Healthy Mind Heart Body

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  • Perception and Getting To Know Myself

    I am presently a bit obsessed with getting to know myself better. An exercise I recommend practicing regularly, since we are constantly experiencing, growing and evolving. Learning about and deepening awareness and understanding of self is imperative to growth and realizing potential. Most pressing of recent personal findings is a need to fix and heal…

  • The Immediate Benefits of Interval Training

    I am not a novice gym-goer. I am a novice, and puppy-eyed convert, to interval training. Currently, my favorite cardio workout goes something like this: get on Stairmaster, warm up 4 minutes at 90 steps/minute, follow with 2 minute sprints at 180 steps/minute – the fastest the machine will go – and 90 steps/minute of…

  • My Childhood Heroes

    My childhood heroes are a pretty impressive bunch, I must say! I’d be proud to be compared to any one of them. As a child, I was less inhibited by the internal and external motivations of an adult. Life was simpler, less complex, less confusing, closer to being true to myself. My young, innocent self…

  • The Many Colors of Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara is beautiful. A quick Google search or peek outside my window reveals cloudless skies over the Pacific Ocean and prominent Santa Ynez Mountains, streets lined with palms and purple flowers, Spanish Colonial buildings with whitewashed walls and orange clay tile shingles, and happy, healthy, eccentric Southern Californians with fire in their hearts and…

  • Vulnerability and Connection

    In my continuing efforts and struggle to make sense of my very own existence, I invariably return to remarkably rudimentary, yet paramount questions. Why am I here? What must I do? And, how may I actualize these concepts, and increase the ratio of pleasure to pain in my life? My wonder, pursuit and search for…