The17 Day Diet Cycle 3...

by: Judy Panfili Valone Many of you may not know that there is an epidemic of obesity in America. Let’s stop and think about more than 190 million Americans being either overweight or obese which is around 2/3rds of Americans. When I think about this my thought is that Americans are really not healthy. Unhealthy or overweight people only lead too many health risks such as diabetes, heart, high and blood pressure to name a...

The 17 Day Diet Cycle 2...

by: Judy Panfili Valone Proceeding into cycle 2 and following the menu for that particular cycle as well as exercising which is mostly walking at this point as well as a few days of mixing Hip Hop exercise to switch it up. Half way through this cycle my weigh in has been a loss of 2 lbs for a total of 12 to this point. Now as I look back on the past 34 days of being on The 17 Day Diet if nothing else it has made me very...

No U in Love...

by: John Ptacek  Love is where you are not.   It would bomb as a pick up line, but it’s a concept of love worth pondering. They are the words of Jiddu Krishnamurti, a renowned spiritual teacher who traveled the world in the twentieth century extolling the merits of self-inquiry.   At first the statement comes across like one of those if-a-tree-falls-in-the-woods Zen mind benders, but spend a few moments with it...

Speaking Without Words...

  Speaking without words. We do it everyday whether it is a smile to a stranger to say hello, or a scowl to a child to tell them that you’re not happy with their actions. But did you know you also communicate in even more subtle ways? Sometimes your actions may even be subconscious.     Body Language Sure we may have heard of it but do we know what it means? One image that comes to my mind, when I think...

What time is the best time for a new diet?...

Have you gotten a new job? Moved to a new town or into a new house or apartment? Maybe you have made some new friends? If so, this could be the best time to start that new diet. Scientific research studies have shown that it is times of serious changes in their lives is when most people are more open to branching out and to try new things. New Choices Come With Change In one study of college students, for those who stated...

The relaxed state and science...

Queues and bottlenecks occur during rush hour in our cities. At other times of the day, the traffic is less active and therefore flows better. It is the same with the body and mind; when activity is reduced, we experience a less stressed and less blocked state than that which we normally find ourselves in with our daily chores. The states of consciousness were previously divided up into three main categories: waking state,...