Mar
31
Uncertainty Drives Boomers to Retire at Home, in Cities, and to Keep Options Open
March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Early census data is confirming a trend we noted earlier, that those of us looking towards retirement are opting to age in place rather than retreating to the Sunbelt. In fact, we’re choosing to live closer to cities to keep work options open. Boomers helped fuel growth in retirement destinations, now we’re playing a role [...]
Mar
29
The Heart in the Brain: Shift Your Perceptions, Manage Your Emotions and Reduce Stress to Prevent Heart Disease
March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Many wisdom traditions around the world speak of the heart as harboring its own Intelligence. Though I suspect many of us intuited a spark of truth in it, given the image of the mechanical pump we grew up with, it’s a notion we’ve tended to view metaphorically. Well, we were right! Over the last two [...]
Mar
26
Carolyn Myss is Helping Change the Face of Psychology
March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Mar
23
More on Positive Emotions Plus a Tool to Increase Happiness and Benefit Your Heart
March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
In light of just having shared the benefits of happiness and positive emotions on heart disease, we’ll share a resource and reprint an excerpt from our monthly newsletter about research on positivity. (Commercial pause: sign up to stay current on cutting edge research on body, mind, emotion and spirit health and vitality.) How negative are [...]
Mar
21
Feminine Power: Why Women Mean Business
March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment
A follow up to Avivah Wittenberg- Cox and Alison Maitland’s work on the new economic reality of women – and their power – in the workplace and as consumers. In this video they describe how the case for women in the workplace has been made – that gender balance is no longer a women’s issue [...]
Mar
18
10 Myths About Single Women Over 50
March 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
So which stereotypes about single women are true? The ones about women who’ve never felt more free and happy in their lives, or about those who are lonely, unhappy and inflexible? Before finding out how you – or your single friends – may compare to those in AARP’s study of single women over 45, it’s [...]
Mar
15
Finding Balance and Opportunity in Economic Crisis and Uncertain Times
March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment
As a veteran global fund-raiser for the Hunger Project, consultant to the Nobel Women’s Initiative to leverage the influence of women Nobel Peace Laureates to advance peace, justice, and equality, and as a trustee of the Fetzer Institute, whose mission is to foster awareness of love and forgiveness and the power of letting go, Lynne [...]
Mar
13
The Benefits of Happiness and Positive Emotions in Reducing Risks of Heart Disease
March 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
In a ten year study seeking to understand more attitudes affect our health, a team of researchers from Columbia University has found that, just as negative emotions such as anger, depression, and hostility are risk factors for heart attack and stroke, feelings of happiness seems to protect the heart. Specifically, the study examined the impact [...]
Mar
10
Osteoporosis Drugs Like Fosamax May Increase Risk of Fractures and Brittle Bones in Some Women
March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Do you know what a “low energy femoral shaft and subtrochanteric fracture” is? If you take a drug like Fosamax for osteoporosis or osteopenia, now is the time to get informed. These words, added to Fosamax inserts, warn that taking this drug increases your risk of fracturing your femur, or thigh bone, even during low [...]
Mar
9
Long Periods of Sitting Is Harmful for Your Health – Even If You Work Out
March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment
What fresh hell is this? It seems that the ante has been upped for couch potatoes, people who drive or who sit in front of computers for a living. Specialists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden are finding that prolonged periods of sitting are more harmful than what we’ve heretofore thought of as simply a [...]
