Should Athletes Stretch Before Training or Competing?

Should Athletes Stretch Before Training or Competing?

Should athletes stretch before lifting weights, training or competing? This is a question athletes don’t ask often enough. Unfortunately, a lot of athletes get injured because they don’t have adequate knowledge of biomechanics and kinesiology, but neither do most...
Managing Sleep Challenges

Managing Sleep Challenges

It’s a huge challenge for so many people, particularly younger folks, to manage the essentials — getting adequate rest, eating high quality food and drinking enough water — just to maintain the proper balance between outgoing and incoming energy resources...
Awareness: Learning to Feel Our Emotions

Awareness: Learning to Feel Our Emotions

Many people have a hard time feeling their emotions, or even consciously generating positive ones. Our Western culture and, sadly, most cultures today don’t provide us with training to enhance our emotional intelligence. Also, we are generally unaware as to how the...
The Importance of Ritual

The Importance of Ritual

Throughout antiquity, our ancestors had rituals. These rituals are poorly understood by most people — even educated people today — but they were essential for the survival of people and nature. Either we are supportive or destructive of nature. This...