can become irreparable

Strategies for good leaders: reverse the 80-20 rule

4 powerful strategies for good leaders

How to stay calm in difficult times

Acupuncture offers treatment for headaches and migraines

Acupuncture for aches and pains

Relieving joint and muscle pain not related to aging

Parenthood: the opportunity to see the world through her eyes

Parenthood: the adventure of a lifetime

Every day our baby girl is learning, growing, and finding new joys

Why are we afraid to sing?

Origins of our inner resistance

Beyond the fear of singing

Contemplating the balance of dark and light

The Tao of creation

Yin-Yang in Chinese Medicine

Finding yourself unimportant or very important, feeling below or above others creates isolation

Filtering experiences

Annihilating meanings

Negative patterns can be very hard to break

Two things that can really harm a relationship

Breaking negative patterns

Reflection: am I growing less tolerant of intrusions or am I choosing to prioritize order?

Does order take on more value as we get older, or do we merely care less for chaos?

An earthly paradise

Every day is today

Living in the moment

Fish oil is safe for everyone to consume

A vital longevity supplement

Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, ph. Doris Laesser Stillwater

A Kalaallit shaman: Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq

Melting the ice in the heart

Family relationships can sometimes be complicated

Deserving and rights

Reifying and alienating relationships initiated in the family

What is most important for leaders to do in order to thrive in this change?

Leadership in the "new normal"

Are you prepared?

Brother David at Le Celle

Brother David Steindl-Rast

In gratitude for all life

Traditional Chinese Medicine can help us enhance wellbeing and health

Traditional Chinese Medicine way of life

Chinese methods how to achieve perfect health

One of the great things about being an adult is that you have choices

4 types of people you need to set boundaries with

Kind but firm limit-setting is healthy

Self-awareness is a unique human quality and key to enhancing willpower

Learning through mistakes, mindfulness and willpower

Yoga guru Michael Bijker

Breathe in, breathe out, transcend

An interview of Portuguese motivational speaker and yoga guru Michael Bijker

Finding time to pause and watch the beauty of nature can help us to discover our values

Purposeful living

Finding meaning in our lives by focusing on the present moment

Meditation has shown a lot of benefits when it comes to relaxing the body and release all the stress

Meditation used as medicine

According to science, there are four clear types of meditation

The love mothers give to their children can change the world

A mother’s love

The best gift you can give to the world

Guilt is the lid of impotence

Guilt is the lid on impotence

How to deal with guilt?

Don’t wait for things to get really bad, to have important conversations

5 tips to make difficult conversations easier

Challenging conversations can be immensely stressful and energy draining

Angels: inner Peace, the kingdom of heaven, requires conscious innocence

When will balance come?

An archetypical, alchemical and astrological essay

In budo training we learn to discover and connect to our center – tanden

Budo-based tools for life

Building skills for connection, centering and awareness

Increased anxiety and stress can result from overexposure to digital technology

How digital technology can affect our brains

Striking a healthy balance between the virtual and real worlds through mindfulness and moderation

It’s essential to consume Vitamin C regularly

Vitamin C in anti aging

All you need is a good dose of Vitamin Sea

In China, medicinal wines are mostly used during the winter months

Healing with alcohols

Traditional Chinese Medicine wines and liquors

Feeling guilty fragments and divides the individual

Guilt and deception

How to deal with guilt?

Sexist discrimination causes severe emotional pain

Sexism and its effects on women's mental health

An examination of the real and wide-ranging consequences

Break the toxic cycle

10 signs you are being toxic to yourself

You are the most important person in your life

Generally, we misinterpret the meaning of being generous

Generosity as an entrepreneurship strategy

It is a very good idea to give before receiving

Decoding the secrets of a joyful and fulfilling life

Open your inner eye with Melissa Rose Mallory

Let’s travel from one point of time to another with ease and clarity

Hope is something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out

The psychology of hope

Hope is so organic to the quality and essence of our lives

As with the story of Io we can all change our form from time to time

Mindful living and Greek mythology

Self-acceptance, compassion and kindness drawn from the Myth of Io

The New Year’s Eve countdown is on

The new kind of New Year’s resolution

What’s your word?

Caloric restriction is interestingly the only nutritional intervention proven to potentially abate aging

What are caloric restriction and fasting?

It is necessary to rebut the misconception of the association between caloric restriction and nutritional deficiencies

Artificial fragrances, hydroquinone, triclosan, sulfates, parabens, and phthalates have become the dirty words of beauty

From chemical-based to clean beauty products

What has changed in the recent years?

Winterlight, ph. by M. Stillwater

All shall be well

The essence of radical optimism

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to empathize and understand the emotional state of others

Emotional Intelligence as a key to success

Lack of EI in times of crisis can lead to disarray

The 12 solar signs

Astrology for 2022

Forecast by zodiac sign

Terror takes up an underground residence in our very psyches and in our bodies as well

Chronic traumatic terror disorder

Stress is a small word for the contemporary terror

Discussing finances and saving plans can help to reduce anxiety around money

Financial emotional intelligence

Forming a healthier relationship with money

Students at all levels have been negatively affected in their education

COVID-19 and its effects on children

The future of our youth now depends on a supportive mental health system

Conscious consumers are challenging personal care and beauty brands by demanding constant improvements

Body care is part of self-care

Evolution of personal care and beauty with conscious choices

Make sure this Christmas is still merry and bright

Santa versus supply shortages

How to conquer 2021’s present problem

Albatross

In search of the Great Song

A timeless quest

The discovery of freedom

Happiness and harmony

Negativity bias is the human tendency to often focus the attention on negative

Negativity bias

What do you tend to focus on?

Poetry of the skies

The year 2022 reinforces and expands the trends verified in 2021

People running fast to nowhere

The Treadmill Syndrome

Are you really in control of your life?

U.K. based artist William Utermohlen's self portraits, documenting his suffering of Alzheimer’s disease over a 5 year period

Alzheimer’s disease through an artistic lens

The history and mystery of losing oneself to cognitive degeneration

Music helps and works alongside treatments for depression, such as antidepressant medication

Music for your mental health

How it improves your recovery after depression

Tibetan Mandala, detail

Challenged by one thousand pieces

Dynamics between oppressor and oppressed

Support and power

Dynamics between oppressor and oppressed

Be curious and observe the beauty that surrounds us

Strategic exercises of will

We must get out of the cocoon that we have built ourselves

Many of us have been doing all we can to find “what’s it all about…” especially with respect to human relationships

Peeking behind the curtain

Looking at human relationships, Alfie!

What do you see when you look at yourself in the mirror?

Positive mirror talk: flip things around

How to use your reflection for positive reinforcement

Being afraid to go on, to move on, is threatening

Emptiness and revolt

Nonsense revealed in breaches of agreements

There is a constant urge to compare ourselves to others

The perfection addiction

There will always be something better for us to achieve

Veterinary nurses sometimes are required to work long hours

Best techniques to help avoid vet nurse burnout

Reduce, manage, and prevent

The heart of healing, ph. M. Stillwater

Care for the journey

Sustaining the heart of healthcare

We often see signs of emotional drama, not just in our personal lives, but at our workplace too

Handling emotional drama at work

Difficult bosses and colleagues can make our lives feel like living hell

There are clues that we can identify to realize if they are selling us mirages or not

How do we know if they are selling us mirages?

It is better to be attentive

The mattering map is a living, breathing multi-dimensional, morphing entity

The mattering map

A 21st century concept to represent and contain the fullness of human experience

Your vital energy is returning to the Source

Graceful passages. An origin story

A companion for living and dying

Confucius believed that music is the best way to teach people about social and moral ethics

The healing power of music

The Six Healing Sounds

Maintaining a healthy relationship with the most important person in your life, that is you

Self-care practices to cope with the new normal

5 steps to begin caring for yourself better

Our conditions change day by day

What is our participation in the change?

Being a protagonist implies provoking transformations in others starting with oneself

Hot springs are literally everywhere in Japan

Bathing at onsen

Japanese traditional hot spring

For many women, conception happens easily

What affects your fertility

How to improve it

There is a Mystery that confronts us all, ph. M. Stillwater

Music at the threshold

The genesis of ‘SongCare’ therapy

Experimenting and signifying can be either identical or infinitely different

Experimenting and signifying

The attributed meaning

There are many things you can do to take charge of your life

4 conscious practices to take charge of your life

It’s the small things that make the big difference!

Categories are products of our human minds

There is no identity or self

There is only the mattering map

Beauty in antiquity

We all are more beautiful than our imagination

We just need to look beyond our perspectives

Misty forest, ph. Michael Stillwater

Forbidden city of the heart

SongLife chronicles

Chenot Palace, Weggis, ph. Roberto Pellegrini

The place where Chinese medicine meets West

An interview with Dr. George Gaitanos

Knowledge and imagination

Knowledge and imagination

The strength of the word

In recent times, the one emotion that we all have experienced in abundance is fear

Three steps to overcome any fears you may have

You are greater than your fear

We have been gifted from the Universe natural means of dealing with the imbalance and we’ve always survived

Mother nature as healer

Nature is our body, mind and spirit

Aging is an inevitable proce

Aging like Adaline, possible?

How the aging process can be stopped or rather slowed

Signs you are stressed at work

Work-related stress?

Five proactive ways to cope

Trust the flow of imagination, ph. Michael Stillwater

In the flow together

A glimpse into intuitive songwriting

Illusion is one of the most slippery themes in philosophy

The contemporary crisis of identification

Illusion and reality

How do we harness our thoughts in the right direction?

The power of the subconscious mind

There is only one thing we have total control over

Receiving a note can turn an ordinary day into an extraordinary moment

The joy of presenting greeting cards

A tradition of prosperity and legacy for eternity

Act with respect, maturity, and kindness

What if we cancel “cancel culture”?

How kindness can help us all “do better”

Feeling betrayed or cheated can lead to extreme revenges

Improbabilities that come true

Delirious certainties

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