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Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth This Declaration was adopted by the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, in Bolivia. The Bolivian government has submitted it to the United Nations for consideration. Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth Preamble We, the peoples and nations of Earth: -Medical and Non-medical Applications - Mindfulness Online Course Thanh V. Huynh MD, John A. Burns School of Medicine (Departments of Surgery and Complementary & Alternative Medicine), and Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i, University of Hawai‘i; Carolyn Gotay PhD, Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i, University of Hawai‘i; Subcomandante Marcos Comes to Wall Street I am sitting at a coffee place in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a misty town in Chiapas, in southern Mexico. I am told that occasionally Sub Comandante Marcos, the famed leader of indigenous people in the region, used to come here. I wonder if I will see him, although he has not made a public appearance in more than two years.
Meditation: There May Be No Better Time Than Now. « Spacesuit Yoga For those who have been following the Mumbai Siege and the news on the New York Wal-Mart mob murder, I suspect you are as stunned and horrified by the tragedy and madness of late. These are (sigh)… challenging times. Yet in today’s edition of The New York Times‘ Week in Review, we read the following: ‘No matter how stressful the conditions, some of us are just genetically inclined towards calm…. or else we learn to manage the neuroticism.’ I’m not sure claims of suffering from high level cortical stress count in a case of neuroticism.
Call to Action: Solidarity in Defense of Winnemem Wintu Coming of Age Ceremony From “An Indigenous Ally” The Winnemem Wintu are a salmon and middle water people living on what is left of their ancestral lands from Mt. Shasta down the McCloud River watershed in California. They have issued a request for solidarity in defense of a sacred Coming of Age Ceremony for young Winnemem Wintu women. One Half Of Adult Depression Cases Originate In Adolescence Researchers at Bangor and Oxford Universities have discovered that almost 50 percent of adults suffering from clinical depression have had their first encounter with this particular problem in adolescence, noting that lately depression is more commonly found between the ages of 13 and 15. Professor Mark Williams from the Oxford University says that depression cases are increasingly found in teenage patients, unlike several decades ago when depression was mostly observed in middle-aged patients. The appearance of depression in younger patients has turned depression into an important health problem in the past few years. Depression The current study was conducted on 275 patients who were experiencing recurring episodes of depression. Researchers tried to discover a correlation between the age of patients when they first became affected by depression and the appearance of mental health problems later in life.
How Exercise Fuels the Brain Shannon Stapleton/ReutersDoes exercise keep your brain running? Moving the body demands a lot from the brain. Exercise activates countless neurons, which generate, receive and interpret repeated, rapid-fire messages from the nervous system, coordinating muscle contractions, vision, balance, organ function and all of the complex interactions of bodily systems that allow you to take one step, then another. This increase in brain activity naturally increases the brain’s need for nutrients, but until recently, scientists hadn’t fully understood how neurons fuel themselves during exercise. Now a series of animal studies from Japan suggest that the exercising brain has unique methods of keeping itself fueled.
Aloha Dharma Going on retreat is a right of passage for meditators. A retreat gets you outside of your comfort zone, gets you to interact directly with others who are committed to the practice and helps you to focus on your practice intensely. It increases the time you meditate from a small daily child vitamin dose to an all-day immersion. Because of this the effects of the meditation can be amplified and people often have their first “mystical” experience in a retreat setting.