The Gentle Press
Stress-reducing health and wellness advice gently provided by Dr. Barone and the staff at Una Vita.
8 Back-To-School Backpack Tips for Kids
It feels like summer is just heating up. School is the farthest thing from my mind, but my wife, being the organized one, has brought home two new backpacks, all ready for the upcoming school year. That's when I came to the realization that the kids start school in...
Newport Village Chiropractic is now Una Vita Chiropractic
A lot changes in 18 years. In October of 2000. There was a red Jeep TJ Sport in my garage. My parents were only in their seventies. I was mentally worn from completing ten years of university, held up from collapsing physically (and financially) by only the calm...
What’s the Best Sleep Position for Good Posture?
Sleep position can dramatically change your posture and your health. "What position should I sleep in?" It is one of the most common questions I receive in the office. It is a natural question, after all. Many back problems cause people to stay up late, wake up too...
Infinity to the Power of a Triangle
How abstract words and affirmations can change our minds, big-time. It is 4:30 on a clear morning in Whistler today. It's still dark. I am looking out my window and through the spiralled branches of evergreens to the village trail, which is lit by lamp-posts with...
Be One With The Guitar
Your Body is Part of The InstrumentA couple of months ago I was in my basement and found a stack of sheet music from when I was a teenager. It was around 1986 then, when I was first studying classical guitar. I blew the dust off a piece called the Bach...
Love: Simple.
Sometimes we make things too complicated. Consider it a bug in the programming of our DNA. We complicate our health care, our relationships, parenting, our diet, even love. Deep down we know the rules, and what is right, yet somehow, that simplicity all too often gets...
The Psychology of Fasting
Maybe you are interested in fasting to improve your physical or spiritual health. Maybe you are just curious. It is present in cultures and religions around the world, but is gaining appreciation in the west. Jesus went fasting for forty days and forty nights, but...
The New Zen Masters : Kids and Mindfulness
My journey with mindfulness, at least in a deliberate form, began when I was about 19 years old. I wrote a report in psychology 101 about meditation, mostly centred around a book called The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson. Herbert Benson was a medical doctor...
5 Rules to Staying Injury Free While Running
The last thing any runner wants is to be sidelined from an injury. Luckily there are ways to stay injury free and decrease your chances of needing to take an unexpected time out from training. Make sure you have the right shoes for your feet It is worth getting your...