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Spending Time in Nature Boosts Kids’ Immunity

With the coronavirus pandemic following its course, parents are worried about their kids’ immunity and ways to boost it. This is natural given the fact that vaccination across the world is being done with a focus on the elderly and adult populations. While online classes and eating foods that boost immunity can be helpful for ...

Raven Montmorency

Two happy children playing in autumn leaves.

Have You Ever Experienced Lucid Dreaming?

A lucid dream is described as a type of dream where the individual dreaming is, in fact, aware that they’re asleep in their physical form yet still awake mentally. It has been said that individuals can even control the narrative of their dreams while in this state of dreaming.  I find the concept of lucid ...

Katrina Hicks

A door opens into an outdoor landscape with the moon shining over water.

Shen Yun Can Improve the Mind, Body, and Spirit

From Shen Yun: “The beauty of heavenly beings dancing.” Sounds magical, right?  Dr. Hu is a famous doctor in Taipei’s “Shanghai Tong De Tang” clinical office. He studied both Chinese and Western medicine. He cured the fifth melanoma patient in the world with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatments and is well-known in the medical world.  According ...

Helen London

Shen Yun orchestra.

The Buteyko Breathing Technique Helps Children With Asthma

Asthma is an ailment with no specific cure, and the victims have to use medications and adhere to precautions to stay safe. However, the Buteyko Breathing Technique (BBT) can be suitable for people coping with asthma and similar respiratory problems. The BBT was developed by Konstantin Buteyko, a Ukrainian doctor, in the 1950s. Why is ...

Raven Montmorency

Asthma montage.

Do Plagues and Their Impacts Show Intelligence? (Part 2)

In the few great plagues in human history, many people prayed for the protection of whatever God they believed in, but while some of the prayers were effective, some had little effect.   So where is the difference? The key lies in the word “piety.” It’s not about superficial piety, how much money you donate to the church, or ...

Helen London

Zhang Daoling riding a large feline.

Do Plagues and Their Impacts Show Intelligence?  (Part 1)

Since the existence of humanity, the development of human civilization has always been accompanied by plagues. Statistically, more people were killed through plagues than by war and famine.    Despite experiencing many plagues, large and small, humans have still not been able to identify some of their strange characteristics. They come and go without a trace ...

Helen London

Angel of Death during plague in Rome.

3 Influences of Well-Groomed Mothers on Children

What impacts do well-groomed mothers have on their children? Ms. Zhou and Ms. Zheng live in the same community and coincidentally both have a son and a daughter.  This year, Ms. Zhou’s eldest son is in the second grade and her youngest daughter has just started kindergarten. Every morning is the busiest time, getting up ...

Helen London

Young mother standing by a crib reading to her daughter from a picturebook.

How J.R.R. Tolkien Shows Us Ourselves

Some authors and literary geniuses are marvelous philosophers, too, and their insight into human life and mind is nothing short of astounding. One of them is legendary author J.R.R. Tolkien. His fantasy series The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings have been made into movies, and these films have millions of fans globally. However, ...

Jack Roberts

Characters in 'Lord of the Rings.'

A Kind-Hearted Deed Brings Unforeseen Blessings

An inexplicable kind-hearted deed occurred on December 31, 2014, when approximately 1 million people gathered for the New Year’s light show on the Bund in Shanghai. Tragically, that night, a stampede occurred that resulted in 49 people being injured and 36 being killed. Most of these were young students. A’s daughter was studying at the ...

Emma Lu

Close up of child's cupped hands holding a red heart.

How to Cope With Mental Stress Posed by the Pandemic

The pandemic induced by the coronavirus has altered life for billions of people, with factors such as ethnicity, religion, and income level or location notwithstanding. The worrisome thing is the virus just does not go away and widespread vaccination has not been able to eradicate it, causing high levels of mental stress. While the medical ...

Raven Montmorency

A visualizatin of the coronavirus at the molecular level.