HuffPost's Retooled Living Section: a User's Manual for Living a Balanced Life

Welcome to the newly retooled Living section.

Take a look around. You'll notice that all the great articles on fashion, food, sex, and the hottest trends have been spun off into their own Style section.

Living is now more focused on all the ways we can take care of ourselves and lead more balanced, centered lives while at the same time making a difference in the world.

We'll be bringing you the best news and opinion on how to live life well -- encompassing the inner life, the balanced life, and the giving life.

So along with aggregating the latest tips and articles on ways to improve the quality of our life, we are also bringing on board a host of new contributors, each with a unique perspective on the subjects you've told us you are most interested in, including health, relationships, diet and exercise, spiritual awareness, philanthropy, meditation -- and generally finding more meaning in our lives. We'd love to see virtual communities developing around these areas -- with ongoing conversations between contributors and users, and amongst the users themselves.

To celebrate this relaunch, the Living section is sponsoring the HuffPost Oasis during the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The Oasis is a place where hurried and harried conventioneers can unplug and recharge. It will feature complimentary yoga classes, Thai massages, hand massages, mini-facials, healthy snacks and refreshments, music, and a comfortable seating area for lounging and unwinding.

To paraphrase Sinatra: if you can find balance amidst the convention craziness, you can find it anywhere!

And our editors will be bringing you extensive coverage of all the goings on at The Oasis, including blogging and interviews about how the conventioneers unplug and recharge -- both in Denver and in their daily life.

As always, we want to hear your feedback about what you like and don't like about what we are offering on Living. We're all excited about continuing to build a vibrant, interactive community of people looking to lead fuller, more balanced lives -- learning both from the experts and from each other.

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Comments

[MetroZing]

Love the makeover; it's very right-left (right-brain, left-brain) appealing.

[joannehuy]

Six ways to do this, five ways to do that, seven ways to do whatever--how much self-help can anyone stomach?

[Silknspark]

The best way one can help themselves, is to help another.
Until they learn how to do that, they're usually pretty isolated, miserable individuals.

[Silknspark]

Congratulations and - Thank YOU Arianna!
Great idea.
Horsemen know well the importance of "balanced - or centered riding." That's the only way you can stay on a horse. Has nothing to do with strength, and everything to do with balance.
Same with life eh.
I'm working on a write called "Aura of Influence," for it's been my observation for a long while, that the main flaw we have in today's culture, is a disconnect from ones actions to the extent they have zero awareness as to how they impact those around them...and themselves.

[chandra-shekar]

Arianna,

I love the new Living section. I think it has more focus and hence more opportunities for new articles on how to live a balanced life. I'm also glad that articles on fashion, food and sex are now in the Style section.

I specialize on the subject of living life after loss (lost my wife of 34 years to cancer three and half years ago). I also work with cancer patients helping them with meditation and hypnotherapy. I gain a lot of inspiration for your columnists.

Thank you!

[Stormchaser44]

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Arianna
This is great news. You really understand the need for balance. Sometimes with all the political coverage a person can overlook the need to start life from within and then progress outward to the rest of society.Kudos to whomever came up with this idea.

[NoFactsJustTruth]

I've found more lamb kabob and shawarma in the Big D than I have souvlaki and dolmas, Arianna, but I don't get there often enough to discover the best places, anyway. But, perhaps in line with the focus on healthy foods that might be featured in HuffPost's Living, might I also suggest celebrating various ethnic cuisines from around the world that can provide new options for better nutrition. A cooking style I've come to love the last couple decades, for instance, that's low in fats with an exploding abundance of flavor and fresh vegetable nutrition is Vietnamese, and on my last trip to Denver I spotted many quality Pho restaurants, and discovered a new favorite of every one I tried.

I've cooked and done the marketing for my family for more than 30 years, Arianna, and while I wouldn't necessarily want HuffPost's Living to become just about food, the proposed enhancements will be appreciated by more than myself, I'm sure.