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How to Make Sleep Your Weight Loss Buddy
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
My friend, Gail, has been a restless sleeper since childhood. "It's rare that I get a goodnight's sleep," she confided in me several years ago. Her weight has been a problem as well, spiraling upwards ...
How to make Exercise a Life-Long Valentine
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
I’ve seen it so many times—clients who started to exercise with enthusiasm dropping out 10 to 12 weeks later. “It’s too boring,” said one woman who actually lost 15 pounds in the process. “It’s just ...
How to get the Mind of a Zen Buddhist Monk
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
It has been 8 weeks since I started Bill Harris’ Holosync Awakening Prologue. And I must say that I have been pleasantly surprised by the results. I was not looking for gut-wrenching changes in my ...
Can Stress Be Good For You?
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
John has just been given the prospect of starting a new business overseas. He sits around moping; the idea of moving into alien territory fills him with dread, worry and anxiety. Fearful of losing this ...
Ginger and Garlic: Wonder Foods
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
When my son came down with a terrible headache and the beginning of a rasping cough, my daughter-in-law strode into the kitchen and made him her well-known concoction for colds and flu: pressed garlic, minced ...
Dreaming the Field: The Importance of Dreams
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
Seven months before my husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer, I was plagued by a series of unsettling dreams; some pointed unequivocally to his subsequent death; others spoke as oracles did with forked tongues. However, ...
Sleep Deprivation and the Elderly
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
My grandmother used to be up at the crack of dawn—not because she had to, but because her body clock had shifted to a different time frame with increasing age. My step-mother used to complain ...
Alcohol And The Aging Senior
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
It is New Year’s Eve. You have one drink, then another, then a third. You used to be able to chug down 6 drinks without consequences. But lately, you’ve noticed that things are a bit ...
Dealing with Post-Holiday Blues
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
After the usual pre-Christmas and post holiday celebrations, I found myself feeling a bit depressed and lethargic. The house has become too quiet; friends and family have returned home.
It is not uncommon that we ...
Retirement or Re-routing?
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
When I was in my twenties, the idea of retirement seemed a death sentence. Anxious to establish a place for myself in the professional world, I found the prospect of unstructured time terrifying and wasteful. ...
Why Do You Run?
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
It is a simple question from a seven year old that starts me on a life review. ”Why do you run?” she asks when I stop for lemonade at her make-shift stand, the one sporting ...
Why Starvation Diets Don’t Work!
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
It has become a familiar scenario: you start the day with black coffee; you lunch on carrots and celery sticks. You eat a mouse-size dinner. By the end of the week, you’ve barely lost a ...
Luck is an Attitude
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
A friend of mine who started playing the dollar-a-week lottery 4 years ago seems to have a knack for winning. He has won at least 5 times, each win ranging from $200 to $1000.
I ...
The Power of Voice:Speaking from the Body
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
We are all familiar with the power of intention and the energy of thought. Just as important, if not more so, is the power of voice—the momentum that emerges in our voice when thought is ...
Turning 50
By Mary Desaulniers · 18 years ago
I remember turning 50 with the usual fear and denial that accompany those of us who could not understand how quickly the years have sped by. Am I really turning 50 now? What happened?
And ...