4-7-8 breathing is a simple yogic technique that can lower stress, anxiety, heart rate and blood pressure, and assist with digestion and sleep. It’s free, takes almost no time, and requires no equipment. How’s that for good value?

Interested in trying meditation? Tried meditation, but not yet made it a regular part of your life? Here are a couple of thoughts that may help.

Sometime during the decade I managed Food As Medicine, a nutrition training program for physicians and other health professionals, I came up with this saying, and I’m sticking with it: If you eat a healthy meal, you’re healthier.

That’s the question our yoga teacher, Pleasance, asked us in class recently. She said, helpfully, it can be something you did 10 years ago, if there’s been nothing lately…?

Have you heard of the Complaint Free challenge? A minister named Will Bowen started this in 2006. He was teaching a class in prosperity and offered his students purple bracelets (you can use a rubberband) and a challenge: go 21 days without complaining.

This is one of the most important of all the Buddhist teachings. There are many teachings, and many that are simple, deep, and profoundly helpful in our lives. This one’s right up there at the top.