What Are Xenohormones and How Do They Affect Your Health?

What are Xenohormones? And How Do They Affect Your Health?

- by Dodee Schmitt

In the modern world, your body can be exposed to xenoestrogens, or what are also known as xenohormones. These are synthetic hormones that caricature estrogen in the body.

If you do your research, you will find they are in common household products, make-up, most plastics, tampons, non-organic pads for menstruation, hair spray, perfumes, soda cans, the lining in tin cans…

… and there are tons more.

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Jesus is a Brand of Jeans: Jean Kilbourne on How Advertising Affects the Way Women Feel

Jesus is a Brand of Jeans: Jean Kilbourne on How Advertising Affects the Way Women Feel

- by Jean Kilbourne

A recent ad for Thule car-rack systems features a child in the backseat of a car, seatbelt on. Next to the child, assorted sporting gear is carefully strapped into a child’s carseat. The headline says: ‘We Know What Matters to You.’ In case one misses the point, further copy adds: ‘Your gear is a priority.’ Another ad features an attractive young couple in bed. The man is on top of the woman, presumably making love to her. However, her face is completely covered by a magazine, open to a double-page photo of a car. The man is gazing passionately at the car. The copy reads, ‘The ultimate attraction.’

These ads are meant to be funny. Taken individually, I suppose they might seem amusing or, at worst, tasteless. As someone who has studied ads for a long time, however, I see them as part of a pattern: just two of many ads that state or imply that products are more important than people. Ads have long promised us a better relationship via a product: buy this and you will be loved. But more recently they have gone beyond that proposition to promise us a relationship with the product itself: buy this and it will love you. The product is not so much the means to an end, as the end itself.

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Everything You Have Ever Heard About Tantra is a Lie!

Everything You Have Ever Heard About Tantra is a Lie!

- by Charu

In the West, Tantra has sadly come to be known purely as a sexual practice. It conjures up images of orgies and casual encounters in the name of something sacred.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. Tantra is a path of meditation above all things. An offering of tools to support you in becoming more aware, conscious and alive. To bring you home to the present moment. What sets Tantra apart from other meditation paths is that it acknowledges the importance of being alive in a body, being a sexual being. Many modern ‘seekers’ find ourselves ‘top-heavy’, focused on opening our heart, third eye and crown chakras in an effort to experience perpetual bliss. Read more »

Health and Loving Relationships – TEDx Women Talk with Lissa Rankin

Health and Loving Relationships – TEDx Women Talk with Lissa Rankin

- by Tera Warner

I’ll make this short and sweet.

My beautiful and brilliant friend – Lissa Rankin, MD – did a TEDx Women Talk, and I wanted to share it with the world.

Please check out her TEDx talk above – it’s just fabulous!

Hugs and health,

Tera

Body Enlightenment Registrations Extended Until 11/11/11 at 11:11

Body Enlightenment Registrations Extended
until 11/11/11 at 11:11

- by Tera Warner

Sometimes I think of courage as the tough, roll up your sleeves kinda strength it takes to fight “bad guys” and walk home alone at night in the dark. But this week, thanks to you, I’ve seen that courage can be a quiet, committed act of kindness to oneself.

Here’s what I mean…

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