Posts in the "Health" Category

  • At a time when the economy is struggling and the impact ripples throughout each local community, a small area of Brooklyn showed its tough cohesion one week in September. Ditmas Park is a small residential community just south of Prospect Park, famous for its  landmark Victorian Homes, interspersed with coop and rental apartments, sheltering a [...]

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  • I first heard about the healing power of laughter in the 70s when I read about how Norman Cousins cured himself of a fatal disease with the help of the Marx Brothers, but I already believed in it.  In college, my best friends and I formed a “super society” bonded in a belief that laughter [...]

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  • In our ever-expanding online age, it is so easy to get stressed and make mistakes that can at the least cause us embarrassment and at the worst, cause serious problems. My friend Pragito Dove is a meditation master, author and trainer who specializes in working with both entrepreneurs and large corporations to reduce stress in [...]

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  • I was back in Michigan earlier this month, watching the classic film A Christmas Carol with relatives in the Detroit suburbs.  In the state with the worst unemployment in the country, this movie held a special relevance this year as bankers became the symbol of greed.  And yet it was also a reminder of how [...]

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  • Every time I renew my driver’s license and click on organ donation, I feel good that I might be able to help someone survive when I pass on.  But I recently learned that there’s much more you can do.  And it’s urgent! My former business partners and good friends David Hamlin and Sydney Weisman in [...]

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