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Help Save the World. Go Plogging.

plogging

Grab some friends and try this new fitness trend. What is plogging, you ask? If you love to run, jog, hike or walk for exercise, listen up–try plogging. It’s a fitness craze that started in Sweden and is spreading across Europe and through North America, and it’s spread globally as a way to combine exercise and community service. It’s a combination of two words: jogging and the Swedish phrase for pick up, ‘plocka upp’. Created by Erik Ahlström in 2016, plogging is an eco-friendly exercise through which people pick up trash while jogging or brisk walking outside. You can also …

Meditation changed my life

meditation changed my life

Seems a bit dramatic, doesn’t it? I probably would have thought so too, a year ago. Sure, I was all for meditation. As a wellness professional, I preached its stress-relief benefits for years. I believed that meditation improved well-being. That’s just it though–I believed it in theory, but I didn’t really know it. Not first-hand. My emphasis leaned heavily on the body’s physical health. I never missed a workout. Meditation, well…I dabbled. A workout accomplishes something. What does just sitting there noticing the thoughts in my head do, especially when I have a sink full of dishes to wash? Sure, …