Category: Health and Fitness

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Hi friends! I’ve decided to share the fifteen coloring pages from Tiny Buddha’s Gratitude Journal (colored by yours truly), one every week for the next fifteen. I’m a huge fan of coloring because it’s fun and relaxing, and also serves as an excellent practice for mindfulness and stress relief.

How would you answer the question in the middle? What I most appreciate is how calm and grounded I feel whenever I’m in nature, particularly when I’m on the beach. Something about the rhythmic sound of the waves crashing softens the voice in my head and brings me fully into the present moment.

If you haven’t already, pre-order your copy of Tiny Buddha’s Gratitude Journal here, and you’ll instantly receive three free bonus gifts!

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April 10, 2017 – Technogym, the world’s leading wellness and fitness company, announced the amazing results of its ‘Let’s Move for a Better World’ campaign, a worldwide social campaign with a mission to raise awareness in the fight against obesity and sedentariness, which ran its fourth edition from March 13-31, 2017. 

‘Let’s Move for a Better World’ is the largest social campaign in the industry and embodies Technogym’s mission to improve wellness on a global scale. Thanks to Technogym’s cloud-based platform, mywellness, gym members in fitness facilities around the world joined forces to donate their movement and promote wellness and healthy lifestyles in their local communities and beyond. The more active the users were, the bigger the donation to the communities.

‘Let’s Move for a Better World’ participants logged their MOVEs, Technogym’s unit of measurement for physical activity, through the Technogym Ecosystem, which combines connected fitness equipment and the brand’s mywellness cloud, to take part in the campaign and add to the total MOVEs logged at their facilities. The integration of the Technogym Ecosystem also allowed users to enjoy a fully personali…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

In this episode of The Minimalists Podcast, Joshua & Ryan discuss their evolving approach toward social media and news media, and they delete many of their smartphone apps live on the air. They also answer the following questions:

• How do minimalists cope with the daily deluge of media?
• Which social media platform do you find the most effective?
• Is there an ideal newsfeed for minimalists?

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“The real you, the inner you, is pure, very pure. It understands. It has patience. It will wait forever while your ego trots all over everywhere trying to figure life out.” ~Stuart Wilde

There’s a common myth I think we all fall prey to: If something is important, it has to be complicated.

Surely, if what we want is easy—be it a business venture or a happier life—then everyone would be going for it, wouldn’t they?

Well, yes, in a way. But I’ve found that while the road to success and happiness isn’t always smooth sailing, it’s usually us who overcomplicate matters.

When we learn to get out of our own way, we might actually get the results we want a whole lot faster.

Slowing Down to Speed Up

You see, I’ve been aware of this idea of creating space, slowing down, and simplifying for a long time, but it’s only  recently that I’ve fully grasped what it’s all about from a deeper level of understanding.

Growing up I was quite a creative soul, and as I moved into my teenage years I began to write songs. It was then that I was first introduced …

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Dear John,

How do I stop feeling so hurt by others, like when family members don’t say ‘thank you’ or when I say ‘hello’ and people don’t respond?

Sincerely,
Ms. Locs

Dear Ms. Locs,

Thank you for writing in! Your question is a good one in that it speaks to such a powerful and innate need we all have to feel appreciated and acknowledged. It is a wonderful and beautiful wish to be seen, met, and heard in a way that confirms our interconnectedness with each other.

My response to your question is twofold. The first deals with working on yourself. The second focuses more on working in relation to the other. My hope is that my guidance can move you toward harmony in these kinds of interactions.

A journey towards transforming unhelpful behaviors nearly always begins with an acknowledgment of what is happening. The pattern you are describing is that you are getting caught up in feeling hurt when others do not offer you the gratitude and courtesy that your humanness deserves. Your feelings on this make total sense and, putting myself in your shoes, I would feel the same. As you likely know, it can be tricky to get others to change. Therefore, we’re going to zero in on those behaviors that you can transform and how you can ask for what you want with integrity.

It sounds like…

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I love this time of year for all the bright red, juiciness that is strawberry season.  It makes me happy to see these nutritional powerhouses return to the grocery store shelves.  Not only do I love the taste of strawberries but I love all health benefits they provide.

Strawberries are low in calories (only 54 calories per cup), have zero fat  and are filled with regularity producing fiber (2.9 grams per cup).  They contain potassium, vitamin K and magnesium which are important for bone health. A single serving of strawberries has approximately 150% of your daily requirement of vitamin-C which makes them amazing immune system boosters.  Their bright red color signals their anti-oxidant rich status  which neutralize the effects of free radicals in the body.  Strawberries are also loaded with potassium and magnesium, both of which are effective in lowering high blood pressure.  Be sure to buy organic strawberries as they are listed as having the heaviest concentration of pesticides on the Dirty Dozen list from the Environmental Working Group.

Below is a recipe for an amazing Strawberry Bread

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“The strongest hearts have the most scars.” ~Unknown 

Maybe it’s true, that the strongest hearts have the most scars.

And maybe the pain and the discomfort we experience in life can serve as a great teacher, if we choose to see it that way.

Everyone has bumps, bruises, and pains in life, right?

Things happen that are outside our control, and it’s up to each one of us to decide how these experiences shape us.

There are those who endure incredible trauma and pain and choose to use those experiences to see life differently. They learn from it, grow, and move on.

And there are also those that go through horrible pain and don’t have strong hearts. They have broken hearts that just stay broken.

What’s the key difference between those who are able to find meaning from their hardships and move on and those who don’t?

This difference is the very key that took my life from one big red-hot-mess to what I would define as true success—a life of freedom, happiness, and meaning, soulfully driven and led by spirit.

But it didn’t start that way.

I didn’t choose to be adopted.

I didn’t choose to have a ta…

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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” ~Mother Theresa

By passport and birth, I am Romanian. By soul, I am a citizen of the world.

I’ve always been fascinated by cultures, traditions, mentalities, and different ways of doing things and perceiving the world. So when I got my first working contract in Sweden seven years ago, I embraced it with tremendous joy.

Four years later I took one of the biggest steps in my life and moved to Shanghai. I was an Eastern-European woman leading a Chinese team, in an entirely new environment, so different from anything I had experienced before.

Today, I am sharing these insights from my current home in South Korea, knowing that I will start a new, very exciting chapter of my life in Mexico in a few months.

Looking back on my life, I’ve come to realize I was very judgmental of others. I expected others to behave in certain predefined ways, and I stereotyped people based on their country of origin. For example, I assumed that all Italians would speak a lot and loudly. All Swedish would be blond and shy. All Greeks would be cheese lovers, and all Chinese were supposed to eat dog meat.

The truth is, I was putting labels on people and seeing the world in black and white. As if I was the only one …