Love
The Dali Lama said my religion is kindness. How beautiful it would be if we could live our lives in constant kindness to others and to ourselves. But what underlies our capability for kindness? It is love. Love, caring, and concern lead to kind thoughts, words, and...
Meditation
Meditation, the practice of focusing your mind on a single point of reference, offers a multitude of benefits for both mental and physical well-being. It involves training your attention to keep your mind from wandering, and can be practiced in various forms, from...
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness Meditation no longer seems like “the next new thing to be popular”. Instead, it’s evidence base keeps growing, showing its’ effectiveness for reducing stress (including cortisol measures), anxiety, and pain, while increasing sleep and quality of life....
Happiness
Happiness comes to us in many ways. One way is through alignment. Alignment of our values and beliefs with how we live every day. Alignment of what we see and do with what we love. Balancing work with play. Our daily actions then have meaning and create happiness when...
Mindfulness Meditation Visual
Mindfulness Meditation can focus on breath and body sensations, hearing, vision, smell or any combination of our senses. Here is a short guide for a visual meditation. If you find this difficult, then you may want to consider taking a class in Mindfulness Meditation....
Reflux and GERD – Part 1 of 5
Hi, Yes, I have suffered from reflux. The first time I had it was during the time I was going through a significant life event, a divorce. Wow, did it hurt! Diet is important, of course, and the very things I thought would be helpful (cool ice cream!) was NOT good for...
Meditation Intervention
Hi, For Health and Wellness, physicians now recommend eating healthy foods, getting sufficient exercise and enough sleep, and learning to meditate. These statistics show that by learning to meditate you’ll get better sleep AND you will likely have the energy to...About me
A Life of Science, Spirit, and Service
Dr. Valerie J. Rice is a grounded force of healing—a practitioner, scientist, and soul guide who brings decades of experience to her work at VitaLife Center. Her path began in occupational therapy and expanded into something more profound: the integration of evidence-based healing and energy-based wisdom.
Dr. Valerie J. Rice is a grounded force of healing—a practitioner, scientist, and soul guide who brings decades of experience to her work at VitaLife Center. Her path began in occupational therapy and expanded into something more profound: the integration of evidence-based healing and energy-based wisdom.