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The Golden Ratio of Phi Applied to Nutrition

Phi is the Greek letter used to symbolize “The Golden Section, Ratio or Mean,” also known as “The Divine Proportion.” Mathematically, it’s 1.618, where

a:b = b:c, where b+c=a

This relationship continues on ad infinitum, as in b:c = c:d, where c+d = b.

As GoldenNumber.net explains, Phi (1.618) and phi (0.618, [...]

Always Learning

I’m always learning about myself with reference to other people. Take the weather last week – it was so hot that I would have loved it if someone had taken it! And yet some people I ran into through the week were in their absolute element in those thirty-four-plus-Celsius-degree temperatures that comprised Vancouver’s recent heat [...]

The Importance of a Fever

These days, we’re so reluctant to experience any signs and symptoms of what we interpret as “being sick” that we are actually impeding our immune system from functioning at its optimum level. In fact, we’ve been that way for so long that we have forgotten the importance of having a fever.

A fever is the body’s [...]

Sustainable Living Expo

Are you thinking about going to the Sustainable Living Expo that will be held this weekend in the NEW Vancouver Convention Centre at 999 Canada Place?

It runs on Friday, May 8 from 1pm – 8pm, Saturday, May 9 from 11am – 7pm, and Sunday (Mother’s Day), May 10, from 11am – 5pm. I’m looking forward [...]

Want to do Some Gardening?

There are more and more opportunities in Vancouver to do some gardening, even when you live in an apartment and don’t have a garden of your own. Have you noticed some of the community gardens springing up all over the city?

And there’s always an opportunity with the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation. Their blog refers to [...]

A Test for Your Virtual Age

Do you want to know how the lifestyle choices you are making every day are impacting your life? Go to Virtual Age by Poodwaddle.com and have fun.

Or sit up and take notice!

Best of health, naturally,
Nina

Self-Regulation Training = Autogenic Therapy

In their book, The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses That Promote Health and Healing, (c) 1988 and 1993, Caroline Myss, Ph.D. and C. Norman Shealy, M.D. set out seven short sentences that comprise “self-regulation training” or “autogenic therapy” or meditation. They recommend using these sentences once a day while sitting in [...]

Why Meditate?

Pema Chodron says:

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

page 16, When Things Fall Apart.

Best of health, naturally,
Nina

Going to Extremes

It seems we’re always pushing ourselves to extremes.

Yesterday, I was chatting with two friends who had pushed themselves to extremes in various ways. One had done too many lunges at the gym last Wednesday and had still not fully recovered. She was going around wearing her sheepskin jacket inside to warm her sore muscles. The [...]

Sorting and Tidying

Today is a day for me to sort and tidy.

Oh, I know it’s Valentine’s Day and I have all of that squared away. My Valentine and I have a pact, a contract, an agreement. So I can and want to get on with sorting things out.

There are all the boxes of files and bits [...]