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In many ways, Bernarr Macfadden was the “father of fitness. He had strong opinions about how to avoid insomnia. Bernarr Macfadden started a magazine and a popular movement. The movement and magazine had the same name: “physical culture.” Watching what you ate and seeing that you got exercise wasn’t as popular among Americans before he…
So what do you call it when you know something without using your sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell? This poorly defined other sense has been called the sixth sense, extra-sensory perception (ESP), second sight, psychometry, clairvoyance, precognition, and intuition, among other things. It also often is referred to as a “gut feeling”…
In Islamic dream interpretation, the importance of “true” dreams was first promulgated in the 7th century by Muhammad, the prophet and founder of the faith. Muhammad believed dreams were important. This was because after he was gone further prophecy would only be revealed in dreams. The process and tradition of Islamic dream interpretation were later…
May all your dreams in 2020 be good ones! Don’t be afraid to make any New Year’s Resolutions. You never win unless you try. The Dream Recovery System
There are many reasons to eat moderate amounts of good, healthy food. Eating healthfully, however, can be challenging to do consistently. Anyone who has tried and failed at a diet can attest to this. It’s a daily conflict between the desirability of eating healthy versus the taste and convenience of junk food. As they say,…
Christmas is over but the Nativity story doesn’t end. On December 28 western Christianity celebrates a time when the Jesus’s family was saved by his stepfather. This incident came to be known as the Feast of the Holy Innocents. This incident as well as some other incidents in the life of Jesus’s stepfather, St. Joseph,…
Dream interpretation used in this way comes in somewhere at the intersection of art and science like so many other things. It’s building on the work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Fritz Perls, and others on what we know about how the brain functions. The art comes in applying the symbols you remember from your dreams to your life and your questions.
Much has been written about lucid dreams. More attention should be paid to guided dreams. Guided dreams don’t require you to be aware that you’re dreaming while you’re in the dream. They’re guided because there’s an interchange between your conscious and subconscious mind. When you get guidance from your guided dream, they’re an interesting addition…
As a species, we didn’t start out this way. We weren’t really meant to live amid all this light pollution. It’s progress in some ways, an irreplaceable loss in others. There’s no going back. Our ancestors didn’t have streetlights, neon signs, porch lights, and motion-detecting lights every hour of the day. Light at night has…
If you have a dream about snakes, it’s important to pay attention to how they presented themselves. Were they slithering and creepy? Was there just one snake or more than one? Did it seem wise? Did it tempt you? Were they twisting and moving along the ground? Did you come upon them suddenly? Was there…
For all of the constant talk of STEM in schools (science, technology, engineering, and math), you’d think our society would be completely based on the scientific method in all of its facets. You’d think government, business, and personal decisions would always be based on facts and studies. If you did, you’d be wrong. Concepts like…
You don’t always have to ingest or inject some substance to take medicine. Your body, wonderful living “machine” that it is, is like a compounding pharmacist—it makes a lot of its own. People don’t think of their body making medicine, but it does every hour of every day of every year. Your body produces a…
Informally analyzing other people’s dreams is a whole lot like analyzing their handwriting or telling them about their personality by looking at their palm. It’s not science. None of the assumptions can be tested and they take a lot of leaps in logic. Don’t take it too seriously. Keep it fun. Take inspiration from other…