Jun
3
2021
Prick up your ears
Although we think of hearing loss as the purview of aging rock stars, military vets who have been exposed to loud noises or simply the inevitable effect of old age, one of the most unexpected of the varied after-effects of Covid is hearing loss – most specifically tinnitus, or ringing in the ears.
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21
2021
The thoughtful megaphone
Lately I’ve been thinking about entrainment in healing - how the electrical signaling in the brains of people gets synchronized and becomes more powerful, particularly during a Power of Eight® group. When this happens, the frequencies, amplitudes and phases of the brain waves start operating in tandem.
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14
2021
When trees hug back
In 1997, a PhD student named Suzanne Simard claimed to have discovered something that challenges everything that we think about plants and whether they ‘think’ like us.
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7
2021
The end of allergies
A few weeks ago, when interviewing ecological medicine pioneer Dr. Damien Downing for our company’s Get Well online intensive on gut healing, I was completely floored by the implications of something he said.
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30
2021
Lobsters: I feel your pain
I was reading a book of essays by the late David Foster Wallace this week, and aside from marveling over his prose style, what mainly stuck in my mind was that this was a guy with a substantial set of balls for writing what he did in Gourmet magazine a number of years ago.
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23
2021
After the George Floyd verdict: let’s start talking
Now that justice has been done in the George Floyd case, and Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder on multiple counts, how do we go forward with this game-changing legal precedent?
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16
2021
Healing words
I was born with slightly weird hips, possibly exacerbated by falling off a ladder at the age of 21, but it seems to run in my family. My father had them, my aunt had them, my brother had them. My mother was the one who first noticed it. ‘You walk like a McTaggart,’ she once […]
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9
2021
Opening the prison door
Imagine growing up with the full capacity for normal – possibly even superior – thoughts and cognition, but never being able to communicate to the outer world, even to your parents.
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1
2021
A flashlight in the tunnel
During this extraordinarily dark time, where governments around the world have removed many basic human liberties for many of us – our right to visit family and friends, to travel, to work and earn money, to eat out, visit a cultural or sporting event, to disagree with government policy via protest, to even get a […]
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26
2021
Our bodies, our selves
This week, the UK Parliament voted by an overwhelming majority to renew the Coronavirus Act, giving the government wartime powers to pass laws without going through Parliament – or indeed allowing any sort of independent debate.
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