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August 24

Meditation

by Lynn A. Anderson @ 9:34 am. Filed under fitness, Health, life, spiritual, yoga
You are used to listening to the buzz of the world, but now is the time to develop the inner ear that listens to the inner world. It is time to have a foot in each world, and it can be done. – Saint Bartholomew With the practice of yoga we can learn to have our feet firmly planted in both worlds. We can live our lives in the physical world with complete awareness of the inner fortitude of the soul. Meditation is the method we use to reach a place of quietude and this place of quietude leads to awareness of our inner world. More…
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Risk-taking means writing your life history at 85, climbing a peak or taking sailing lessons at 80, serving in local government or baby-sitting at 90. Risk-taking is buying a pet, dating again after widowhood, learning to square dance or waltz, or buying a convertible. You've got to have the guts to grow old. ... View slideshow >>

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Exercise & Fitness

Exercise for Three More Years of Life

Posted April 28, 2008 1:24 PM

People who exercise can add three years to their lives, and their hearts reap benefits from something as simple as brisk walking a half-hour a day, two studies suggest. Three years of extra life: It's a very clear message that makes it easy to grasp what might be the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle, said Dr. Oscar Franco, coauthor of one of the studies and a researcher at Erasmus Read more...

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Books

'Life Is Meals': A Food Lover's Book of Days

Posted August 27, 2007 3:45 PM

By Jesse Kornbluth Founder, HeadButler.com "The meal is the essential act of life. It is the habitual ceremony, the long record of marriage, the school for behavior, the prelude to love." If you have ever read James Salter -- and you would do well to read at least his first novel, A Sport and a Pastime, and Last Night, his most recent book of short stories -- you Read more...

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Career Transitions

'What Can I Do With My Career?'

Posted August 27, 2007 3:45 PM

By Tony Charles Looking back over the large part of my career when I have been involved with delivering and managing career counseling in either the public or private sectors, one question seems to come up more than any other. That question, in some shape or form, is, "What can I do with my career?" It's a question that comes up at all stages of the employment life cycle -- when Read more...

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'The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life'

Posted August 27, 2007 3:45 PM

By Jesse KornbluthFounder, HeadButler.comIn a recent poll, 40 percent of the Americans interviewed said that they had no savings at all. And those Americans are not unusual; only one in four workers over 55 years old has invested assets of more than $100,000. Which isn't to say we're sitting on our hands -- instead of saving and investing, we borrow.Since 1990 -- just 15 years ago -- household Read more...

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Weight Loss

Bad News, Girls: Dieting Makes Cellulite Worse

Posted August 27, 2007 3:40 PM

By Victoria Bone Cellulite is a fact of life -- and trying to lose weight can make it even worse, say researchers. The depressing findings follow a study by U.S. scientists into popular "remedies" for a problem that affects 85 percent of women. They tested treatments including low-fat and liquid diets, medication -- and surgical procedures such as stomach Read more...

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Sex

How to Keep Your Sex Life Sizzling After 50

Posted August 27, 2007 3:40 PM

It's not just our priorities that change as we get older -- so do our needs and desires. After you hit 50, sex may fall from somewhere near the top of your wish list to near the bottom -- somewhere behind a long soak and a nice glass of wine. There are lots of reasons, both physical and psychological, why your sex drive may go off the boil, but they are nearly always treatable. Tackle them, Read more...

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