All in all, keeping my New Year’s resolution to exercise more than I did last year is becoming quite easy as my collection of exercise DVDs slowly piles up, providing me with an array of exercises that target different parts of my body as well as appeal to my various tastes and moods. The most… Read More DVD Review: Step-by-Step Bellydance with Leilainia
There is one thing I know for sure: variety is the key to my personal success when it comes to maintaining a regular exercise routine. There is something about doing the same movements every day that just puts too much pressure on the same spots in my body – and also starts boring me to… Read More DVD Review: Dance and Be Fit – Hip Hop Cardio and Hemalayaa – Bollywood Dance Blast
It feels like an increasing number of my friends are battling the blues. Having the privilege of being a confidant to many of them, I have had many occasions to reflect on what causes said blues. Reflecting with my friends, we realized that often, they become blue because they dwell on unpleasant things. We know… Read More Living Our Life to the Fullest: Choosing What to Focus our Thoughts On
Ever heard of the expression: “Jack of all trades, master of none”? It is an expression that hits a pretty resonant chord in a world moving at an ever increasing speed. Wanting to read everything, to attend everything, to fight every injustice, to back up every cause, we end up doing nothing, for the simple… Read More Jack of All Trades, No Master of Community-Building
I recently wrote a post in which I reflected on how empowering it is for a woman to realize that their desire to go to all ends to be beautiful, even if it does mean going through extremes, might have to do with an inherent, general desire to create beauty. Isn’t it so much nicer… Read More A Moderate Approach to Become Extremely Beautiful
I recently read an article, which talks about the relationship between poor housing conditions and the 25% of children in Montreal who suffer from lung disease, and suggests that the province of Quebec should invest not only in hospitals, but in home construction as well. Before, such articles would just make me so angry at… Read More Noticing the Glimmering of the Lesser Peace
Seriously, the stuff that people come up with is absolutely mind boggling. Take a look: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo]
Did you know that many diseases have been nearly eradicated in industrialised countries but are still endemic in developing countries? And did you know that some of these diseases are ridiculously easy to eradicate? And, for you sceptics reading this – you know who you are – did you know we have already successfully eradicated… Read More The Rule of the Final Inch: The Attainment of Perfection