Is Red Light Therapy Legit?

Photodynamic Red Light Therapy (Photo courtesy of the National Cancer Institute)

CF writes: “I was reading about the new LUMEBOX red light therapy. It is promoted to be better than medications in helping almost everything. Could you illuminate me as to whether this is a hoax?”

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Woman Paralyzed While Practicing Acroyoga

Acroyoga (Photo courtesy of Wikicommons Images, Earl McGehee, CC BY-SA 3.0)

JK writes: “I recently heard about a woman who suffered a horrendous injury from a type of yoga called acroyoga. Is this real yoga or another one of those spin-offs we hear about.”

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Is your heart open?

August 31

“The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds … empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.”

-St. Edith Stein

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