Ready for a new and daring adventure in 2025? One that you’ll feel so good about you’ll want to continue it into 2026? A hot rock massage could fit that bill. When winter winds chill us to the bone, hot rocks can soothe our frozen joints by sublimely relaxing away those cold weather blues. This type of massage involves stroking hot rocks on the body.
Too much YouTube watching lately? Sometimes it’s important to tune out before tuning in to give your senses a break. This following meditation exercise can be particularly helpful for exactly those times – the times when you’re experiencing sensory overload. It’s easy to do too.
With Thanksgiving drawing near many of us have food on our minds as we make plans for our upcoming holiday feast. Of course, many of us have food on our minds no matter the holiday, but Thanksgiving gives us a little something extra to drool over in anticipation.
It’s an especially fun game to play with family and friends. Perhaps as an after dinner treat. It’s actually a meditative exercise because it calms the mind by getting one more acutely tuned into one’s senses, and that sure makes a lot of sense to me!
Even though school may be starting summer hasn’t ended yet. In fact, it’s hanging around until September 20th. So let’s get outside and enjoy the summer sun while we can.
Buckle up. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. A swirl of political activity will be bombarding us over these next few months. It could become (if it’s not already for you) confusing, emotionally charged, combative.
Dr. Joan A. Budilovsky
Author/Musician/Teacher
Dr Budilovsky has served on various college faculties throughout the years, beginning with the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. In 2013, in collaboration with the College of DuPage Foundation, The Budilovsky Literary Endowed Scholarship was formed. This Financial Scholarship is awarded each semester to a College of DuPage student who demonstrates significant literary potential. It will continue to be awarded to talented student writers in perpetuity for generations to come.