As humans, we all want self-respect – and keeping that in mind might be the missing ingredient when you try to change someone’s mind. Continue reading

How much time should you spend sitting versus standing? New research reveals the perfect mix for optimal health. Continue reading

Supporting ‘democracy’ is hard for many who feel government and the economy are failing them. Continue reading

Radical Optimism is Dua Lipa’s philosophy for dealing with life’s chaos – but radical openness is a better approach. Continue reading

When conception and pregnancy come with effort, or not at all, the risk is to set oneself up to feel like a failure or, alternately, to try everything in the hopes of being “good enough” to conceive. Continue reading

How extreme dieting can affect bone health. In a recent Instagram post, the actor Jameela Jamil revealed she has poor bone density, despite only being in her 30s. Continue reading

What to expect from the next generation of chatbots: OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Meta’s Llama-3. Continue reading

Cops on campus: Why police crackdowns on student protesters are so dangerous. Continue reading

My grandfather was stern and bitter. Earlier in his life, he had owned a business with his brother, and he felt that his brother had cheated him. He often obsessed about that supposed injustice, even to me as a little girl. He wanted me to know every single detail. Continue reading

One of the most powerful things you can do is a personal clearing of your own energy field. The following is an energetic clearing that Robin Duda, the soul alchemist I've been working with from Santa Fe, has supplied Continue reading

GDP is not enough to measure a country’s development. What if we used the Sustainable Development Goals instead? Continue reading

Why diversity in nature could be the key to mental wellbeing. Continue reading

The biblical character who goes ‘down the rabbit hole’ into an alternate reality − just like Alice in Wonderland. Continue reading

In Zen practice we do not treat our teachers like gurus to be worshipped but tend to treat them like wise aunts and uncles who’ve been scouting the trail ahead of us, perhaps made similar mistakes, and are offering us their condensed wisdom as guidance. Continue reading

TikTok users claim freezing bread can make it healthier – here’s what the science actually says Continue reading

Think you’ll never retire? Here are four things young people can do to prepare Continue reading

New studies suggest millions with mild cognitive impairment go undiagnosed, often until it’s too late Continue reading

New ‘cold war’ grows ever warmer as the prospect of a nuclear arms race hots up. So how did we get here? Continue reading

From skin to hair, scabs and even tears, the external appearance of the body can offer clues about the state of your health. But there’s another part of the anatomy that’s often overlooked: the feet. Continue reading

Paradoxically, the more passionate and responsible you are, the more likely you are to burn out since you’ll be unwilling to stop at times of being overwhelmed, not wanting to make others pick up the slack. Continue reading

Ghosted, orbited, breadcrumbed? A psychotherapist breaks down some perils of digital dating and how to cope... Continue reading

Our life is aa adventure... from the moment we are born (or from the moment we, as a soul consciousness, enter the baby in the womb), we are on a journey. It is a road that we have been on for... Continue reading

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… Continue reading

Imagine that you are one of the many seekers and free-spirited adventurers playing your part in the greatest investigation of all time: the quest to understand what we are all doing here in this world. Continue reading

The phrase “Get ready, get set, GO!” describes a formula for effective living. We screw things up when we leave out the middle step, by getting trapped on what I call the “see-do bypass.” Continue reading

I interviewed over two hundred people in more than 100 organizations. I ended almost every interview with the question: "It's easy to see what's wrong with the world today... So, I'd like to ask you to mention what you see as the three positive trends in the world - in any… Continue reading

Responding as “none” or “unaffiliated” on religious surveys, people increasingly identify as humanists, atheists, agnostics, or simply spiritual. If current trends continue, by 2070 Christianity may no longer be the dominant expression of American religion. Continue reading

What exactly makes a particular job an instance of “meaningful work”? Is it just any sort of work people happen to believe is meaningful? Or is it a job with certain objective features? Continue reading

An artificial sweetener called neotame can cause significant harm to the gut, my colleagues and I discovered. It does this harm in two ways. Continue reading

What is transformative change? Another political buzzword? The IPBES defines it as a “fundamental, system-wide reorganisation across technological, economic... Continue reading

I didn’t go to India to put on a Hindu costume; I got into Vedic teachings to uncover all the costumes I’d been wearing and to find out what I was at my core. The sacred literature of India explained this in a way that gave me the broadest understanding of spirituality I’d ever… Continue reading

Front yards are a staple of many American neighborhoods. But to what extent do yards serve as a window into the people who tend them – and how they feel about their home, neighborhood and city? Continue reading

Everyone has been there. You get invited to something that you absolutely do not want to attend – a holiday party, a family cookout, an expensive trip. But doubts and anxieties creep into your head as you weigh whether to decline. Continue reading

The path of awakening is different for everyone, and the truth is that there is no set path, as each and every one of us is unique. In the same way, no two people will require the same level of help or support to navigate their way towards sacred union with the divine within. Continue reading

The Academy Awards celebrated the film version of Oppenheimer's life – it took home seven Oscars – yet it dismally failed to address his decisive role in the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, and all the death and destruction it caused. Continue reading

Every midsummer’s night tens of thousands of people gather at Stonehenge to celebrate and witness the rising Sun in alignment with the Heel stone standing outside of the circle. Continue reading

Organizers of Earth Day are calling for widespread climate education as a critical step in the fight against climate change. A new report highlights the impact of climate education on promoting behaviour change in the next generation. Continue reading

The global food system produces enough food for everyone, yet, in 2023, 333 million people worldwide were food insecure and 783 million were chronically hungry. Continue reading

Today is Earth Day, but it’s one of the most confused and misguided celebratory days of the year. The UN refers to this day as the “International Mother Earth Day,” but what is it we’re supposed to celebrate? Continue reading

Energy is in everything and it is everything. Energy is in our homes, not just in the form of electricity, but in the form of colors, shapes, cleanliness or clutter, mood, sounds, etc. And the foods we eat... Continue reading

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… Continue reading

In 1995, nutrition therapists Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole wrote one of the first books on the concept of intuitive eating. That book sparked a worldwide awareness that the mentality of dieting disrupts metabolic health and leads to stress and disordered eating. Continue reading

Websites sometimes hide how widely they share our personal information, and can go to great lengths to pull the wool over our eyes. Continue reading

Stock markets signal a growing gap between Canadian and American clean tech firms. Continue reading

Good news: midlife health is about more than a waist measurement. Here’s why... Continue reading

Our research suggests eating an unhealthy breakfast could have a similar effect on your child’s school day as having nothing at all. Continue reading

As an interior designer, I focused my process on first understanding how people felt in their homes, and how they wanted to function there going forward. Sometimes that meant helping my clients embrace change. Continue reading

Humble leaders express their humility in three dimensions. They view themselves accurately and acknowledge their limitations. Continue reading

Gym hygiene guide: the dangerous bacteria that lurk in dirty fitness equipment and clothes... Continue reading

Ukraine is losing the war and the west faces a stark choice: help now or face a resurgent and aggressive Russia. Continue reading

If you’ve ever gone through a friendship breakup you aren’t alone – one study from the US found 86% of teenagers had experienced one. Continue reading

We cannot progress as a civilization, even as a species, without the understanding and knowledge of subtle energy. And, importantly, most of this knowledge is not even new. It is merely a rediscovery of the wisdom all ancient traditions and cultures possessed. Continue reading