Festival season is on! How better to spend Summer days than meeting ecstatic people, indulging in your favorite music, and dancing through the warm nights.

While music festivals remain a popular way to gather for the summer, many festivals are stepping it up a notch by offering community-based activities for festival-goers. These festivals are based on sustainability, transformation, and a way for healers to gather and healing to take place in a pleasant atmosphere, where the good vibes happen whether you’re in a gardening class or front and center by the biggest stage.

Apple cider vinegar (ACV) is one of those wonderful foods that is not only a tasty ingredient in recipes, but also has many uses and benefits to the body.

When we get sick, we trust the guy in the white lab coat behind the counter. Yet as we take over-the-counter prescriptions and other drugs to alleviate our symptoms, we are doing our bodies more harm than good. The chemicals that make these quick fix drugs possible are hard on organs throughout the body, leading to more serious problems in the future. Before pharmaceutical drug companies ruled the world and teamed up with doctors to push their prescriptions on us, we used nature's resources along with our body's natural responses to fight off disease.

4 Reasons Why Cinnamon Improves Your Health

Cinnamon is one of the most popular spices around the world because of its distinct aroma and sweetness. A pinch of cinnamon does wonders to a hot drink or a cool dessert. But this fragrant spice does more than just satisfy the palate. It helps the body fight off diseases, disorders, and infection. There are different types of cinnamon that are sold in markets. Ceylon cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum) is called “true cinnamon,” but is expensive compared to Cassia cinnamon (Cinnamomum aromaticum).

Spices and herbs are great for flavoring food, but did you know that they can also be beneficial for your health as well? Here are 12 super herbs and spices said to have some marvelous uses for health.

1. Turmeric

In Sanskrit, the word mantra refers to the repetition of a certain sound or phrase and is a deeply healing, life-altering practice. Mantra is easy to incorporate for both personal-empowerment and general health, due to its simplicity and accessibility to all. Through the act of merely repeating certain sounds aloud, or to oneself, the vibration of the cellular structure of the body is altered in such a way that health can be realized, greater prosperity can be known, and general well-being can be integrated into one's being.

How does this work?

Coconuts are a rich source of nutrients that have a myriad of applications. There are just as many ways they can be prepared. The nomenclature coconut is confusing because it is not a nut at all, but instead a drupe or fruit that has three layers: an outer layer that is smooth and green, a fleshy middle layer that is fibrous and a hard, and a woody layer that surrounds the seed. This third layer is what we find at the market. The origin of the coconut is somewhat mysterious. One theory is that it was first found growing in India.

Kids are hyper, but that doesn't mean that they all need to be on some form of medication. Let's take a look at some of the approaches to calming kids the natural way. There are so many natural ways to help your little ones calm down when they're too anxious or hyper. Taking the natural approach can be safer and healthier than prescription medication, not to mention how much cheaper it is, too.

Using Teas For Calming Relaxation

Growing means you experience more – and is an amazing, freeing, and expansive experience. You understand the world better. You meet people you never knew you were missing. But an expanded view means you’ll come across some obstacles, too, no longer nestled in the safety of your hometown, family home, or familiar relationship Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

There is an unspoken way in which our society dulls our inner light – not directly, but through layers of discouragement and complacency, comparison and doubt. It is somehow instilled in many people that the freedom to rejoice in your own light is somehow unjust, selfish, or finite. This is wrong. Not only are humans supposed to stoke their own flames, but ought to help others light their paths as well.