When pertaining to your health, the word ‘challenge’ is often used to describe a goal to push and strive for. Our society rewards overworking, overtraining, and ‘crushing’ our goals. While this can be motivating and even essential for hitting some targets, we can sometimes benefit from viewing ‘challenge’ differently….
Do you have a tendency to sabotage your health and fitness efforts with ‘rewards’ for good behaviour? Here’s how to find out: You make it to the gym, have a good run on the treadmill, and treat yourself to a double scoop ice cream cone afterward. You cut out…
By: Leigh Graham Last year I took the opportunity to go on a ten-day silent meditation retreat at the Ontario Vipassana Centre, in which approximately 100 other men and women and I sat silently (and still!) for 10 hours a day, eyes closed, meditating. We ate together and bunked together, and…
