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FROM THE EDITOR
VOL. 23 / ISS 4/ Holiday Issue 2011-12
I was reading a confession by a person who admitted that, having hit her fifties, her body was just not responding to exercise as it once had. Pain had taken over where there was once refreshing exuberance. While the advice offered to combat this physical, and perhaps mental, doldrum was good, I had to ask myself if a maxim wasn’t also appropriate here: To everything there is a season.
I myself have reached the age where the body slows down, and mental and spiritual changes take place. And, dammit, everything seems to happen of its own accord without our willing or wishing it to come true! We naturally want to hold onto youth and its varied perks, but if “to everything there is a season” is true, perhaps we should look at things a bit differently, in a seasonal kind of way.
I think it’s incumbent on each of us to keep ourselves as healthy and as vital as possible. This does not mean keeping ourselves young. Only the young are young. But with health and vitality, which we can garner from exercise, rest, supplements where necessary, an active mind with active interests, we can become positive beings in our maturity. Even if medications are needed to maintain equilibrium, the benefits of exercise and an active mind still remain. Amusingly, the young may not be as fit—physically and spiritually—as some older folks who take care of themselves.
In our climate zone, we can also take inspiration and guidance from nature. Here in the Northeast the seasons arrive, and each one has its blessings and its occasional curses (like a hurricane and resultant flooding). We know our natural inclinations during the colder months. It’s a time for cozy things: candles, fireplaces, scarves, bundling up in bed, snuggling. It’s time for Charles Dickens, relaxing with classical or new age music, gatherings with friends and family (and their good cheer and gift-giving), warming food and equally warming drinks. It’s not a time for going out in your shorts and T-shirt and running off the Jersey shore to play beach volleyball or lie on the sand with sunscreen glistening over your body!
So the lesson of “to everything there is a season” is to enjoy what you have: the age you are and the season you are in. If you are finding that your usual exercise routine is causing you more searing pain than sweaty pleasure, then perhaps you should slow down and/or channel the need for exercise to tai chi or yoga, if you are not already engaging in those modalities. If you are grumpy about the summer’s passing, then go out on a day trip to enjoy the fall foliage and, later, the first snowfall. Read A Christmas Carol again, and open your arms and heart to others in the season of gift-giving and “God bless us, every one!” Even if you have no material gifts to give, there is always love and, in charity, the giving of your time for volunteer work.
“To everything there is a season.” Make that season, whatever it is, your own.
Miro Lipinski
Editor, New Visions Magazine/Director
INTEGRATIVE HEALTH
Dan Monti, M.D. - Medical Director
Jefferson - Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine
We are honored to have contributions from the
Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas
Jefferson University Hospital, under the directorship of Dan Monti,
M.D. The Center houses one of the foremost integrative clinical
practices in the world, and its doctors will be submitting articles
on integrative health issues that are sure to be of tremendous value
and interest. For more information call 215-955-222
CHRISTINA'S KITCHEN
Christina Pirello
In 1983, Christina Pirello was diagnosed
with leukemia. Using the whole food approach, she cured herself
and now teaches whole foods cooking classes, lectures, and broadcasts
her message via her public television show, “Christina Cooks.”
(Seen on over 135 public television stations nationally). Christina
has been featured in the weekly food column in The Philadelphia
Inquirer Magazine and Newsweek. She is a member of the advisory
and editorial board for Taste for Life magazine, and a faculty member
of the Restaurant School of Philadelphia, where she is the director
of the Whole Foods Academy. For more
information on Ms. Pirello’s classes, appearances or seminars,
call 215-551-1430, 800-939-3909 or visit her website for all kinds of info about her TV show and recipes.
NUTRITIOUS & DELICIOUS
RESTAURANTS
Peter Eobbi
Born and raised in Philadelphia,
Peter Eobbi has catered private and corporate events and is connected
to the conscieger network in the Philadelphia area and has eaten
his way around the world. E-mail him at info@newvisionsmagazine.com
if you have any questions or comments.
ASTROLOGY
Julian Bentley
Born in England, Julian Bentley arrived in the United States over fifteen years ago. His astrology column is one of the most popular and anticipated features in New Visions Magazine.
Staff writers: Miro Lipinski, Susan T. Hui
New Visions Magazine has also interviewed and presented articles by some of the top names in the natural health and human potential field, including Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Doreen Virtue, James Van Praagh, and many others.
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