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Sandra Kiume listed what she believes to be the 10 best online psychology videos at Psych Central with links to each video. You may want to check some of them out. I particularly liked Kay Redfield Jamison’s talk about her own struggles with bipolar disorder entitled, ” An Unquiet Mind: Personal Reflections on Manic-Depressive Illness.”
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A study conducted by the National Cancer Institute and published yesterday in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that those of us who are middle aged and older who consume red and processed meat on a daily basis are over 30% more likely to die within the next ten years than those of us who do not. What’s the take home message here? According to nutrition expert at the Harvard School of Public Health, Walter Willett, it’s to shift from eating red meat to eating white meat such as fish and chicken.
Read the full article published at the Washington Post website here
Want to know where to look for healthy recipes? You can find plenty of them at the following websites:
The food network’s Healthy Eating
The Mayo Clinic’s Healthy Recipes
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People feel more isolated than they used to, they also feel more threatened. The need for small communities that offer both significance and support to its members is increasing on a daily basis.
One hopeful response to this need has been the creation of common security clubs. In short, common security clubs offer members opportunities to explore how they can increase their personal/economic security through shared action and mutual aid, and at the same time develop friendships, have fun, and be inspired.
Chuck Collins, Director of the program Inequality and the Common Good wrote, “This epoch we are living in should be called ‘The Borrowed Times.’ We have been borrowing from the future to consume today. We have been borrowing from the prosperity and ecological stability of our children. We are eating their seed corn. Together, we must face these realities. Our economy will be very different. We can go two ways: We can retreat into fear, isolation, and scapegoating. Or, we can move toward shared abundance, strengthening what we hold together, collective action.”
I vote we move towards shared abundance and collective action, and forming a common security club here in Lewiston/Auburn seems like a very firm step in this direction.
To Learn More about Common Security Clubs you can read:
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“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life.'” Helen Exley
Arthur I. Blaustein put together an annotated list of contemporary novels that he believes will “enliven the mind and nourish the soul” and offer us “crucial insights into the moral, social, economic and emotional conflicts that are taking place in communities across America.”
You can read his article at OpEdNews here and or view the full annotated list here
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Some of my fondest memories of childhood involve my grandmother’s garden. It was magic. It rendered food. It offered places to hide among the raspberry bushes. It seemed to die every winter, and come back to life each spring. It felt like holy ground. It offered hope.
There are numerous practical reasons why growing a garden in our backyards is a wonderful idea and in addition to those, we need a little magic now more then ever. We need to be reminded that new beginnings follow endings. We need places to hide. We need holy ground. We need hope.
There are terrific resources here in Maine for those of us who need help in establishing and nurturing a garden including:
Lots to Gardens (here in Lewiston!)
kitchen Gardeners International (based here in Maine!)
Also, On March 28th, (next Saturday) the annual Maine Garden Day workshops will be held in Auburn. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn for both new and experienced gardeners.
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According to research findings presented by Ryan Howell of San Francisco State University, ultimately it’s our experiences (what we do), not our possessions (what we have), that contribute most to our overall happiness. Hmmm… Science reinforcing wisdom…
For more you can read:
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What a beautiful day today — sun shining, snow melting, spring in the air…
A good day to celebrate the simple pleasures, to say “thank you, and “yes!” A good day to attend to our spiritual lives through practices that integrate gratitude and affirmation and dance and even laughter. And so here’s my offering to you today, an opportunity to both laugh and an invitation to ponder some of the ‘bigger things’…. Here’s a youtube video to watch called, “Everything is Amazing and Nobody’s happy“
Have an amazing day, it’s hard not to when you open yourself up to the miracles that surround us…
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We have a new calendar of events that you can find here It not only lists events that occur at SagePlace but will include other events that we believe might be of interest as well.
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There’s an interesting article and video about NeuroStar Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a new treatment for major depression for people who haven’t experienced success with antidepressant medications. You can read more about it here .
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I have always been a firm believer in the power of music and other forms of art to not only touch, but to even transcend.
Here’s just one example. I’ll be adding more…
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Spirituality, Therapy, and the Good Life 