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August 24, 2014

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Balancing The Brain And The Power of Choice

Where do the left brain and right brain meet, and what purposes do they each have to serve? Tami Simon of Insights at the Edge interviews Harvard-trained neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, who in 1996 experienced a severe brain hemorrhage that shut down her left brain and its constituent centers of language, movement and memory. Dr. Jill shares her reflections on this experience and its implications for all of our day to day lives. { read more }

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Take a moment to thank your neuro-circuitry for all it does, from waking you up, to helping you connect with the world.

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August 23, 2014

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Casa De Paz: Oakland’s House of Peace

36th Avenue in the Fruitvale district of East Oakland, California, is the turf of three major gangs. Yet the residents of Casa de Paz never lock their doors. Anchored by Pancho Ramos Stierle and Adelaja Simon, Casa de Paz is part of a group of several homes that form an intentional community of peace and nonviolence in an area rife with structural and physical violence. In order to serve their community, they live with the people — laugh with them, cry with them, and eat with them. They embody “giftivism” — practicing radical acts of generosity that changes the world, one heart, one home, one block at a time. { read more }

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Who constitutes your community? How can you better nourish and support each other?

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August 22, 2014

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James Doty’s Helper’s High

Happiness comes from a having a purpose, or at least, that is what James Doty’s life exemplifies. Founder of a compassion research center at Stanford University, or CCARE, Doty gave up a billion dollar company and has dedicated his life to not only serving others, but creating the high-level research that suggests that happiness is found in what we give, not in what we get. An atheist, his findings are deeply moving and align nonetheless quite closely with the wisdom traditions, providing a needed scientific basis for acts of care. We work for the greater good because it makes life better for everyone, in which our own good is included. { read more }

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Compassion and purpose are about strong relationships. Make someone a cup of tea today, and give them your full, one-pointed attention as you listen to what they have to say.

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August 21, 2014

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This Is Your Brain On Food

Should the Hippocratic maxim “Let food be thy medicine” apply to mental health care? According to recent research on the effect of diet and nutrition on the health of the brain, the answer may be, “Absolutely!” After more than half a century of depending primarily on prescription drugs for relief, the medical and psychiatric community is rediscovering the numerous connections between food and mental illness. Read on to learn more about food may become an integral part of holistic mental health care. { read more }

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Resolve to slowly start cutting out processed foods from your diet, not only for your physical health but for your mental health as well.

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August 20, 2014

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Songwriting With Soldiers

A chance meeting with a soldier after performing in a hospital in Germany inspired songwriter Darden Smith to work with members of the military to turn their stories into music. Smith now runs Songwriting With:Soldiers, a non-profit organization which pairs veterans and troops with professional songwriters in a peaceful environment. The service members share their stories and the songwriters mold them into lyrics and set them to melody. “We all have a story,” Smith says. “When we listen, and listen well enough to take the solders’ words and turn them into art, and sing it back to them, something happens. What it is, I don’t know. I’m a songwriter, not a therapist. But something happens, and it’s powerful.” { read more }

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Find a song that expresses how you feel about a loved one and share that song with them.

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August 19, 2014

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The Power of Hobbies

When thinking of ways to create a better and healthier lifestyle, oftentimes people tend to think in terms of cutting back on certain choices, be it eating desserts, drinking alcohol, or perhaps just sitting on the couch watching TV. But one area in life that has been almost cut out entirely is something that actually should have never been cast aside –having a hobby. Not only is it a fulfilling, sometimes creative outlet, but it is also beneficial to your overall health. { read more }

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Slowly make a point to began an activity that you’ve always found interesting – be it gardening, cooking, reading, or participating in some type of sport.

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August 18, 2014

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How We Grieve: Learning To Live With Loss

John Updike wrote in his memoir, “Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?” And yet even if we were to somehow make peace with our own mortality, a primal fear rips through whenever we think about losing those we love most dearly — a fear that metastasizes into all-consuming grief when loss does come. In The Long Goodbye, her magnificent memoir of grieving her mother’s death, Meghan O’Rourke crafts a masterwork of remembrance and reflection woven of extraordinary emotional intelligence. Read more… { read more }

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This week remember the livingness of those you love and loved, rather than fear or grieve their loss.

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