meditation

Healthy and "happy" things in your head are always good and desirable, right? I'd say so! I'm not really sure why the pineal gland was not a bigger topic in my formal education (occupational therapy, mid 1990s, Colorado State University and before that K-12 in the biggest school district in Colorado. The curriculum came in big boxes to the teachers and they were teaching what was mostly set up for them to educate us about.) I started hearing about it when I started talking to other medical professionals about fluoride and the effects fluoride has on the body.  read more »

This Father's Day, 2013, my third without having a living father on planet Earth to celebrate with in person, I was intrigued by Oprah's Super Soul Sunday being advertised. The guest today was NBA legendary coach Phil Jackson, who has written a book called Eleven Rings -- The Soul of Success.
 read more »

February is heart month, and a perfect time to write about HeartMath®. It's about hearts and flowers, perhaps, for your loved one, and about a focus on heart health, and it is the inspiration for these thoughts about heart-felt health. 
 read more »

This is an excellent link at Oprah.com; part of what Lumigrate does for YOU is narrow down the search for valid, progressive resources.  So please go and see what you see! Jon Kabatt-Zin is where I started with meditation in the mid 1990s so I am a huge fan of his, and you'll see two links from the place the link takes you to are 'from' him.  read more »

What I work to do at Lumigrate for YOU, the reader/ user/YOUser / consumer who comes here, is distill down the best information and link to the 'good wheels out there' on a variety of topics, focusing on ones you likely would not find otherwise, while bringing a cadre of people I 'know' professionally.    read more »

Stress is known as the silent killer. It impacts everyone in a variety of ways, and most of which do not appear to be stress-related but truly are. When a person is stressed out, the stress has huge negative effects on the human body. In addition, I use the term 'person' loosely, because yes... kids do have stress too. Being the young age of 24, it is understood that I have a lot of stress and even more on my plate; however, it would be superficial to say that my students (who are 6^th graders) do not have stress.  read more »

I really like this video, put out by the YesPlus organization, which is about meditation and how it was a mainstay in the old, old times, then got diluted and then picked back up again; briefly shows the effects it has on the mind/body/spirit, which is the type of medicine we like here at Lumigrate.  Their take home message is that meditation makes you feel better and people who feel better have more positive connections in their community, which then has .... as you can see it ...  read more »

Reduce chronic pain, fatigue, and insomnia through a deep mindful relaxation journey that heals, renews, and transforms. 
 read more »

I have been enjoying the Mooji videos immensely and wanted to share this one with my friends at Lumigrate.  What a joy to watch a whole room of people 'get it'!

Laughing Buddhas 2 

Mooji is now my teacher on my path to realizing the dream embedded in this post (see link below "Sitting with Joy: Nothing Left to Lose) that was first made on the Virtual Teahouse, then updated for Finding Ground and now...here!  read more »