The First Anniversary - A Milestone
Your first wedding anniversary is an important milestone. A lot of marriages fail to make it that far. Some break apart due to unreasonable expectations. Others deteriorate due to a lack of commitment. By reaching your first anniversary, you and your spouse signify a partnership that is built upon love, respect, compassion, and intimacy. What's more, it suggests a bond that continues to grow. Below, we'll explain how married couples can build a relationship together that reaches the first anniversary. Then, we'll describe a few creative ways to celebrate the event ... read more
Yoga for Happiness and the Law of Karma
Yoga is a gateway to happiness. Through a proactive lifestyle, anyone can be happy at the worst of times, because internal happiness is a choice. If you talk to a survivor of a war, holocaust, or natural disaster, about his or her experiences, each one of them will admit they had to tap into their proactive will to survive.
Yet, within Yoga, there is an underlying belief that we should wait for life to do something to us, and then we should react to it. Some teachers will state that we should wait for the results of life's actions, which produce situations that may be either good or bad ...read more
Spend Christmas in Spain
Throughout Spain, a sense of excitement builds as the Christmas season approaches. In Spain the Christmas holidays include not one but three celebrations - Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the Day of the Three Kings, each with its own special customs and activities.
Traditional Christmas wreaths decorate the doors of many Spanish homes. Candles, branches of holly, and other Christmas greenery are also typical. Many families have adopted the custom of putting up a Christmas tree - a practice that originated in northern Europe ... read more
Can Cardio Make You Fat?
What?!
Hopefully, that was the first question that came to your mind when you read the title!
If you are like my clients & me, then you've been trained through excellent marketing from health clubs, cardio equipment manufacturers, shoe companies, sports drink companies, "fitness" magazines, and so called "experts" that all you need to do to lose weight is long, slow, steady state cardiovascular exercise. Run five miles, ride a bike ten miles, but the Acme Tread-climber-stepper-rower machine and use it 3x per week for 30 minutes per day and you'll get in the best shape ... read more
