From personal skin care products to emerging clinical trials, it seems like hemp oil has been gaining a lot of attention in recent years. This shouldn’t be surprising, as the incredibly useful substance and the plant it’s derived from have an astoundingly wide range of applications. In fact, there are direct mentions of the medicinal plant…
Health & Wellness
Merkaela’s 85 Top Yoga Blogs To Inspire You
If you’re looking for the best practical, insightful and educational yoga blogs, you’ve come to the right place. As you know, there is no shortage of quality yoga blogs found all over the internet. So, we decided to track down only the best of the best 2018 yoga blogs for you. Whether you are an established yoga expert or…
A Complete List of Affirmations for Soul Healing
Positive Affirmation Positive affirmations are literally important in soul healing and most importantly, in your daily lives. You have the power to help your body heal and transform it into a new reality. Affirmations are more than words. It is a personal intention, asserting yourself of the need to restructure perceptions and beliefs. You declare…
How to Effectively Practice Self-Love Starting Today!
Turns out most people are surprisingly clueless about how to effectively practice self-love. Though the vast majority of us can – at times – be self-aware, self-possessed or even a bit selfish, overall we seem to have no idea how to treat ourselves with a little love, care and compassion. This is a huge mistake…
3 Compelling Reasons to Exercise Starting Today (Besides Loosing Weight)
Regardless of all of the excellent reasons to exercise, sometimes we simply don’t know how to get ourselves to commit to it. After all, it seems terribly counterintuitive to exhaust ourselves on a regular basis for the sake of building endurance and getting stronger. But, no matter whether we like it or not, we do…
The Spiritual Side of the Winter Solstice
We’re all familiar with the winter solstice, which is, put simply, an astronomical phenomenon that marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. But, how many of us realize that it’s a biannual event, occurring on December 21st in the northern hemisphere and on June 20th in the southern hemisphere? Or that it…
Why Sleeping is so Important and Why You Need More Sleep
In an earlier post, we explained to our community the importance of sleep for mental and physical health and how sleep deprivation can lead to maddening symptoms, irrational thoughts, and mood swings (among other things). More importantly, we shared with you a few tips on how to sleep better, which we hope you are applying and are…
Preventive Care 101: How to Engage in Long-Term Preventative Care
Preventive Care 101 When it comes to your health, the best thing you can do is engage in long-term preventative care. Now, the term “preventative care” seems to have a lot of different meanings, which is why for our purposes we’re going to define it as taking measures that help you prevent sickness, rather than…
Understanding the Mind-Body Connection and How to Improve It Through Yoga
Although the mind and the body have been treated as separate entities for a long time, their obvious connection is now an undeniable fact. Understanding the relationship between the two as well as how to influence it can give us a lot more control over how we tend to think and feel. This is one…
Therapeutic Benefits of Mineral Baths Backed by Science
The therapeutic benefits of mineral baths have been known for millennia. You’ve probably even heard people remark how a nice long soak in the tub, comprised of exactly the right ingredients, can fix just about anything. There’s good reason as to why so many leaders of civilizations across the globe built public and private bath…
