Maybe your idea of fun is gathering your closest friends for a rambunctious dinner party complete with high-energy card games and music thumping in the background. Or perhaps you’d rather sit at home, in the peace and quiet of your lonesome, with a bowl of air-popped...
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What Do I Need to Start Meditating?
Meditation doesn’t require much. But it’s easiest to get started knowing these meditation basics: What matters most is consistency. Ideally, we meditate a few times a week or daily. But even completing one meditation can lead to a reduction in mind wandering. We’ll...
Hope is Beneficial and Important for Us
Hope is Beneficial and Important for Us Whenever we talk about optimism, pessimism, and realism… hope is always related to these words. Hope for life provides us happiness and health.Hope helps us to control our emotions, improves immunity, alleviates all over health,...
Benefits of Service Dogs
Canine Partners for Life works to improve the quality of life and increase independence of those with disabilities by pairing them with professionally trained service dogs. People with disabilities can boost all aspects of their lives with service dogs, who execute...
Why is Walking Good for You?
Why Is Walking So Good For You? Here's What Studies Show. Research shows the more you walk, the more health benefits you'll experience. It can be a bit daunting trying to get in the recommended amount of exercise each week. “Everyone should do daily activity and...
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Allow Nature to Inspire You
Allow Nature to Inspire You By Jenna Weiss R-DMT, LNHA, Director of Learning at LiveWell “When we ask nature, first we quiet our human cleverness. Then we ask, and then we listen. The answer is the echo that bounces off of the land herself. With the solution in hand,...
Yes, You Can Live Life Well With Dementia
The phrase living well and dementia don’t traditionally arrive in the same sentence. It’s time to change that.
According to my friend and colleague Bob Savage, who is self-proclaimed ‘living well with Alzheimer’s”, the first step is to listen.
4 Surprising Benefits to Playing Music
Researchers from across the country extoll the benefits of playing a musical instrument like it’s the physical fitness of brain work-outs.
