Tag: healing

The Profound Healing Effects of Joy, Beauty, and Hope

Shen Yun Performing Arts is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. According to its website, it was established in New York by elite artists inspired by a shared mission—to bring back the lost world of traditional Chinese culture. The performance is meant to entertain and uplift audiences, yet many have reported an…


Aloe Vera, a Primer

Common Names: aloe Latin Names: Aloe vera, Aloe africana, Aloe arborescens, Aloe barbadensis Background Aloe is a cactus-like plant that grows in hot, dry climates. It is cultivated in subtropical regions around the world, including the southern border areas of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Historically, aloe has been used for skin conditions and was thought to improve baldness…


The Neuroscience of Compassion

Neuroscientists are affirming what people have known for centuries: We can train our brain for compassion. Ancient practices include cultivating compassion; in modern parlance, we say we can retrain the brain. These changes can increase our capabilities for love, happiness, and success. Once you learn how easy it is to rewire your brain for compassion,…


The Sound of Healing: Sound Used as a Therapeutic Treatment

Can sound be used as a therapeutic treatment? While it remains to be a generally unorthodox idea in allopathic medicine, it is far from new. Throughout human history, ancient cultures venerated the act of creating sounds and strongly believed that specific resonant frequencies can produce healing effects. Ancient mythologies looked at sound not merely as…


Diving Deep to Help Veterans Heal—Underwater

In the spring of 2014, while returning from “a whirlwind RV road trip” to his sister’s wedding, Josh and Neysa Grzywa and their two children learned that two more of Josh’s military “brothers” had committed suicide. Both of these suicides happened within a week. Eight of his military friends had died this way. All eight…


Shen Yun’s Mysterious Rejuvenating Effects

The entire secret is to be found in music, from which we want to construct a completely different therapeutic system. —Nicolaus Lenau, an Austrian poet and advocate of music therapy in the 1800s Many years ago, Vincent Cavarra was fighting cancer when he bought himself a ticket to Shen Yun Performing Arts. Partway through the…


Music Therapy Can Help With Depression, Heart Defects and Brain Development, Says Science

Music plays an integral role in human cultural expression around the world. It has a unique power to move and motivate us, but according to researchers, “music therapy” might just be capable of even more than that. Music, when used as a therapeutic tool, can help with a variety of health and holistic complaints. Here…


5 Amazing Healing Honey Facts

Honey, unlike almost everything else we consume in our diet, was intended solely to be a form of nourishment—albeit, for the bees. Only milk, to my knowledge, shares this singular biological imperative. But honey is far more than a source of sweetness and quick energy within the human diet. Honey has profound medicinal applications, some of…


Raw Honey: A Natural Sweetener With Health Benefits

Consuming honey, nature’s sweet gift freely given through the work and movement of honeybees, gets sweeter in light of its wide-ranging health benefits. If you reach for honey for your cup of freshly brewed tea or to sweeten your homemade desserts, you may already know that science favors honey for its wholesome health benefits versus…


‘Prescription for Hope’: A Navy SEAL Widow Learns How to Grieve and Live Again

When our country’s service members are killed in action, they aren’t alone in making the ultimate sacrifice. Their families also bear the burden. Char Fontan Westfall continues to carry the loss of her late husband Navy SEAL Jacques Fontan, but she’s learned how to grieve and how to live again. Westfall met Fontan when he…