Reality is a funny thing. On one hand, we know that reality needs to exist at some level. On the other hand, however, how we perceive that reality depends on a myriad of things. Our perception of reality is filtered by our thoughts and beliefs. The problem
Read more →Global warming and its co-dependent, global dimming, have been on my mind a lot lately. The health of Mother Earth has been steadily on the decline for the last few hundred years, and while many of us seem to be aware of that fact, it seems nearly
Read more →In my quest to learn how to heal myself, probably the most meaningful truth I’ve discovered is that the root of nearly every relationship problem we encounter can be traced back to the inability to unconditionally love oneself. It might not seem obvious, but if you had
Read more →People are smart. We come from a long line of smart organisms. In fact, if we look at the trillions of organisms living on and in us in our own microbiome, you could look at each of us as being a smart superorganism. Life on Earth has
Read more →Of all the cultural changes I can recall since I was a young boy, the increase in obesity is the most noticeable and alarming. I’m 50 now, and 40 years ago, I can honestly state that I don’t remember a single classmate being overweight. Fast forward to
Read more →If you’re living in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s likely that you’re enduring winter and not really enjoying it. Moreover, if you’re like a lot of people, you’ve either been sick, are sick or will become sick at some point down the road. Many people resign themselves to
Read more →Recently, a lot has been written about the paleolithic diet and how our bodies have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to prefer raw, whole foods. Longtime readers of Living Intentionally will no doubt recognize that I’m a strong proponent of such a diet. Agriculture as
Read more →I love the sun. I don’t go so far as to worship it, but I am fully tuned into our reliance on Sol as a species. Without this humble G3-class star in the Milky Way, we simply would not exist in the form we do now. At
Read more →The last few weeks have been chock full of me revisiting “old baggage”, unresolved issues that I either thought I’d worked through but didn’t or had put aside for another day. The range of items on this To Do list has turned out to be amusingly broad.
Read more →Over the last couple of years, the significance of sun exposure and how it relates to our Vitamin D levels has begun to become better understood. As well, recent studies have described how our immune function is affected by different wavelengths of UV radiation. The picture of
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