Q: I want to get my boys off the fast foods, but I'm not ready to start learning how to cook. What ingredients should I definitely stay away from And are there any ingredients that sound bad but are OK? Keep Reading…
Q: What does one do to start meditating? Do you have to take a class? Keep Reading…
Q: How do I get a kid to change from being used to eating junk food to healthy food? Sugar and fat just make foods so much yummier and I imagine there's some major withdrawal from being used to sweet and fat foods.
A: Sugar and fat make foods yummy not because God hates us and wants us to look bad in bathing suits and spandex, but because these substances are chock full of easily digested calories. For most of history, living beings faced two big problems: getting a date on Saturday night, and getting enough food to stay alive during the famine. In those days, it made sense to load up on the calories you found in a big slab of animal fat or hanging from an extremely ripe fruit tree, because who knew if that was the last food you'd see in a week.
Q: Is it really possible to get fit in 10 minutes a day?
A: Fitness does not have to take 30-45 minutes at a time, despite what the fitness industry may be promoting. Keep Reading…
Q: How can I retrain my body's natural clock to wake up earlier? I feel like I have become actually softer as I age and, though I know it would fix so many things wrong in my life, I still sleep in as late as possible before racing to the shower then out the front door off to work…
A: Our need for sleep is based on a number of factors, Keep Reading…
Q: What do you think of the Weston A Price Foundation?
A: They are half right, and because of this, they are doubly dangerous about the half they get wrong.
Q: What do you think of the energy drink "Cocaine"? Their website says that it's a healthier, stronger version of Red Bull that doesn't let you down with a "crash."
I was interviewed by Sunny Hills, a well-known teacher of positive affirmations and positive thinking. The topic was, "How can meditation help me with my affirmations."
Because most of the participants in the call were beginners, this interview is a useful introduction to meditation – principles and techniques.
Here is the complete program, with the introductions and some of the chit-chat edited out for your listening pleasure: