Here you’ll find posts about health, wellness, exercise, beauty, even fashion … all the things of the body. As women of a certain age, we do have a heightened concern about our bodies … we want them to be in good health, and we want to appear well in them. That can take a lot of effort and thought.
I divided this blog into four sections: body, heart, mind, spirit — the idea being to run the gamut, from the physical world to the metaphysical.
There is much in the physical world: yoga, hiking, work, money, beauty and haircare, decorating your house, celebrating holidays. Sometimes it seems my whole world is focused on the material.
But I do believe a strong and healthy body is foundational to good life and what’s more, connected to spiritual welbeing. In more than one spiritual tradition, the body is the gift of the Divine Being for us to learn about various spiritual realities. As the Christian Bible says, “your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, therefore glorify God who is in your body.”
Therefore, concern about health and the body isn’t unspiritual. It’s just our physical world. As one of my good friends told me, “you’re not a physical being having a spiritual experience, you’re a spiritual being having a physical experience.” As in, when you live in this world, in this form.
So blog posts in this category will seek to help us make the most of our physical life, in all the manifestations.
Having a good evening routine helps you get to sleep, stay asleep, and wake up ready for the new day. But for a long time, I viewed evening as a kind of “free for all time” when I would do whatever I thought would be fun. Too often I would be clicking around on the […]
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Having tackled A Springtime Reflection on Going Forward, it’s time for really serious questions. Such as the best color of shoes to wear with the little black dress. This is a problem with many correct answers. The canonical answer is going to be black shoes. First image is form instyle.com. The reason is maintaining the
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Dinner. It’s More Important than Either You or I Thought This is my roundup post about dinner. I’ve been thinking about dinner a lot these days, and not just because I’m hungry. Dinner is more important than I thought. And it’s hard to get a “real” (three course, meat, starch, and vegetable) dinner together every
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What is the plank exercise challenge and what could plank pose do for you? Plank pose helps you have a flat stomach, lose weight and walk gracefully. This week during conference night those of us who don’t do conferences came up with the idea of plank exercise challenge. I was with the specials team (that
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“How many minutes of pilates a day” and “is 20 minutes of pilates a day enough” are great questions for those of us who want to be fit. Because exercising is probably number one in my plan for having good health. Now I have to admit … I’ve only done Pilates once. It was offered
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And how I maintained my weight all these years … drinking tea All this noise about intermittent fasting has brought forth the question of what, exactly is fasting? In a world of so-called “cheat days,” are there cheat foods for fasting diets? First: Will Tea Break Your Fast? First of all, the basic answer is
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I know, this is pretty simple stuff … but back to my cooking philosophy: so much of the world of food is get-it-done, working. Such as it is for cottage potatoes, and such it is in my recipe for pancakes in a skillet. Somewhere else on the web I read that you don’t fry pancakes,
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I was minding my own business reading a surf blog when suddenly the author interjected negative sentiments about yoga, “a holistic discipline that combines physical postures and ethical principles to promote physical and spiritual well-being. It does very few of these things in my experience except breed a superior minded person with stretched out tendons,”
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There are some studios that have rules, such as “instructors only in the first row …
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I have pretty good health these days. How did I get there? Luck, maybe. What do we need to do to stay that way? Ive been reading a lot on being healthy over 50 lately. It seems a natural concern. Who would argue about health? When I was young, I was a hopeless hypochondriac, and
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