Category: The Human Spirit
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How compassion is good for your health
By Cynthia Milburn • Originally by the International Fund for Animal Welfare For those of us in animal welfare, we are intrigued by and do our best to analyze the capacity to have and exhibit concern for others, a trait called compassion, both in and out of our own species. Going beyond whether we feel…
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Practicing Gratitude on Thanksgiving is A Powerful Action for Health and Happiness
Thanksgiving can be about more that putting up with annoying relatives, gorging on a dead bird, and passing out in a football-enhanced stupor. In fact, Thanksgiving can be an opportunity to practice one of the most powerful health-promoting actions that exist. Giving thanks. Gratitude, it turns out, makes you happier and healthier. If you invest…
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Ruin is forever: When the precautionary principle is justified
Originally published on Resource Insights (ResourceInsights.Blogspot.com) by Kurt Cobb. Click here to view the original. If you are dead, you cannot mount a comeback. If all life on Earth were destroyed by, say, a large comet impact, there would be no revival. Ruin is forever. The destruction of all life on Earth is not 10 times worse than…
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Here’s why I’m so passionate about the food revolution
What we eat literally becomes us. It is one of our most intimate communions with the web of life. When we turn our food into a commodity that we consume for the lowest possible price and the highest possible short-term pleasure, without regard for the planet or the humans and animals who may have been involved…
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VIDEO: How Meditation Can Physically Reshape Your Brain
Neuroscientist Sara Lazar’s amazing brain scans show meditation can actually change the size of key regions of your brain, improving your memory and making you more empathetic, compassionate, and resilient under stress.
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The Neuroscience of Why Gratitude Makes Us Healthier
Our world is pretty messed up. With all the violence, pollution and crazy things people do, it would be easy to turn into a grouchy old man without being either elderly or male. There’s certainly no shortage of justification for disappointment and cynicism. But consider this: Negative attitudes are bad for you. And gratitude, it…
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Feeding Compassion: Highlights from the Food Revolution
Every day this week, my dad and colleague, bestselling author John Robbins, is interviewing some of the top food revolutionary leaders on the planet. This is your chance to get cutting edge information about healthy, sustainable, humane and delicious food — from sources you can trust. The Food Revolution Summit is packed with potent and…
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John Robbins Interviews Geneen Roth
Download MP3 Feeding the Heart and Soul In the past thirty years, Geneen Roth has worked with hundreds of thousands of people using meditation, inquiry, and a set of seven eating guidelines that she sees as the foundation of natural eating. Geneen has appeared on many national television shows including: The Oprah Show, 20/20, The…
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John Robbins Interviews Marianne Williamson
Food, Body, and Divine Perfection This interview was conducted for the 2012 Food Revolution Summit and was edited for inclusion in Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body And Your World With Food!, by John and Ocean Robbins Marianne Williamson is one of the world’s most beloved spiritual authors and lecturers, and…
