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Mind Body Connection

We all experience the profound interconnection between mind and body--insomnia when we are anxious, fatigue when we feel depressed.

But once you learn how mind and body can befriend one another, the results can be nothing short of life changing. Read the articles below to tap into your body’s innate healing capabilities.

Quick Reads

Short on time? Looking for the latest research briefs, news items and topic tidbits? Click below to get started!

Reconnecting Mind to Body

The Art and Science of Life Balance

Get Inspired: Have a Heart

Open Your Heart

Go Ahead–Yawn!

Yawning can help you relax, focus and stimulate empathy.

What’s my alternative? -Reiki for Grief

Reiki can provide a much-needed release of the pent-up emotions causing physical pain.

Zen and the Art of Beekeeping

Many apitherapists are also beekeepers, since tending a hive lets them give back to the bees.

Quick tip!

Don’t be depressed—try meditation!

Placebo Power

Doctors use—and believe in—placebos.

Guided Meditations

A few more easy meditations to cultivate any time of day.

My First Time—Accidental Meditation

I am, for lack of a better term, a meditation dropout.

Mind/Body—Active Coping for Chronic Pain

Use active coping techniques like meditation and breathing exercises to manage your chronic pain.

Rest Your Head

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, 60 million Americans suffer from insomnia each year...

Relief from Seasonal Anxiety

Every fall I start feeling anxious and crave sugar. Why does this happen in autumn?

Heal Thyself—Mind Medicine

5 steps for less anxiety and faster recovery

Meditation builds strong brains

Apparently, people who meditate are a bit thickheaded-in a good way of course.

Heal Thyself—Ignite Your Immune System

Seven Simple Ways to Ignite Your Immune System

Be a Buddha to Your Back

Research shows that a Buddhist technique for fostering love and reducing anger can help reduce back pain.

Sweet Sleep: Yoga for Snoozing

A new study shows how yoga can help you sleep.

Meditation: Flowing With Grace

The best strategy for coping with change is to cultivate an attitude of willingness.

Read All About It

This section delves deep into the heart of the matter. Click below to read in-depth investigations, article features, cover stories, and the inspirational journeys of others facing this health challenge.

Beauty at Every Age

Child’s Repose

Yoga offers help for those with special needs.

Eat to Beat the Blues

Healthier foods can actually boost your mood.

No Need to Meditate Perfectly

Meditation—how one woman learned to let go and welcome stillness.

Life With Dystonia

One women’s quest to move through Dystonia using acupuncture and other tools.

The Emotional Connection to Tension

Tension and pain tend to be caused by the way we move throughout the day, but some believe we can store emotional tension in different parts of our bodies. Here’s what your body is trying to tell you.

The Virgin Queen

The right bed made all the difference to this princess’ sleep.

Good Grief: Use yoga and meditation to make sense of loss

Yoga and meditation can help you come to terms with the grieving process by allowing you to stay present and accept different emotions as you feel them.

You Snooze, You Win

Sleep’s beauty benefits are more than skin deep, so get enough rest to lose weight, avoid catching a cold, and otherwise enhance your health.

The Healthy Palette

Can expressing your creativity make you healthier? New research and clinical practice show how activities such as painting, dance, and storytelling help people heal and grow.

Outside Insight: walking meditation

Why take meditation outside? Hike, paddle, and ride your way to equilibrium.

The Spirit of Gardening

With research demonstrating that simply looking at a garden lowers blood pressure and stimulates relaxation, developing a green thumb might be a wise intention for everyone.

Healing Journeys, Wise Choices

Real cancer patients share their experience with natural and complementary therapies. Adapted from Definitive Guide to Cancer by Lise Alschuler, ND, and Karolyn A. Gazella.

Interpreting Miscarriage

No one really talks about miscarriage—especially her own—but keeping mum about it may do more harm than good.

Integrative Approaches to Reproductive Cancers

Alternative therapies may not cure cancer, but they can help women withstand the toxic onslaught of conventional protocols.

Eat, Taste, Feel

Teaching your kids (and yourself) the ABCs of mindful eating.

Inner Balance—An Asana for the Road

Yoga DVDs and CDs make your practice portable.

Healthy in the City

Fast-paced life getting to you? Get on the slow track for a more balanced lifestyle.

Studies in Hope

The power of positive thinking may seem trite, but for these four real-life survivors, a can-do attitude makes all the difference. That and the help of alternative medicine, of course.

Meditate Before You Medicate

Ayurvedic medicine calms ADHD kids and lets insomniacs sleep like a baby.

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