Mar
26
Carolyn Myss is Helping Change the Face of Psychology
March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: Kathleen Daniel
I’ve just learned that the Association for Humanistic Psychology is now partnering to sponsor Carolyn Myss’s CMED Institute workshops and intensives, including Defying Gravity: The Application of Mystical Laws into Your Everyday Life. This means that if you are a psychologist, nurse, marriage and family counselor or licensed social worker in California, you can receive continuing education credits for CMED courses. That AHP is offering credits for CMED is a major milestone! Our culture is recognizing that consciousness extends beyond the ego that is so narrowly defined and limited by our biography. Carolyn’s work enriches transpersonal psychology, grounded in many wisdom traditions as well as Carl Jung’s notion of the collective unconscious, which also frames midlife as the maturing of consciousness. In CMED and Sacred Contracts, Carolyn extends Jung’s work by showing practically how archetypes influence and drive Read more
Mar
23
More on Positive Emotions Plus a Tool to Increase Happiness and Benefit Your Heart
March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: Kathleen Daniel
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 you, really? Can you name ten positive emotions you’ve experienced today? Can you name ten positive emotions? In this interview ground-breaking researcher Barbara Frederickson, Ph.D suggests that a 3 to 1 ratio of positive emotions to negative emotions, experienced on a regular basis, is the tipping point beyond which you naturally become Read more
Mar
21
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 but a strategic and pragmatic business issue. With the OECD, the World Bank and the UN putting up dedicated gender websites promoting the economic benefits of women in the workforce, statistics showing that 60% of the educated talent pool in the developed world are women, Goldman Sachs stating that the Eurozone alone could gain 13% of GDP by reducing the gender gap, and McKinsey reporting how corporate performance improves by having women in leadership teams, they conclude that the “gender debate” is Read more
Mar
18
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 worth noting that of the 57 million American women 45 and up (2005), nearly half—25 million—are unmarried. While divorce and later marriages account for some of this, it’s also true that women still tend to outlive their spouses and end up alone. And overall, American women are likely to spend more years of their lives single than with a significant other, Read more
Mar
15
Finding Balance and Opportunity in Economic Crisis and Uncertain Times
March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: Kathleen Daniel
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 Twist has long observed how our relationship to money governs, dominates, and stresses each of our lives. Her Soul of Money Institute is dedicated to helping people find peace and sufficiency in their relationship with money. The video excerpt (below) provides an empowering perspective on how to see what’s unraveling all around us: Read more
Mar
13
The Benefits of Happiness and Positive Emotions in Reducing Risks of Heart Disease
March 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
Posted by: Kathleen Daniel
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 of positive personality traits like happiness, contentment, and enthusiasm on heart disease risk. While previous studies show that negative emotions are predictive of heart disease, researchers wanted to find out if positive affect is protective. They found that the happiest people were 22% less likely to develop heart disease than people in the middle of the scale, that those with the most negative emotions had the highest risk for heart disease, and people who scored highest for happiness had the lowest risk. Read more
Mar
10
Osteoporosis Drugs Like Fosamax May Increase Risk of Fractures and Brittle Bones in Some Women
March 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
Posted by: Kathleen Daniel
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 impact activities. As the femur is among the strongest in the body, the unusual incidence of fractures in Fosamax users prompted the FDA to require manufacturer Merck to include the warning. For the full story, see yesterday’s ABC World News’ Osteoporosis Drugs, Like Fosamax May Increase Risk of Broken Bones in Some Women. This is only the latest in serious problems associated with this class of drugs, called biphosphonates. Start with our report on the FDA alert last June warning of “the possibility of severe and sometimes incapacitating bone, joint and/or muscle Read more
Mar
9
Long Periods of Sitting Is Harmful for Your Health – Even If You Work Out
March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: Kathleen Daniel
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 ‘sedentary lifestyle.’ Their new model of “inactivity physiology” suggests that sitting, or non-muscular activity is in a class by itself – it’s not the same as simply ‘not exercising’. Actually, being sedentary – a normal day at home without exercise, carrying groceries, washing dishes, pulling weeds – is looking pretty good by comparison. From the New York Times: It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk Read more
Mar
7
Most New Small-Business Jobs to Have a Woman as Top Boss
March 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: Kathleen Daniel
According to Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, co-author of Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution, and CEO of 20-first, a company that helps organizations develop more inclusive leadership styles, gender-balance in their management teams and better respond to women as employees and consumers – one in three new US jobs in next 8 years is expected to be at a woman-run company Here are the stats from a recent newsletter: Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute predicts that about one-third of US jobs created over the next eight years are expected to be at women-owned small businesses, a projection even the Institute calls “striking”, since jobs at women-run businesses now make up only 16% of the total. More than half of all jobs created by small businesses Read more
Mar
6
Live Online Course with Carolyn Myss & Norm Shealy: The Science of Medical Intuition
March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: Kathleen Daniel
This is a special post for our special intuitives and Carolyn Myss fans. She is offering an online audio course with Dr. Norm Shealy, The Proven Power of Medical Intuition: Self-Diagnosis and Healing with Your Body’s Energy System beginning on March 16. I attended this course live with these two pioneers in energy medicine and medical intuition years ago, and can tell you that they are a fabulous and potent duo. They are focused and specific in describing energetic anatomy, guiding you through exercises to access intuition, offer perspectives on what may be blocking you, and they do it with trademark humor and compassion. Most of you know Caroline Myss as a legend in the field of intuition and energy healing, but it was neurosurgeon and first president of the American Holistic Medical Association, Dr. Shealy, who pioneered Read more
