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[BodySoul] Your Brain on Love
by Ronni Mott
Photo by Darren Schwindaman
February 7, 2007
The state of being “in love,” my therapist told me, is pretty close to insanity. A Jungian, she said that she would not take new patients who were in love; they were unlikely to make any progress. Now, she wasn’t referring to the deep love and affection you have for your long-term partner or your mother. She’s talking about the all-consuming, heart-pounding, wide-eyed stuff you’ve experienced during those first days of a new love—being madly in love—the substance of romantic poetry.
Excuses, Excuses
by Ronni Mott
January 24, 2007
When it comes to exercise, or avoiding it, some of us have creative, if lame, excuses—my cat will miss me, for example. For the most part, though, our excuses aren’t unique.
[BodySoul] Indigo Changes
by Ronni Mott
Graphic illustration by Jakob Clark
December 6, 2006
America’s baby boom generation set out to change the world in the ‘60s and ‘70s, and they succeeded. Marching together, they helped stop an unjust, undeclared war and made choice a legal reality for women. They also ushered in an age of increased self-awareness and self-help gurus in an effort to make the closely examined life a life worth living. Many of them, derided as hippies and cock-eyed liberal optimists, found their place in the world by eschewing the moneyed American dream and following their hearts and consciences. Today, their children and grandchildren are on the verge of changing the world yet again.
[BodySoul] Change Is Vital
by Ronni Mott
Picture by Darren Schwindaman
November 8, 2006
Lose weight, exercise, quit smoking—no one wants to hear it again. Most of us, especially when we’re young and healthy, just ignore the advice. We stopped listening a long time ago, and precious few of us are making any changes in our behavior, at the cost of billions of health-care dollars, not to mention the impact on millions of lives.
[BodySoul] Healthy Chic
by Tiffany Fitch
October 18, 2006
Brigitte Malaaya Britton, 49, was born in Morocco and moved to New York City in 1960, when she was 3 years old. She went to boarding school in Westchester and spent her summers in Europe. Upon graduating,…
No Easy Fix, Dang It
by Deborah Noel
Graphic Illustration by Darren Schwindaman
April 19, 2006
I no longer need an alarm clock. These days I can count on my body to wake me up in plenty of time to get an early start. But it’s not good news. Instead of a gentle beep, beep, I wake to a right hand and arm screaming in pain and yet numb. We’re not talking an “oh my goodness, it went to sleep,” tingly hand. We’re talking a “red hot, ice cold, stiff and feeling like a catcher’s mitt” hand. It always goes away once I get up and moving, but the problem is I have no choice in the matter of when I get moving. The silly thing has no timer to set and lately it’s been “going off” at 2:58, 3:26 and 4:44 a.m. Good grief. Time to research carpal tunnel again.
BodySoul: ‘Iron Wrapped In Cotton’
by Deborah Noel
Photo by Jason Jarin
March 8, 2006
BY ANY OTHER NAME:
Whatever you call it—T’ai Chi Ch’uan or Taijiquan (Supreme Ultimate Fist), T’ai Chi, Tai Chi, or Taiji—it’s still an internal Chinese martial art that comes in many flavors, each with its own special style.
Stanley Graham likes talking about Tai Chi almost as much as he enjoys doing it. And with good reason. Graham, who teaches Tai Chi, credits it with relieving his chronic pain, reducing his blood pressure, increasing his lung capacity, saving his knees, lowering his pulse rate and enabling him to lose over 100 pounds.
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