What do I mean by that? I mean that the first couple of weeks feel like a mix of sluggish and confusing, often associated with planetary retrogrades. A little like when you wake up from a nap before you’re ready and you can’t quite get into the present moment—it feels cloudy with a chance of misunderstanding. My recommendation in the first couple weeks of January is to allow yourself to slow down....
For example, a Type Two’s wings are One and Three. There is debate about whether every type is equally influenced by its two wings (known as two-wing theory) or if only one of your wings is the dominant wing that affects your personality (known as one-wing theory). In one-wing theory, a person’s full Enneagram type is expressed with both their main type and associated wing together. So a Type Two could be a 2w1 (a Type Two with a One wing) or a 2w3 (a Type Two with a Three wing)....
Eucalyptus oil’s history of medicinal use dates back to the days of Indigenous Australians, who used both the leaves and the roots of the plant as medicines. When English colonists began to arrive in Australia in the late 1700s, they quickly adopted eucalyptus oil as a medicinal treatment themselves. In fact, when Surgeon-General John White arrived in 1788, he took an interest in eucalyptus almost immediately, according to entries in his diary....
Before getting started, I recommend a quick decluttering and energy clearing to bust through any negativity in the air. Now, let’s go over the most effective feng shui tweaks for your bedroom. A general rule of thumb is to opt for skin tones or muted shades you’d find in nature. Here are a few: If you paint your whole bedroom in peach, chances are that you will attract someone, and then someone else, and someone else… Consider instead using peach as an accent tone on pillows, throws, and small objects....
We spoke to an inventor of the Flow Hive as well as a few backyard beekeepers to find out exactly how the product works, its pros and cons, and how to best use it to keep yourself (and your bees!) safe. To get honey out of a conventional beehive, you need to remove one of the hive’s frames at a time, brush off the bees, and carry the frame to a device called a centrifuge, which extracts honey from the honeycombs....
Ginseng—specifically, Panax ginseng, aka red, Asian, or Korean ginseng—“is an important and commonly used herb in traditional Chinese medicine,” says Grant Chu, M.D., M.S., an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and associate director of education at the Center for East-West Medicine. “Traditionally, [ginseng] is used to tonify chi, or vital energy,” Chu explains. That can apply to chi in general, or specific chi related to digestion, breathing, or your mind....
The pretty slabs of crystal are far more than just a trendy skin care ritual beloved by wellness influencers and beauty gurus: Facial gua sha is a specific type of massage adapted from ancient Chinese bodywork that utilizes a scraping tool to encourage circulation and lymph flow. Here’s the play-by-play of doing gua sha every morning for two weeks. (And if you want to learn more about gua sha, check out the explainer here....
