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What Is The Purpose Of Sweating?

What is the purpose of sweating, you suddenly asked yourself. You have been doing all sorts of physical activities all your life, where you found yourself sweating every time. Why does this happen, and what does it mean? The human body is surprisingly... Read >

How to Keep Your Lymphatic System Healthy

Keeping your lymphatic system in proper working order is vital to maintaining good health. It interacts with every organ in your body and serves to protect it against infection. The lymphatic system is composed of a network of lymph vessels through which ... Read >

How Does Relaxation Benefit the Mind And Body?

Relaxation is the process of releasing tension and returning the balance of both the mind and body. Relaxation techniques are important in managing stress. Since stress is known to contribute to the development of many diseases, one needs an antidote to b... Read >

Creating Wealth With A Feng Shui Wealth Corner

Feng Shui believes that the proper placement of items and specific areas in your home will harmonize energies and allow you to reach your dreams. Fame, success, wealth: these are the aspirations of so many people in the world. A lot work doubly hard to ac... Read >

Sheila's Story: How One Woman Broke Through The Shadows

There may have been nothing to come home to but, at the height of Hurricane Katrina, Sheila was one of the lucky ones. By some twist of fate, Sheila and her three children, ages 8, 4 and 2, were in Chicago for her sister's wedding. It was a trip she had s... Read >

The Karen Tribe Of Burma And Thailand And Their Beautiful Crafts

I'm fascinated with ancient ethnic peoples that can still be found around the world today. One of them, the Karen tribe of Burma and Thailand, produce such beautiful fabrics, jewelry and basketry that they are catching the attention of fair trade groups i... Read >

What Feng Shui Shapes And Objects Can Do For Your Home

As children, one of the first things we learned was to recognize shapes. It was fun to see squares in boxes, rectangles in buildings, triangles in street signs and so on. From childhood on, shapes would play a huge part in our daily lives. After all, ... Read >

Feng Shui Directions

What is Your Lucky Feng Shui Direction? Feng Shui can be a fun and interesting way to help improve the quality of your life. So far, we have discussed basic feng shui tools, shapes, colors and lucky objects. Another is by figuring out your lucky feng shui... Read >

Don't Let Allergies Stop You From Enjoying Candles!

Dear Brownstoneshopper, I absolutely love scented candles! But, since I've been using them, I've been getting mild asthma attacks, teary eyes and a runny nose. Is it possible that I'm allergic to candles? I'm torn now between enjoying my candles and m... Read >

Candle Safety For Candle Enjoyment

We receive a lot of questions about how to make sure candles are burned with enjoyment but with utmost concern for safety. The general answer to this is that it is not the candles per se that are unsafe but how we use them. What we don't want is an ac... Read >

Chakra and Simple Secrets For Your Path To Good Health

Deriving from ancient Hindu texts and a cornerstone of traditional Indian medicine, Chakra healing has become increasingly recognized in modern culture. Indeed, it encourages alternate or complementary approaches to conventional Western medicine which pro... Read >

An Occassion For Candles, Candles For All Occasions

The John Hughes film Sixteen Candles was THE film of my early teens. I couldn't help but cheer on Molly Ringwald's character, Samantha, as she went through a non-birthday birthday until, finally, she was able to blow out her sixteen candles in the most un... Read >

Harnessing Good Feng Shui For Your Home

Have you noticed the recent popularity of the ancient art of Feng Shui? The proliferation of websites and products that promote the benefits of feng shui is one indication; so is your own growing concern about how to decorate your home or office following... Read >

Color Has Power - Our Responses to Color - Part 2

In our last article, we talked about the psychological responses we humans have to color and the factors that influence them. There's one thing though that we mentioned that merits some discussion: color is basically, light. To understand the relationship... Read >

The Chemistry Behind Candles

Wax and candlemaking have a long history together and although there are different kinds of candlemaking waxes, candlemaking wax whatever its type, is here to stay. For hundreds of years, candles have been a fascinating object of scientific inquiry. How c... Read >