She notes that this stone is best known for the luminescent, golden bands along its surface that have inspired beliefs and myths for thousands of years (hence the name “tiger’s-eye”). It’s even been used for courage by warriors and soldiers since ancient times, with Roman soldiers accessorizing with tiger’s-eye rings for strength and protection before battle, she adds. “They believed tiger’s-eye was the best stone for battle because of its eye-like appearance; the eye was believed to be all-seeing, which was critical for the battlefront,” Askinosie explains....

One of the reasons verbal abuse can be hard to identify is that it can look like a lot of different things. Behaviors like threatening or screaming at someone might seem like more obvious examples, but psychotherapist Annette Nuñez, Ph.D., LMFT, says it can also be discrete manipulation, gaslighting, or simply making someone feel less than. “Verbal abuse is all about power,” she explains. “So if it’s insulting somebody, if it’s making somebody feel less than, those are all examples of a mode of verbal abuse....

Vipassana is a 10-day silent meditation retreat—and there is nothing like 10 days of silence to show you the nature of your own mind. Vipassana means “to see things as they really are,” and that is exactly what I experienced in the course. Vipassana meditation reveals the ways in which we create our suffering, and once this is understood, we can begin to free ourselves from that suffering. Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea are served daily....

Vipassana is a 10-day silent meditation retreat—and there is nothing like 10 days of silence to show you the nature of your own mind. Vipassana means “to see things as they really are,” and that is exactly what I experienced in the course. Vipassana meditation reveals the ways in which we create our suffering, and once this is understood, we can begin to free ourselves from that suffering. Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea are served daily....

However, conscious sleep is possible in non-REM sleep as well. In fact, in Eastern meditation traditions, conscious sleep is taught as a way to maintain self-awareness, but without being aware of the body or environment, during deep non-dream sleep, Teitelbaum explains over email. According to a review1 published in the journal Progress in Brain Research, the concept of conscious sleep was highlighted by Elmer and Alyce Green of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas....

That’s right, your hair can become damaged from UV rays as well. However, it’s extremely different from sun damage you might see on the skin and requires different care. For example: You might see the phrase “hair sunscreen” slapped onto labels, but these protective formulas aren’t really SPF products at all (or, well, they don’t have to be). Allow us to explain. But hair sunscreens are very different from their skin-focused counterparts....

Methylation takes place approximately one billion times per second and affects nearly every essential process in the body, according to functional medicine physician Robert Rountree, M.D. But when this vital process is not optimized—which can happen as a result of a variety of dietary, lifestyle, and genetic factors—your physical and mental well-being, from a cellular to whole-body level, will be suboptimal or worse. For example, methylation is essential for the production of certain bioactive vitamins (e....