health
More Native American-inspired Needlepoint – Medicine Bear
Yesterday I started work on the second Native American-inspired needlepoint designs. This one I’m calling my health needlepoint. It’s focal point is the Zuni fetish of a Medicine Bear (pictured above), my favorite. The Medicine Bear represents powerful healing to the Zuni. It’s always in this rounded form, and usually has the arrow and often... »
Needlework and Health
From the March issue of O magazine: . . .According to research at the Harvard-affiliated Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, the repetitive motion and focus of needlework can elicit what’s known as the relaxation response – a calming meditation-like state that slows heart rate and causes blood pressure to drop. In addition, a study... »
Needlepoint as Stress Release
My brain is fried, I have too much work to do, and the weather here in Northern California has turned brutally hot. Oh and my migraine is in its second day. Does this sound like you? What we both need is a stress release. Something which takes us out of ourselves, let’s us go to another... »