Staring at a screen for along time, the chest naturally relaxes inward, restricting your breathing. These breathing exercises will introduce a rush of oxygen which will reinvigorate you if you’re tired, and the single nostril breathing is remarkably calming.
Category Archives: living well
STAYING FIT OVER SIXTY
Finding a routine that can be sustained indefinitely, or changed every week, was a creative challenge, but we’re old enough to do what we like and not give a damn, right?
Why Yoga?
The body is a giant signal of well-being, and doing yoga gives it a way to send that signal loud and clear.
My Four Rules for 2016
This afternoon I went to a restorative yoga session . Perhaps I was meant to be listening to my breath during the meditations, but instead I came out of it with four rules for the new year.
Protect myself
Do my job
Seek moments in which to receive and to give kindness
Seek new experiences
In that order.
An ordinary human thinks about GMOs
I do trust my senses of taste and smell, and my abilities to follow a logical trail from sterile seeds to trouble.
Advice to the lovelorn
“You will find not what you want, but what you are.”
The Secret of Life
Georgie floats like a cork on life. She says, “I don’t remember any of those things. I just get up every morning and say my prayers to thank God that I am here. I take one day at a time. I don’t worry.” That’s as deep as it gets.
Maybe Georgie knows the secret of life. If so, I am not going to survive to 102.
The indispensable writing group
Writing groups are not only desirable; they are indispensable.
A SAD GOOD-BYE TO PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
The words “addict” and “greatest actor” don’t go together comfortably in our minds. Addicts are down and out, they’re criminals, you don’t want to be around them. They’re dirty and dangerous. But then, there’s Philip Seymour Hoffman. Years ago, I saw a film about programs in The Netherlands and Switzerland under which addicts are treatedContinue reading “A SAD GOOD-BYE TO PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN”