Pilates Your Way to Mental and Physical Health

Pilates Your Way to Mental and Physical Health

Joseph Pilates knew, early in his life, that mental and physical health is intertwined. This principle was infused into the minds and bodies of every German student during their gymnasium years. In later life, learned that certain exercises could cure illness—especially those linked to excess body weight or atrophy. During that era, however, physical exercise for the masses was limited to labor and to the folk dances or games common to German culture.  (more…)

Paving the Way to Happiness

Paving the Way to Happiness

The search for Happiness is a universal one. And in the USA, our pursuit of it is guaranteed by the Constitution. Some of us seek it in material wealth. Some of us expect others to make us happy. Some wonder why happiness is so elusive. And some of us would not know happiness if it poked us in the eye. Most of us have learned that a smile does not necessarily mean that the person flashing it is happy. Many of us believe we have had a taste of happiness at some points in our life. (more…)

Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee – Maybe Not

Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee – Maybe Not

Back in the day when coffee drinkers ruled the breakfast table in America, it was unthinkable to suggest that this beloved drink might be laden with health risks. But in those days a cup of joe and a smoke went together like bread and butter. Today, even macho men know that the image of a rough and tumble cowboy enjoying a refreshing smoke on the open range was just a lot of smoke. That cowboy put another nail in his coffin every time he lit up. (more…)