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Imagine you are walking through in a store. You pick up a pretty item of decor and notice the price is sixty dollars. Before you toss it in the cart with a shrug, ask yourself this: Would you pay one and a half or even three times that amount for the item? What about twenty-five times the sticker price? Maybe not? If it is a recurring expenditure, how would you like to pay three hundred times the current price? ` If you invested the money instead of making the purchase,

Have you ever had writer's block or work block? We have all experienced times when focusing on work and making any meaningful progress is an absolute daydream. Rationalizing with ourselves or applying more force only tends to make us more scattered. We need a needle to weave all those loose threads, an arrow to direct our thoughts. Well, as above, so below. If work feels distracted or directionless, go outside, pick a direction and start walking. If taking a break ahe

You are Dehydrated I firmly believe that everyone is operating with diminished or impaired vital functions.  Whether it is trauma in the nervous system, poor diet, environmental distractions, or, a fundamental lack of hydration.  Like nervous system issues, these stressors impact and impair our daily activities. Slowly we adapt and become not who we were -full, vital, healthy people but slower, older, weaker, crankier; caretakers of bodies in various states of disrepair.  M

Imagine a long leisurely stroll through a beautiful woodland.  Tall trees arch overhead as moving shadows flit about the path. Gravel crunches beneath your feet and you move forward, pulled by the vast and endless sky. Buds are swelling and everything is shifting gently upward to the tune of birdsong.  An old stone pine, bristling but cheerful, elegantly frames the vista beyond. You can just barely feel the sun on your skin when you notice a growing bank of clouds darkenin

Trauma can take up residence in the body due to specific events like a broken leg or auto accident, or, it can result from the repetitive strain and scurry of modern life. I am not defining your trauma. I use the term trauma as short-hand for fascial and muscular tension that becomes stuck due to an overactive sympathetic nervous system. The flight, fight or freeze response can be triggered by emotions, thoughts and events. When the sympathetic nervous system is over-fun

Are you always busy, on-the-go, and under stress? Do you ever feel like you can't totally calm down and relax, even while on vacation? Do you have trouble staying in the moment and are you constantly planning the next thing or worrying about certain events in the future, past decisions? How do you tolerate unexpected changes to your plans? The inevitable hiccups and delays happen to us all. Do they make you feel exhausted, irritable, despondent, sad or angry? Know that