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image:  vintagestock By Crabby McSlacker More states may be legalizing cannabis, but recreational use is still considered pretty contr...

photo: wikipedia By Crabby McSlacker So recently I spent an hour in a flotation tank. Or, as they're also known, an isolation ta...

By Crabby McSlacker Crabby and the Lobster have at last arrived in Austin where they are spending the winter. Lots to love about Austin...

photo via  James Vaughan By Crabby McSlacker Being a self-absorbed nutball, I've embarked on boatloads of psychological self-impro...

By Crabby McSlacker Anyone else trying to work in some meditation every day?  If you haven't seen this yet, it's perfect for a ...

By Crabby McSlacker So a New York Times article just highlighted a study suggesting that " mindfulness can jumpstart exercise rou...

photo: original source unknown. Now it's all over the freakin' web. By Crabby McSlacker I know that meditation and other for...

photo upload: x-ray delta one So lately I've been dealing with a little more stress than I'm accustomed to. And I've been ...

photo: James Vaughan By Crabby McSlacker Having recently written about my twisted take on  walking meditation  and  aqua-aerobics , I...

By Crabby McSlacker   So as I mentioned, my knee is kinda fucked up lately and I've been doing less of the huffy-puffy type exe...

Walking meditation is a wonderful way to combine both mental and physical exercise, allowing you to kill two birds with one stone.  (Let...

So why would Cranky Fitness readers want to check out a review of an online course I took this summer called The Enlightened Brain? ...

Photo: Moloko Sara Four What's with the enlightenment? Well, in addition to the usual odd assortment of health news, links, and miscel...

Photo: h.koppdelaney There are many components of healthy living: eating right, exercising, refraining from smoking, keeping up with medica...

Photo credit Some folks are adventurous optimists. They assume that all new experiences will be fun. Ask one of these folks: "Hey, op...

[ Posted by Crabby ] There are probably lots of people who don't spend 95% of their workout time analyzing every aspect of it. Some peo...

In an earlier post on failed efforts at self-improvement , Crabby mentioned she had tried meditation. And tried meditation. And tried medit...