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Psychological Benefits of Meditation

Meditation is an ancient spiritual practice that offers significant benefits. As modern science discovers the wide variety of benefits of meditation, more people are adopting the practice. There are physical, psychological and spiritual benefits of meditation. This blog will address the psychological benefits of the practice. Meditation helps to increase serotonin levels in the body. Serotonin has been shown to influence mood and behavior. Low serotonin levels can negatively impact moods, causing feelings of depression and mood swings. Increasing serotonin levels helps to improve and regulate moods. Focus and concentration are improved with meditation. Whether you want to improve focus … Continue reading →

Instant Meditation

If you’d like to try meditation but aren’t sure how to start, here are some quick and easy tips for meditation on the go. Basic meditation in a quiet place: sit or lay in a quiet room without distractions like television or radio. Close your eyes and concentrate on your breathing. Breathe slowly and steadily — count to three or four on each inhale and exhale. Basic meditation with a mantra: sit or lay in a quiet room without distractions. Close your eyes and repeat your mantra — a short phrase, word, or sound — on each inhale and exhale. … Continue reading →

“My Son Has Juvenile Diabetes and Autism.” A Mother’s Interview

The following interview is with Ammey, a mother whose children have multiple medical and cognitive conditions. Of particular interest to me is her situation with her oldest son, Khy, who has both juvenile diabetes and autism. Ammey responded to my blog, Do You Have BOTH Juvenile Diabetes and Autism in Your Family? Here is her story. 1. Tell us a little about your family. My name is Ammey, and I’ve been married for thirteen years to my husband Mikel. We have three children: Our son Khy is 14, Kaine is 11, and Lilli is four. Khy has autism, asthma, type … Continue reading →

Meditation and Family Life

Ah…meditation. We’ve heard all the advice about how important it is to meditate; we know that we will fell calm and peaceful if we only take the time to let go of life’s stresses and learn to focus, meditate, stretch, chant, blah, blah, blah. To be honest, the people I know who are regular meditators are NOT people with houses full of children. They are either individuals whose children have all grown up, or they are childless folks who can not only meditate, but have altars and little fountains of trickling water right in the middle of their living rooms—at … Continue reading →

Your Priorities and Your Family

Often we allow ourselves to lose focus of why we are here and what we are doing. It is so easy to become caught up in everything we feel needs to be done that we forget what our true priorities are. It is important to sit down and remember the simple answers. We are here to prove ourselves to Heavenly Father. We came to earth to receive a body, and to return to him. Our priorities in life should fall along those lines. Another mission that many of us have is to raise a family. Then comes our service in … Continue reading →

Stress and Digestion

Stress affects most organs of the body and the stomach is no exception. Stress can cause those familiar knots in the stomach, some types of ulcers, constipation, diarrhea, poor absorption of nutrients leading to further ill health, and oversecretion of stomach acids. If all this sounds like a pain in the gut, it is! Of course, not all these conditions are caused by stress alone, but a person who is subjected to chronic stressors in their life will almost always suffer some form of digestional difficulty. It may be a sore stomach, frequent burping, heartburn or gastric reflux, or bouts … Continue reading →

Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking in May

Imagine the strange and jazzy layouts you can make celebrating some of these wild, wacky and unusual holidays. These have been collected and compiled from various sources over the years of my teaching and we celebrated many of them in the classroom. Celebrate them with your children and family and create fun and wacky layouts! The Month of May Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Awareness of Medical Orphans Month Better Hearing and Speech Month Clean Air Month Creative Beginnings Month Family Wellness Month Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month Freedom Shrine Month Get Caught Reading Month Haitian Heritage Month Heal the … Continue reading →

Who Am I And Why Am I Here?

I ask myself that question a lot. But I’m only going to answer it for Here being the Families.com Health Blog. The rest, you can figure out for yourself, and if you find an answer, let me know! I’ve spent a good portion of my life struggling with various health problems. At the age of five, we had to give up our family dog Sparky because my brother (age three) and I had developed severe allergies. And not just to dogs. Cats, trees, dust, mold, pollen… if it grows, we were allergic to it. I used to have a horrible … Continue reading →

The Role of Spirituality in Secular Homeschooling

Teaching your child how to be an ethical being in the world is something that every parent wants to do. As they get older, we also want children who know how to seek quiet comfort when they are in need and find joy and wonder in everyday things. The spiritual side of parenting and homeschooling is important, yet those of us who are secular in nature often neglect to discuss it. How can you encourage your child to develop a sense of herself as a spiritual being in the world? Practice ethics with your child. Whether it’s adopting rescue animals … Continue reading →

Money Attitudes: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

Occasionally I read books about money. Usually these are books about how to save pennies, like The Dollar Stretcher. Sometimes these books are about how to live a simple life. Occasionally these books are about investing. T. Harv Eker’s Secrets of the Millionaire Mind is really none of these things. I found it on the bookshelf during one of my annual Christmas purges of unused stuff. I decided that it would be worth a read before it went to the thrift store. The Millionaire Mind is about how your attitudes towards money affect the way you spend money – and … Continue reading →