Monthly Archive: January, 2020

14th January 2020

Doctors Explain Causes of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition caused by pressure on the median nerve on the palm side of the hand at the junction of the wrist. The condition is caused by the narrowing of the bone tunnel that conducts the nerve, swelling, and other conditions that compress the nerve. Excessive use of the hands and specific health conditions are the...

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13th January 2020

How To Release Emotional Attachment to Expectation

We’ve all been in a situation where we’ve hoped for something, only to have it fall through. It can be challenging to recover from such a painful blow, but it’s even more difficult if you feel a desperate emotional attachment to what you hoped would be. Your expectation–and confidence–feel crushed. Sadly, it never pays to be too attached to something...

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12th January 2020

Psychology Explains How Humans Process Grief

Life is amazing, painful, beautiful, and cruel.  It is a tremendous, awe-inspiring blessing. Life is quite the dichotomy.  Once it passes by, you can never go back. Therefore, it both creates more life and takes it away.  It can allow us to create abundance in our lives and also allow us to travel to the depths of depravity in times...

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10th January 2020

Everything You Need to Know About Lyme Disease

What is Lyme disease? Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. B. burgdorferi is transmitted to humans by a bite from an infected black-legged or deer tick. The tick becomes infected after feeding on infected deer, birds, or mice. A tick has to be present on the skin for at least 36 hours to transmit the infection. Many...

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8th January 2020

How to Grow Salad Greens All Year

Salad greens growing under a shade net, where they are protected from intense summer heat. Though it’s hard to beat the nostalgic crunch of head lettuce, most of us have come to expect much more from our salads than crunch. Today, a top-notch salad contains many different colors, shapes, sizes, textures and flavors. And in addition to lettuces, it may also...

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7th January 2020

Kobudō: The path to fighting like a real Japanese warrior

In a society that values prescribed pathways to success, carving one’s way as an outsider is rarely the first choice in Japan, but for Alice Iwamoto, who is fashioning an independent acting career from scratch, it’s been the only choice. To achieve her goal, the 27-year-old former dancer has spent the two years since arriving from Australia feverishly acquiring the...

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7th January 2020

Top 10 Misconceptions About London

Who hasn’t dreamed of a citybreak in London at some point? It is, after all, one of the world’s most visited cities—attracting over 19 million international visitors in 2016. The home of some major global attractions, like Big Ben, the Natural History Museum and the London Eye, London is one of the world’s greatest cities. It’s just a shame that...

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2nd January 2020

The Beginner’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting

I have been intermittent fasting for over one year. I skip breakfast each day and eat two meals, the first around 1pm and the second around 8pm. Then, I fast for 16 hours until I start eating again the next day at 1pm. Surprisingly, since I’ve started intermittent fasting I’ve increased muscle mass (up 10 pounds from 205 to 215),...

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2nd January 2020

Danshari – The Ultimate Decluttering Discipline from Japan

Danshari (断捨離), or if you like the art of decluttering, is a Japanese concept that is gaining more and more popularity (although it is about less and less). The term is difficult to translate and it’s composed of three ideograms (断捨離), meaning “refuse”, “dispose” and “separate”. In a conventional sense, it is rendered as “cleaning” or “tidying up”. Danshari – Japanese...

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2nd January 2020

Japanese Minimalism: What Japan Can Teach You About Living Simply

In last years Europe has created a fascination for Scandinavian minimalism and simple, natural living. However, Scandinavians were not the only one who are in love simplicity – just look at Japan. Despite their vast distance, Japan and Sweden have similar design sensibilities. Like Scandinavia, Japan upholds design principles that use natural materials, clean lines, and straightforward construction or cut. ...

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