This is an 8 week on-line course available from DailyOM and Catherine Ann Jones. We will email you when your new lesson is available and you will be able to login and read each lesson on-line or print as they become available and click to listen to the guided audio meditations. Your first lesson will be available immediately after you enroll. If you have any other questions, please contact us.

Our lives may be determined less by past events than by the way we remember them. You are invited to come aboard this inner adventure that offers a step by step journey of discovery and re-visioning through focused journaling. Throughout the eight sessions, you will be engaged in exercises designed to facilitate healing and transformation. Telling stories about our past through focused journaling can help change our perspectives to enable healing and empowerment. In this way, we are able to make meaning out of memory and put the past where it belongs – behind us. Healing and transformation are only possible through changing one’s perspective from within. In this way, global healing takes place one individual, one tribe, at a time. What story are you living? How do you choose to remember your story?

There is a Native American parable about a grandfather who says, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.” When asked which wolf will win the fight in his heart, the old man replies, “The one I feed.”

ABOUT CATHERINE ANN JONE
Catherine Ann Jones holds a graduate degree in Depth Psychology and Myth from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she has also taught. Earlier she has played major roles in over fifty productions on and off-Broadway, as well as film and television. Disappointed by the lack of good roles for women, she wrote a play about Virginia Woolf (On the Edge) which won a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Ten of her plays, including Calamity Jane (both play and musical) and The Women of Cedar Creek, have won several awards and are produced both in and out of New York. Her films include The Christmas Wife (Jason Robards & Julie Harris), Unlikely Angel (Dolly Parton), Angel Passing (Hume Cronyn & Teresa Wright) which played at Sundance and went on to garner fifteen awards here and abroad, and the popular TV series, Touched by an Angel. A Fulbright Scholar to India studying shamanism, she has also taught at The New School University, University of Southern California, and the Esalen and the Omega Institute. Ms. Jones lives in Ojai, California, leads The Way of Story and Healing Yourself with Writing workshops throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her recent book, The Way of Story: the craft & soul of writing, is used by many schools, including NYU writing programs.www.wayofstory.com

(NaturalNews) The New Year is upon us, and for many people, it includes a New Year’s resolution for achieving improved health and happiness in 2010. Here are twenty-five health-enhancing ideas to help you accomplish that goal.

#1 – Replace sodas or soft drinks with tea or water.

#2 – Commit to eating one raw fruit (or serving of vegetables) at every meal.

#3 – Add just 5 minutes a day to your exercise routine. Don’t have an exercise routine? Start with 5 minutes a day!

#4 – Get more sunshine!

#5 – Learn some Pilates. It’s probably the #1 exercise system for core strength and flexibility.

#6 – Drink a superfood smoothie every day.

#7 – Buy more indoor plants: They purify the air in your home.

#8 – Take a quality, wild-harvested fish oil supplement that contains vitamin D.

#9 – Eat more quinoa: It’s a high-protein, low-carb “grain” that can easily replace rice or couscous.

#10 – When you get out of bed each morning, do five sit-ups first. It sounds simple, but just 5 sit-ups a day can make a difference.

#11 – Instead of trying to find a parking spot so close to the grocery store, park farther away. You’ll get a little more walking exercise and a little more sunshine.

#12 – Get a good water filter so you can stop drinking tap water (or bottled water).

#13 – Pick up a “gentle” art like Tai-Qi or Yoga. It will reduce your stress and improve your physical stamina.

#14 – Take a relaxing hot bath with epsom salts and soothing herbs like lavender. It will do wonders for your mind and your muscles.

#15 – Get a professional massage! Massage therapy is really, really healthy, and it’s a great way to reward yourself for some of the other accomplishments you’re making.

#16 – Grow your own sprouts! With a simple, low-cost sprouting machine, you can grow and eat your own sprouts. Eating just one ounce of sprouts a day still had a huge impact on preventing cancer and boosting immune function.

#17 – Prepare for a Spring garden. Sure, it’s cold and snowy right now, but make a commitment to start a garden this Spring, and you’ll reap many health benefits in the months ahead.

#18 – Get a mini-trampoline and do some rebounding in your living room. You can even watch movies or documentary DVDs at the same time.

#19 – Make a point to get at least eight hours of sleep for 2-3 nights a week (or more, if you can). Most people are sleep deprived, and the health cost is enormous.

#20 – Start visiting local farmer’s markets so that you eat more local food in 2010. You’ll be healthier and happier as a result.

#21 – Got a job you don’t like? Quit it! Downgrade your lifestyle to live on less money, then pursue what you really enjoy. Being happy in a small house is better than being miserable in a big one.

#22 – Get off those medications! Make a point to learn how to safely and gradually get yourself off all the medications you can by eliminating underlying imbalances or illnesses. The fewer medications you take, the healthier you’ll be!

#23 – Throw out your television! Are you still watching cable TV or satellite TV? It’s a complete waste of your life (but you already knew that). Disconnect the cable. Read more books and get your information online where news sources are more independent and intelligent.

#24 – Make a decision to think of food as nourishment instead of entertainment. Eat what your body needs, not what your taste buds desire.

#25 – Teach others how to be healthy! The more you talk with others about healthy habits, the more you’ll follow them yourself.

That’s it! I hope you enjoyed these 25 ideas for improving your health in 2010 (and beyond).

Of course, one of the best ways to keep improving your health in 2010 is to keep reading NaturalNews! We’ll be bringing you more natural cures, herbal remedies and self-care tips throughout 2010.

I’m personally looking forward to sharing a great year with you!

Think mold is only a summer phenomenon? Think again. As Edward R. Close, PhD, PE, Fellow, ISPE tells us in his article on Winter Mold, there is a chance your flu like symptoms could be caused by mold.

The relationship between mold and health is poorly understood by most people, even doctors and other health-care professionals. While numerous studies show links between mold exposure and almost every illness known to man, why this should be so is not only poorly understood, but completely overlooked or disregarded by many. My research (see “Nature’s Mold Rx, the Non -Toxic Solution to Toxic Mold”) suggests that mold, viruses and bacteria work together to weaken our defenses and bring on colds, flu and other debilitating conditions. There are many myths about mold that are widely believed, like “mold is not a problem in dry climates; there’s no mold problem if I don’t see or smell mold; bleach will take care of it: mold can’t start or grow in cold weather”, etc. I’ve debunked the myths of dry climate, smell and bleach in other articles, but in this discussion, I’m going to focus on the myth that there are no problems with mold in cold weather:

In the wintertime many, if not most “seasonal” colds and flu are caused, and/or promoted and greatly facilitated by mold exposure.  Here’s what happens: When you turn off your AC in the fall, there’s often a lot of moisture left in the drain pan under the cooling coils (e.g., the A-coil in your central HVAC system). If there is any dirt, debris, etc. blocking drainage, dents in the drain pan, or anything that allows water to stay in the system, when the heat comes on, you have perfect conditions for mold to blossom in your air ducts. I’ve seen mold exposure symptoms mistaken for colds and flu when the heat comes on in the winter, with no odor or other outward signs to indicate the true cause of the health problems, i.e., mold.

The solution is simple: Diffuse Thieves^® essential oil blend into the system intakes, or in the central system itself, until the oils have penetrated the entire system. You’ll know this is accomplished when the aroma in the outlet air is as strong as in the vicinity of the intake. This usually takes eight to twelve hours in the average home. To be sure that you are preventing the wintertime mold bloom in your heating and air conditioning system, after continuous diffusing for eight to twelve hours, put the diffuser on a timer and run it for fifteen minutes every four hours. If you are using an efficient cold-air diffuser, a fifteen ml bottle of oil should last for about a month. Our experience shows that this practice can save you a lot of misery and money in doctor visits and over-the-counter cold medicine in the course of a winter.

We have reviewed EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), a simple tapping on several points that has helped people with many emotional and physical challenges.

The Tapping Solution takes 10 people with ten different problems and applies EFT with amazing results. This is one free method you can add to your healing tool kit. The free e-book at the site explains the points and the affirmation. If you don’t know about this powerful technique, please do yourself a favor and check it out. It just might make a real difference in your ife.

And here is the link to the video and more.