by Robert H. Shmerling, MD: You don’t have to look far to find claims that taking vitamin D supplements is great for your health… It’s supposed to be good for everything from preventing cancer and dementia to avoiding infections and heart disease. Unfortunately, many supposed benefits of vitamin D supplements remain unproven. Yet, millions of people take vitamin D regularly, thinking it will…
by Neeti Narula: Sitting still can be challenging, even for experienced yoga teachers. Practicing this short stretching sequence beforehand can bring some ease to it… Each morning when I sit down to meditate, I’m usually met with an internal resistance to stillness. As soon as I close my eyes, I suddenly have an itch on the…
by Kaira Jewel Lingo: At the core of Mahayana Buddhism, explains Kaira Jewel Lingo, is bodhichitta, the bodhisattvas’ enlightened aspiration to save all sentient beings… Mahayana Buddhism shares with all schools of Buddhism an understanding of enlightenment as the experience of freedom from all mental defilements and illusion and of touching reality as it is….
Puente Nuevo Bridge Ronda, Spain. Awaken Mother Earth Awaken Daily Quote Source: AWAKEN The post Our Sacred Planet Mother Earth in all of it’s Amazing Beauty and the Quote of the Day 175 appeared first on Awaken.
Kailasha Temple: The largest monolith in the world Over 200,000 tons of rock is of intriguing complexity and how it was dug to carve this immaculate monolith temple. How did they do this? It’s a marvel of engineering!! The temple carved from top to bottom from a monolithic rock is the most important feature of…
Tailscale, the Toronto startup that sells virtual private network software to companies, is updating its products to help simplify how businesses manage and track their AI use. The company announced on Tuesday that it is adding new capabilities to Aperture as it looks to help clients contend with the ever-shifting AI market. They include: a…
Cooking dinner has been very low on my list of priorities these last few weeks—and when it starts to feel like more of a chore than a joy, I know it’s time to shake things up with simple but punchy flavors that make even the most normal Wednesday feel like a special night. Enter this…
Affirmation, “I honor love as a space of truth, growth, and mutual freedom. I give and receive love without losing myself, trusting that what is aligned with my soul meets me with clarity, respect, and depth.” Love relationships are not random—they are meaningful encounters guided by the evolution of the soul. Each relationship enters your…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM An impressive $14.7 million from the city. $1.3 billion in economic investment returned. $1.4 billion in energy savings. 11,000 jobs created. Those are the results of the Philadelphia Energy Campaign’s first decade, according to a 10-year economic impact report released last month. The financing model that made this possible…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons. A honeybee brain contains roughly one million, packed into about one cubic millimeter. That brain, it turns out, can learn to tell human faces apart. The research goes back more than two decades. Across multiple studies, honeybees have been trained to…
