Mindfulness Medication

 Hey team, Today, I’d like to write about wellness as a follow-up to my previous post on health and wellness. I know the term “wellness” gets thrown around all the time and has somewhat lost its value, but regardless of what we call it, engaging in practices that serve your body and mind is essential. In previous posts, I discussed how most issues, in terms of subjective dysfunction, symptoms, or diseases, result from your cells not working well. While some things may feel like dysfunction, such as being stressed or sad in response to something serious, these are healthy and normal responses that are not pathological. On the other hand, if this stress or sadness is prolonged for weeks to months and extremely severe, that is actual dysfunction.  To explain that more comprehensively, in a healthy state where all or most of one's cells are functioning perfectly, symptoms or strange lab values don’t come up. But as our cells are damaged by major stressors (both physical and psycho...

  Hey team, As you all know I am a barista at java junction on seabright in santa cruz. Last year I posted a trivia facts about the place and some of the other employees there. Today I’d like to make another list. Karen is a cancer If you enter through the doors near the bar, you can read the answer to the question of the day and always get a free cup of coffee  At least one employee's mom has fake boobs  The non dairy milk is from costco  At least 3 people are going/ have gone to europe this summer  Micheal is from the midwest and makes old man noises  Emilee is an EMT but still works a shift every now and again  Most of our baristas have been employees at other local coffeeshops before  You can bet that a chappel roan song will come on at least once during a shift  We exclusively carry non fat yogurt which is loaded with sugar  If you are nice and know how to work it, you can probably get a discount 

  Hey team, Per usual, I have been reading about health and wellness topics in addition to practicing what I preach. While I am nowhere close to the epitome of healthy, happy living, I and the people around me can see that I’m doing pretty well overall. This is in terms of the objective behaviors I engage in, from what I eat to how I spend my time, and my subjective experience of feeling, well, fantastic! More recently, it has become apparent that many people do not prioritize or even care much about their health and well-being, which are, of course, inseparable. While acknowledging that I cannot read minds and therefore cannot understand the full extent of why people are the way they are, given the distributed causality of what formed them into the person they are today, I also know rather objectively the utter importance of taking care of yourself. Yes, many of us are busy, stressed, uninformed, and often responsible for dependents, which can lead to neglecting our own health and...