A beautiful sun rises over the running track early in the morning. I took this photo in early summer. Now that we’re turning toward autumn, the sun is rising around the same time as when I snapped this. I like running in the morning, but I know many people who can’t fathom working out so [...]

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Stephanie Klein reposted her 2004 entry for 9/11 today. I’m responding to her post with this one because I think what she’s saying is truly important. She writes: Last night I opened The Joy Diet by Martha Beck.  I opened it to a random page, as if I were cutting a deck of cards. Figure [...]

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Watching the Olympics last night, I noticed something that I had never noticed before. Many of the women about to compete in the hurdles competition were swinging their arms and seemed to be talking to themselves while they gazed down the track. What they were most likely doing was visualizing their race – running it [...]

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Are you a mindless eater? Are you sure you’re not? Maybe you won’t admit it. Even if you don’t think you do on a regular basis, chances are you’ve eaten mindlessly before. Most people have. If you’ve ever eaten anything in front of your TV, in a movie theater, in a car, in front of [...]

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Some links around the web of interesting articles, sites to add to your delicious life: Eating Chinese bitter melon might help people with Type 2 diabetics. Al Gore was on 60 Minutes Sunday night talking about his latest Global Warming campaign. Join his campaign here. Scientists are studying whether meditation has a tangible affect on [...]

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It’s Ash Wednesday, and there are many people walking around midtown with black smudges on their foreheads. There are a few people in my office, too, who had gone to church that morning to commemorate the beginning of the season. Just for fun, a few colleagues who sit near me decided on Tuesday that they [...]

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I went to see Donna Eden speak Monday night. She was pretty amazing. In her book, she says something like, “My mother said I was born smiling…” and it seemed true – she just radiated positive energy, especially when she was smiling which was most of the time. I had just picked up her book, [...]

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