We’ve been raised from birth to believe in the power of labor to transform ourselves and better our worlds. We’re taught to strive and push and extend ourselves from cradle to grave in everything from athletics to business ...

As we grind our way through another American football season, millions of sports fans will dig in and prepare to go the distance. They’ll get themselves a new flat panel display, make sure the batteries in the remote are all charged up, download a schedule of all the big games and lay in a copious supply of edible, food-like substances ...

It seems that maybe we’ve lost track, or maybe we've forgotten. We’re up to our neck in journal articles, presentations and analysis. We’ve discussed our concerns about health and the body until we’re blue in the face ...

As we all know, outdoor exercise is the way to go. Not only does it feel really good, a growing body of research now demonstrates a powerful link between outdoor experience and improved human health. The "green exercise" movement is really taking off ...

The world cannot be governed without juggling.  ~John Selden

This one will pump you! Get two medicine balls, light to medium weight ...

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement... to get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed ...

In the world of modern Paleo publications, the market is dominated by two basic categories. On one hand are the academic research papers–important, but narrow and often excruciatingly dull. On the other,  we have the diet books–important, but increasingly redundant ...

For the purist, the ideal meditation experience is simple: shine the light of your attention on your breath and keep it there. When your attention wanders, bring it back onto the breath-target with compassion and without judgment ...

Back in my college days I was, like many of my peers, a confused and restless animal. Books and civilized rituals weren’t feeding my body or my spirit, so I began to seek out nature. At the time, the enterprise sounded like a great idea, but unfortunately, I didn’t really have the slightest idea of what I was getting into ...

It’s a trick question of course. After all, most of us think we know how big we are. We may well think of ourselves as too big or too small in some dimension or other, but we still have a pretty good sense of the size of our physical selves ...

For those of us with an interest in human performance, behavior and the nervous system, there’s a powerful turn of phrase that’s been showing up with increasing frequency in both professional and popular press ...

You’re trying your best to build a life and a career with meaning, substance and dignity. You want to create a healthier life for yourself and others around you but somehow, it feels like an uphill fight ...

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness ...

As a kid, it was one of my favorite daydreams. I’d devour books about the big mountain and savor the descriptions of the Khumbu glacier, the treacherous icefall, the Western Cwm, the “death zone” and the Hillary Step ...

The time has come to have a little talk about our talk, especially as it relates to those perplexing words, health and wellness. Clearly, we are having some serious problems on this score. Across the board, from training environments to clinical, academic and organizational settings, people have been struggling to come up with a working definition ...

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body ...

Everyone knows that something is desperately wrong with the human body and the human experience. Over the course of the last several decades, we have suffered a rapid and ominous increase in so-called non-communicable diseases, also referred to as “lifestyle diseases.” ...

There’s a common pattern that emerges in the life of health enthusiasts and environmental activists: We fall in love with the body and the earth and before long we begin to see pain and disease all around us ...