** Prevent frizz on natural hair this season for your best curly hair days yet! 1. Avoid frizz in dry climates. These are the days when the air is dry, with little to no moisture whatsoever. To be honest, this may be the type of climate we’ll choose to have just for a good hair day. However, you can have a dry frizz episode on days like this. According to Unilever’s Senior Manager of Hair, Leon Van Gorkom, “static is a form of dry frizz....
Everyone probably doesn’t feel the same way as I do, but perhaps they should. While being in nature leads to better health, creativity, and even kindness, there may be something special about being among trees. After all, trees are important to our lives in many ways. The most obvious is their role in producing the oxygen we breathe and sequestering carbon dioxide to help protect our atmosphere; but science suggests trees provide other important benefits, too....
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. To learn more about ’em, click here. Life has been super busy for us lately! I decided we needed a night in that was fun but relaxing. Welcome to the date night known as, “MEXICAN FIESTA EXTRAVAGANZA”! The Invite I found a few cheap decorations at the Dollar Tree to add to the evening’s ambiance. Print your invite! The Dinner One of our favorite restaurants on the planet is Cafe Rio!...
It’s no small thing to take on the responsibility of teaching others how to work with their minds, no less teaching teachers to do that. (It’s not like teaching, say, tennis; it’s the mind, after all. Nothing is subtler or more elusive). A meditator since she was a teenager, a meditation teacher for decades, and a teacher of teachers for quite a while, Diana Winston—director of mindfulness education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center—writes from direct experience....
On a recent meditation retreat, I asked assembled students to share their favorite “evasive maneuvers” from the present moment, the ways we all hide out from having to be here with the direct simplicity of right now. People said all kinds of funny and not so funny things. In a discussion group later in the weekend, one student wondered why nobody had brought up Twitter and Facebook. Another student joked “Ethan asked us what our individual evasive maneuvers were, not our shared ones....
