Senior Living Resonates with Song (video)

Moving tribute to active aging

“It’s a new dawn… new day… new life… and for me… I’m feeling good!”  Listening to Clark Retirement Community performing a lip dub to Michael Buble’s song, “Feeling Good” brings a smile.  This is America’s Got Talent for seniors – creative fun!  A testament to vibrant living!

Yoga Endurance and Stamina (videos)

Follow Along -- Get Fit

Yoga exercise made easy; watch videos from Howdini and Hubpages… better yet, mimic the movements staying well within your personal fitness and comfort zone.  Deep breathing is key to maintaining focus and extending the stretch.

How long will you live? (Interactive Calculator)

Estimate Your Life Expectancy

Northwestern Mutual Life developed this simple calculator.  There are only 13 questions. Yet, they can predict how long you're likely to live.

Schools Kill Creativity (video)

Educate the Whole Being

Sir Ken Robinson, speaking at TED inspires us to change our disembodied educational system in ways that celebrate the gift of Human Imagination.  Dancing and art have a profound influence on intelligence.  According to Sir Ken, formalized education strip mines the mind…Enjoy this fun video and take the message to heart.  Insist on frequent, vibrant movement at every grade level, during every subject!

You Can Heal Yourself (video)

Dr. Bruce Lipton

We Are NOT Victims of Our Heredity

Dr. Wayne Dyer and Dr. Bruce Lipton discuss natural healing through epigenetic control.  The readout of our DNA is controlled by our perception.  The placebo effect has a power influence over our healing.  Our mind and belief system provide a major healing process.

 

A negative belief can hurt you, as much as a positive belief can heal you.

Perception rewrites genes as suggested by this second video.  What are your thoughts?

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Pros and Cons of Every DIET

See the Scientific Basis of Each Diet Plan

Diet Spotlight is a truly amazing website, featuring analysis of every diet plan imaginable.  How do diets compare?  Are there effective diets?  Which diet is best?  Here is a reliable source of nutritional information.

Musical Fireworks Expands Your Brain (video)

Follow a Fourth of July 
Music and Movement Sequence

Mimic the intricate actions learning how music enhances learning as suggested by neuroscience.

Dean Ornish on Healing (video)

Reverse Diseases Naturally

Dr. Ornish weighs in on bad fat and on the Atkins Diet. He cites natural ways to reverse heart disease, cancer and impotency. Talking on TED, he reminds us to lose weight, feel better and get healthy.  Dr. Ornish is a clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute.

For a bonus, view Dr.Ornish talking about, "Your Genes are Not Your Fate!  Powerful stuff your mindbody!

Digest Hard Food Facts!

Jaw Dropping Truth about Foods!

Dan Brook, Ph.D., bitter-sweet food facts prompt positive action!  Visit Dan’s mind-boggling Eco-Eating website and read his astonishing Food for Thought page with topics: Facing Reality: Food is Political -- Be the Change: We Are What We Eat --  DIY: Grow Your Own – Surpluses and Scarcity: Feed the Hungry – Make it Happen:  Agitate, Educate, Organize!  Absolutely AWESOME!

Forks over Knives (video)

How a Plant-Based Diet Can Save America

This new documentary film currently in theaters is a must see, graphically showing how degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed by rejecting animal-based foods, meat and milk.  Interested in preventing obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, and erectile dysfunction, then read the article by T. Colin Campbell  and Caldwell Esselstyn cutting to the chase.

Dance to Your Heart’s Content!

Soothe jagged nerves, invigorate yourself!

 

Dance!  Follow dancer Paul Eugene, staying well within your fitness and comfort level.  Checkout the research on this Body Brain Boogie WELLNESS blog showing body-brain enhancements related to musical movement.

OK Go – Here It Goes Again (video)

OK Go

Creative Treadmill Exercise!

OK Go performs a highly choreographed routine on the treadmill proving that exercise is as much for the brain as the body.  Enjoy the spin – also watch in awe other works by OK Go such as OK Go – This Too Shall Pass… the creativity will knock your socks off. 

Singing in the Rain! (video)

Dance Through the Doldrums

Gene Kelly elevates our spirit, creating sunshine during cloudy days, dancing and singing in the rain.  This classic song resonates today, showing how joyful music and movement inspirits the body and brain.  Stand up now – join in.  
Feel the joy!

Tools to Track Your Health (interactive)

Calories, Exercise, Tobacco, Body Mass

Free tools are available on LiveSTRONG.com sponsored by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.  If you haven’t seen this informative site, check it out.  Sign-up for free and enjoy your journey towards higher levels of health.

Complete FREE Fitness Guide!

Useful Ideas from Nolan Ryan!

Fitness Benefits… Making Activity Easy… Finding Time for Fitness… Fitness Game Plan… Determine Your Current Level of Fitness… Fit Kids and Aging… Aerobics… Weight Training… Stretching… Sports Injuries…  it’s all here in a complete FREE guide on exercising by Nolan and Ruth Ryan offered by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.  

Fighting Fatigue (Videos)

Sleep Solutions from A to ZZZZZ

Web MD offers 30 short videos focusing on Naps, Teen Insomnia, Sleep Cycles, Night Eating, Sleep Apnea, Snoring, Jet Lag, Restless Leg Syndrome and many more.  Benefits of solid sleep positively impact body and brain function, including alertness, memory, and motor skills. 

Health Benefits of Nature (Slide Show)

Play Outside for Improved Attention and Health!

Health Care-toon by Ed Fischer

Evidence shows how childhood ADD/ADHD, obesity, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and excess stress can be positively impacted through outdoor physical activity.  Green exercise, playing outdoors has significant effect on health and learning according to the National Environmental Education Foundation.   James R. Roberts, MD assembled this research presented in a slide format.

Use a Treadmill Desk (Video)

Bring Movement to Your Workplace

Dr. James Levin from Mayo Clinic discusses ways to bring more movement to people’s workdays, including a treadmill desk; it allows people to walk while they work.  Other ways to bring movement to the day are mentioned.  Health benefits include weight management, and body and brain optimization.