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Simple Tips for Natural Living

Holistic lifestyle advice for families looking to eat wholesome foods, and live more sustainably.

Post 6: The Equinox That Isn’t

Today is the vernal equinox for the Northern Hemisphere, when the Sun crosses the equator and heads into the Northern Hemisphere. It heralds the beginning of spring for the North and the beginning of fall for the South. According to astronomical predictions, the day should be exactly 12 hours long on the equinox regardless of
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Post 5: Gifted Trauma

Many people believe that if you are intellectually gifted, everything comes easily to you. If you have any problems whatsoever, you can overcome them easily. This is in fact incorrect. Gifted adults have to deal with their own, special kinds of issues, many of which are not easily understood by the majority of the population.
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Post 4: Are You in a Bubble?

If you are like many people, you may think that you are very well informed about the world and can see things objectively. You are well adjusted to your environment and seem to be comfortable with everything around you. However, that may not in fact be the case. There may be an entire world out
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Post 3: Are Science and Spirituality the Same?

At first glance, science and spirituality seem to cover completely different domains. Science tries to find underlying principles to determine how certain aspects of the universe work. For instance, physics is used to figure out how matter and energy behaves under various conditions, claiming that everything we know can be reduced to four fundamental forces
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