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This week we look at healing... healing ourselves, our family patterns, our beliefs, our physical body, and every single part of us whether physical, emotional, or spiritual. It's all one package, so when we heal one part of us, that affects all other parts. Healing our belief systems can help heal our physical pain. Healing our relationships and our attitudes, can help heal our physical ailments.
Everything in our body and our being is connected, just as we are connected with everything else on Planet Earth. Let's focus on healing... ourselves, our earth, our attitudes... so that we can create a world where healing, and love for all, are no longer a missing piece of the puzzle of Life.
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NEW ARTICLES THIS WEEK
Something We All Have in Common: Mothers
Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
One thing everyone on the planet (animals as well),have in common is that we all have. or had. a mother. Not one of us was born from a father's womb, or from our own womb
Healing Your Roots and Family Patterns
Anuradha Dayal-Gulati
Through repetitive patterns, you experience emotions that your ancestors might have experienced. Emotions are the connecting element between two worlds...
The Horrors and Gifts of Growing Older
Hugh and Gayle Prather
I’m beginning to notice a few unexpected benefits from looking my age.
Can Making Friends with Your Pain Erase the Suffering?
Wes "Scoop" Nisker
The first instruction for participants in pain management clinics is to begin to experience their pain, to feel the sensations, allow them, explore them.
Making a Conscious Choice to Be Wealthy
Corin Grillo, LMFT
If you have had a strained relationship with money in the past, this is an incredible opportunity for you to close out that tired old story and begin imagining what life looks and feels like when that money relationship is repaired and good to go.
Students Learn at an Astonishing Regular Pace
Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Humans have an incredible capacity for learning, adapting, and developing expertise in various fields, including technology, music, and academic subjects such as reading, writing, math, science, and second languages.
How to Understand Your Cholesterol and Metabolic Health Tests
InnerSelf Staff
In this video "Understand Your Cholesterol panel & Metabolic Health Tests - The Ultimate Guide," Dr. Rob Lustig provides valuable insights into interpreting cholesterol panel and metabolic health tests.
Outside Exercise Can Help Prevent and Treat Mental Health Problems
Scott Lear
Mental health problems affect one in five people every year. The Canadian Mental Health Association estimates that by the age of 40, about half of people will either have had a mental illness or will currently be dealing with one.
Two Immunologists Reveal the Marvels and Dangers of Cannabis Products
Prakash Nagarkatti and Mitzi Nagarkatti
Many people are rightly wondering which of these compounds are legal, whether it is safe to consume them and which of their supposed medicinal benefits hold up to scientific scrutiny.
How 19th Century English Women Wrote About Their Travels
Victoria Puchal Terol
In recent years, a series of publications, anthologies and documentaries have revived the figure of the 19th century English woman traveller. On screen we can also see their lives adapted to neo-Victorian fictional characters.
Children’s Webcams Are Being Targeted by Online Predators
Eden Kamar and Christian Jordan Howell
There has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse imagery created with webcams and other recording devices worldwide since 2019, according to the the Internet Watch Foundation.
Is Loneliness as Damaging to Your Health as Smoking 15 Cigarettes A Day?
Andrea Wigfield,et al
Vivek Murthy, the US surgeon general, warns that “being socially disconnected” has a similar effect on mortality as smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily.
Toxic Chemicals in Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Stay In Our Bodies
Amy Rand
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as ‘forever chemicals’ are used as ingredients that can make products waterproof, long-lasting and help them spread smoothly across skin.
How to Have Difficult Conversations with Your Teenager
Netta Weinstein
Important conversations with teenagers are among the biggest challenges of parenting. They can feel like walking a tightrope.
Can Watching Others Eat Junk Food Really Help Us Lose Weight?
Birau Mia and Carolina O.C. Werle
Can watching others eat junk food can suppress our appetite and help us lose weight?
Obesity Shortens Length of Immunity from Covid Vaccines
Agatha A. van der Klaauw, et al
COVID vaccines don’t generate as strong an immune response in older adults and people with weakened immune systems.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Immersion in Nature
John Welshons
May 12-13-14, 2023 - When we live in artificial, human-made, climate-controlled environments, we don't learn to tune to the flow of nature.
Can Deep Sleep Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Memory Loss?
University of California, Berkeley
Deep sleep might help buffer against memory loss for older adults facing a heightened burden of Alzheimer’s disease...
What Is Life Like for Wild Animals?
Heather Browning and Walter Veit
If you know anything about the experiences of animals reared in captivity for food, fur or human amusement, you might imagine that the lives of wild animals are idyllic.
Let’s Protect Nature, Not Just for the Sake of Humans
Simon P. James
Comedian George Carlin once said, the Earth will “be here for a long, long, long time after we’re gone and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ‘cause that’s what it does”.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Being Love
Michael Sky
May 11, 2023 - We can learn to purposefully and intentionally practice love.
Nature Can Help People with Drug and Alcohol Problems
Wendy Masterton et al
Growing evidence now shows that spending time in a natural environment could also improve the health and wellbeing of people with experience of drug and alcohol problems.
How Mothers’ Education Shapes Their Children’s Futures
Yue Qian and Yang Hu
Our new research shows that while decades ago, if a father was well educated, his child would likely achieve educational success as well, but this is less the case today.
Friendships between Men Are More than Just Beers and Banter
Damien Ridge and Alex Broom
Male friendships are often presented in the media and popular culture as relatively superficial, competitive and lacking in emotional depth.
Toxic Disinfectants and Cleaning Products in Your Home and Office
Courtney Carignan
Concerns about unnecessary use of a common class of antimicrobial chemicals used in disinfectants reinforces recommendations to opt for soap and water or safer products, my colleagues and I determined in our recent critical review of the scientific literature.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Purposeful Life
Renée Peterson Trudeau
May 10, 2023 - People want to feel their lives matter, to experience heartfelt community and know that they “belong.”
The Unbearable Allure of Cringe
Carly Drake and Anuja Anil Pradhan
Why can’t you stop watching TV shows, movies or viral videos that make you cringe? Cringe is the feeling you get when your boss cracks a joke in a meeting and no one laughs.
Is Aggression in Kids Related to How They Read Others’ Emotions?
Erinn Acland and Joanna Peplak
Overtly hostile behavior tends to diminish with age except for a minority of children who are at risk of later criminality. This makes childhood a critical time for steering those most in-need away from difficult life paths.
Beauty Ideals Were as Tough in the Middle Ages as They Are Now
Laura Kalas
After turning up at this year’s Grammys, Madonna was subjected to a vitriolic online attack over her appearance, particularly what was deemed her excessive use of plastic surgery.
The Republican Party’s Reaction to Mass Shootings and Debt Ceilings
Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Keith Olbermann discusses how Republicans in America are treating mass shootings like bad weather, as if it's inevitable and cannot be prevented.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Bend, Don't Break
Donald Altman
May 9, 2023 - Softening means that you can bend and not break; it means having an attitude of openness, willingness, and acceptance toward what life throws at you.
How Your Dog’s Behavior Can Impact Your Quality of Life
Renata Roma
Behavioural issues in dogs can cause distress by requiring extra time for training, issues when exercising the pet and limitations related to where to go with the dog and increased stress.
What Is That Voice in Your Head When You Read?
Beth Meisinger and Roger J. Kreuz
When you first begin reading, you read out loud. Reading aloud can make the text easier to understand when you’re a beginning reader or when you are reading something that’s challenging.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Trusting, No Matter What
Cissi Williams
May 8, 2023 - Just trust that all is well, whatever Life brings you.
This Week's Uptake
with Robert Jennings
The Republican Party’s Reaction to Mass Shootings and Debt Ceilings
Keith Olbermann discusses how Republicans in America are treating mass shootings like bad weather, as if it's inevitable and cannot be prevented.
This Week's Daily Inspirations
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Immersion in Nature
May 12-13-14, 2023 - When we live in artificial, human-made, climate-controlled environments, we don't learn to tune to the flow of nature.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Being Love
May 11, 2023 - We can learn to purposefully and intentionally practice love.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Purposeful Life
May 10, 2023 - People want to feel their lives matter, to experience heartfelt community and know that they “belong.”
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Bend, Don't Break
May 9, 2023 - Softening means that you can bend and not break; it means having an attitude of openness, willingness, and acceptance toward what life throws at you.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Trusting, No Matter What
May 8, 2023 - Just trust that all is well, whatever Life brings you.
This Week's Astrological Overview
Astrological Overview and Horoscope: May 15 - 21, 2023
Pam Younghans
This weekly astrological journal is based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.
See video section below for the link to the Video Version of the Astrological Overview for the week.
Videos Added to YouTube This Week
Video: Astrological Overview: May 15 -21, 2023
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