Heart to heart

Jo | July 2, 2009

A new study by researchers in the Department of Animal Environment and Health at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala apparently shows that horses’ heart rates can be affected by a human’s heart rate.  The study had people both ride and lead horses near someone holding an umbrella.  The person with the horse [...]

Comfort Zones: An Introduction

Jo | June 25, 2009

All of us have various comfort zones. A comfort zone is a place where we feel “comfortable.” It can apply to different ways that we interact with the world, so we may have a physical comfort zone, a psychological comfort zone, an emotional comfort zone, an intellectual comfort zone, and a spiritual comfort zone. We learn what these comfort zones are as we experience life. We often don’t even realize we have them.