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  1. Massage is Relaxing. Discuss...

    The author touches on EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Therapy), the internationally recognized and well-researched treatment for trauma, and the Holosync technology - develope...more

  2. Massage Matters: Massage and Medication

    This column focuses on the use of proper medication and massage techniques on an elderly woman with a complex medical picture....as she suffers from lower back pain due to wear and...more

  3. Massage Techniques for Childbirth

    Touch, in the form of a positive massage during labour, was an area I wanted to explore to determine whether it is a useful way of shifting the focus of active support away from th...more

  4. Massage Therapy for people with Cancer: A Practitioner's Experience

    In this article, Louise Roy describes her experience with one cancer patient and discusses the challenges facing massage practitioners. During training, many massage students are w...more

  5. Massage, Sex and Supervision

    This article focuses on the erotic aspect of body massage and why practitioners and clients rarely get turned on, despite there being some similarities between some of the rituals ...more

  6. Mastering Your Emotions - Waking WREMS State

    WREMS – Waking REM State is a skill. Not therapy or pop-psych or new age magic – it is a practical tool that allows you direct access to your subconscious mind and the power to cal...more

  7. Matrix Energy Field Therapy

    In Energy Field Therapy there is conscious manipulation of the energy flow for the purposes of healing and personal transformation. It aims to access disruptions to the energy flow...more

  8. Matrix Repatterning(tm) - The Structural Basis of Health

    In this authoritative feature, Dr. George Roth, the originator of Matrix Repatterning, explains how symptoms, especially in chronic conditions, are often the result of the compensa...more

  9. Maybe God Does Play Dice?

    Walk into any regular supermarkets and read the ingredients in all the nicely packaged foods they sell. Most will contain toxic substances, whether it is colorants, trans-fats, pres...more

  10. McTimoney Chiropractic

    As the largest healthcare profession in the world after medicine and dentistry, and in the light of the new legislation regulating its practice in the UK, chiropractic is fast beco...more

  11. McTimoney Chiropractic

    McTimoney chiropractic is a particular branch of the profession in the UK which developed for some years outside of the apparent mainstream, so to speak. There are over 300 McTimon...more

  12. McTimoney-Corley Spinal Therapy

    This article focuses on McTimoney-Corley Spinal Therapy, a treatment that involves gentle whole body manipulation. The therapy works at the level of adjusting the bones and realign...more

  13. ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Causes and the Amygdala Retraining Recovery Programme

    This article focuses on ME, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), which affects approximately 250,000 people in the UK. However, as yet, there is no agreement in the medica...more

  14. ME a misunderstood and much maligned disease

    Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is an illness which for years has divided the medical profession, yet no-one who has experienced it, or who has had the responsibility of caring for ...more

  15. ME-CFS: Redefining Rest and Learning to be a Psychopath

    At this moment, I am struggling with at least three themes: Getting ‘rest’ recognized as ‘treatment’, getting the influence of certain psychiatrists recognized as part of our societ...more

  16. ME, CFS, Now SEID

    I was dreading the outcome of the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on ME/CFS. All of us who have this illness (or one of these illnesses) know from bitter experience that phy...more

  17. ME: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Mercury Exhaustion?

    The author looks at connections between musculature, the nervous system and the brain and examines similar symptoms of toxicity given different diagnostic “labels” by the medical sy...more

  18. ME/CFS Advice for 2019

    I apologise in advance to both those who already know and practise much of this, and to those who will find it much too complicated and long-winded. ME/CFS is a big and complicated...more

  19. ME/CFS, Covid, Long Covid: Rest and Ivermectin

    This article is a discussion of the role of old-fashioned rest, and the widely used drug, Ivermectin in the treatment of Covid 19. We are now well into the second year of a pandemic...more

  20. ME/CFS, NLP and the Lightning Process™ in the Looking Glass

    The purpose of this article is to provide an explanation of the theoretical model and practical processes underlying both appropriate and inappropriate use of NLP in the treatment o...more

  21. ME/CFS: Ethical and Unethical Uses of NLP

    This article will not be welcomed by those who practice and believe in the use of NLP as an effective treatment for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - ME/CFS.more

  22. ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Under or Misdiagnosed?

    ME is not a very useful term. It has evolved from a diagnosis used in the 1950s, Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, stemming from the Ancient Greek meaning painful and ‘inflammation ...more

  23. Meat, How to Keep it a Healthy Part of your Diet

    Last month saw more good news for vegetarians. An announcement from the World Health Organisation (WHO) informed us that processed meat definitely causes cancer. Processed meat has ...more

  24. Medical Astrology - The Four Elements in Therapy

    The author is qualified in Nutritional Medicine, Iridology, as well as being a student of Medical Astrology. The article describes the four major astrological elements, earth, fire...more

  25. Medical Education Needs Booster Dose

    What is the purpose of medical education, especially in today’s context – when it continues to struggle in the face of the Covid-19 tornado? The answer is simple  –  medical educati...more

  26. Medical Fraud Exposed

    When the roof and the foundations of a house begin to collapse, the demolition guys get called in. Likewise, as the foundations of conventional medicine begin to collapse, the medi...more

  27. Medical Intuition - Interview with Lori Wilson BA MSW

    Medical intuition can often pinpoint pre-clinical information, imbalances or weaknesses in specific areas, subtle issues, as well as the strengths in a person's energy field. This ...more

  28. Medical Ozone as a Potential Alternative for Knee Osteoarthritis

    Osteoarthritis is the most common musculoskeletal condition in older people. It is estimated that a third of people aged 45 years and over in the UK have sought treatment for osteoa...more

  29. Medical Qigong - An Innovative Treatment for Hypertension

    In this article the author maintains that hypertension, more commonly known as high blood pressure, is the number one morbidity factor in developed countries. Allopathic (conventio...more

  30. Medicinal Application of Caribbean Herbs

    The Caribbean region is more than just a sun and sand holiday destination. It is considered to be one of 34 biodiversity hotspots in the world and is certainly a 'hotspot' for medic...more

  31. Medicinal Mushrooms - Ancient Medicine in Modern Times

    Although mushrooms have been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years, their medicinal properties and health benefits have now been proved through clinical studies, p...more

  32. Medicinal Mushrooms - The New Addition to Western Herbal Medicine

    This article focuses on Medicinal Mushrooms, which have been used for millennia in traditional medical practices in the East. Fungus, such as Ganoderma Lucidum (resihi, ling zhi) w...more

  33. Medicinal Mushrooms: Natural Supplement for Diabetics

    Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease where the body has increased blood sugar levels due to two reasons, in the majority of cases: the regulatory anabolic hormone, the ins...more

  34. Medicinal Plants for Curing Common Ailments in India

    The Patalkot forest is so well hidden that people on the outside didn't even know it existed. It is a very special place, rich with plants and animals. The natives who live there k...more

  35. Medicine’s Fresh New Hope

    It  goes without saying that neurobiology holds fresh hope for individuals suffering from emotional as well as other developmental disorders. This is because of the prospect of quic...more

  36. Meditating On a Plastic Bottle!

    The author discusses the subject of meditation, and of retreats, in which people experience an environment conducive to re-evaluation of their lives, meditative development, a se...more

  37. Meditation - A Practical Approach to the Art of Relaxed Awareness

    The author, a meditation teacher, emphasizes important aspects of his role, such as reassurance and encouragement, as well as the wide knowledge he needs to impart in terms of the ...more

  38. Meditation - a Way of Life

    So much time is spent living in the relative dream worlds of the future or the past, we would do well to remember that both come from the present moment. The more we are able to li...more

  39. Meditation - Antidote to Stress

    Nancy Goudie, public speaker, author, broadcaster, singer and teacher, looks at the possibility of alleviating stress through meditation.more

  40. Meditation & Mindfulness Toward Positive Transformation and Fulfilment

    We all exist in two different worlds. One is the external world; the other is our inner world. We tend to spend all of our time in the outer world but very little, if any, in our i...more

  41. Meditation and Stress Coping using Kabbalistic Techniques and Techniques for Releasing Anxiety

    This article focuses on the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah and how it can be applied in our lives to help us cope with various situations such as stress.more

  42. Meditation for Health

    Put simply, meditation is a way of slowing down. By sitting for maybe twenty or thirty minutes at a time, focusing on your chosen process, you can move into a space where you may e...more

  43. Meditation for ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Conditions

    The author explains that stress, and the stress response, play an important role in the factors which lead up to ME, and then even more so as a response to the symptoms, as the s...more

  44. Meditation for Personal Transformation

    This article is not written to your intellect. It is addressed to someone deeper within you. Read slowly. Do your best to just read it without judgment, and soon you will begin to ...more

  45. Meditation for Self-Realization

    This article describes an ancient form of pure meditation, involving learning and practising given breaths. It is a deeper meditation than the meditative states that can be achieve...more

  46. Meditation: Staying Present to the Now

    To live fully in the present is to become awakened to what is truly real and to our own natural power. Much of our life is spent living in the past, and in the process, attempting ...more

  47. Meditations To Boost Back Health

    As a known and published spinal surgeon, Dr Ken Hansraj has dedicated more than 20 years of his life to helping people across the globe improve their spinal health. He is a prominen...more

  48. Meet the Endocannibanoids - Pleasure Producers, Pain Relievers - And Much More: The Bodywork Connection

    In this Expert Column, Leon Chaitow looks at our body’s ability to produce virtually identical chemicals to those that appear in cannabis. He tells us that through exercise and t...more

  49. Memories of My Trip to Domaine de L'Ylang-Ylang

    This is the story of the author's first inspiring visit to Mauritius in January 2001 and first long-haul flight. It was there that she discovered a remote site called Domaine de L'...more

  50. Menopause - A Chinese Approach

    The author has been practising acupuncture since she qualified with The College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in 1984 and is a founding member of the Scottish Post Polio Netwo...more

  51. Menopause - Natural Approaches

    Natural approaches using a variety of complementary therapies to alleviate menopausal symptoms are known and can be exceedingly effective for both constitutional and symptomatic cl...more

  52. Menopause Nutrition for IBS and your Gut

    Many women experience gut symptoms in midlife.  Bloating, gas, discomfort around your middle, diarrhoea or constipation are all common gut problems. They may be labelled as IBS and ...more

  53. Menopause the Natural Way

    There are few women who would turn down the chance to look and feel younger if a magic pill were offered. But is HRT really such an elixir, or could it actually shorten life? New...more

  54. Menopause: Gateway to Better Health

    The Chinese do not have a name for the Menopause. Interestingly, the ending of periods is not considered an illness in China, but instead a natural and healthy transition from one p...more

  55. Mental Health Benefits of Nature

    What if there was a natural way to uplift your mood, destress, promote a sense of wellbeing, leave you calm yet energised, without side-affects, dependency or prescription? What if ...more

  56. Mental Health Concerns during the Pandemic

    The raging Corona pandemic has taken a heavy toll on human lives and health. Grim statistics stare you in the face every morning. Apart from people dying and hospitals bursting at t...more

  57. Mental Health: the Psyche's Journey to Wholeness

    Transpersonal psychology is a school of psychology that encompasses the transcendent, the spiritual dimension, 'trans' meaning 'beyond' the personal.more

  58. Mercury Amalgam Fillings - Removal & Detoxification

    Catherine Crawford, an aromatherapist with a diploma in nutritional medicine, describes how, at the age of 46, she decided to seek help from a sympathetic dentist to remove her ama...more

  59. Mercury and Selenium - The Battle of the Elements

    Dental students are taught that amalgams are composed of a mixture of metals with varying composition of mercury, silver, zinc, tin and copper. They are told that these individual ...more

  60. Mercury Free Dentistry

    We are dentists. Definitely not normal dentists. We realised over ten years ago that mercury from amalgam fillings could injure patients, so we became "Mercury Free". Now we are of...more

  61. Mercury Madness

    The author is a journalist who writes about her friend Pam Calyton's experience of and recovery from poisoning by the mercury in her fillings.more

  62. Mercury Poisoning from Amalgam Fillings

    Mercury, the most toxic metal in amalgam fillings, has a long history of use and an equally long history of known toxic effects. Despite man's efforts to use mercury, its poisonous...more

  63. META-Kinetics: A Synthesis of META-Medicine and Cyberkinetics

    The article covers two topics: META-Medicine and Cyberkinetics, then explaining how the two fields can work together to form a comprehensive system for helping people achieve good ...more

  64. Metabolic Typing - Part 1

    Body typing focuses on such factors as the personality, appearance and biochemistry of the client rather than on the disease to determine specific body type and make nutritional an...more

  65. Metabolic Typing - Part 2

    This article continues the study of metabolic typing introduced in Issue 65, looking in greater detail at the testing procedures used in William Wolcott's system and presenting a c...more

  66. Metabolic Typing: A Highly Individualized, Fine-Tuned Nutritional Guideline

    This article looks at why certain diets and nutritional guidelines work on some people and not others. It questions why some people still do not feel fit even when they eat healt...more

  67. Metamorphic Technique - Tool for Inner Change

    The Metamorphic Technique was created in the 1960s by Robert St John, a British naturopath and reflexologist, and further developed by Gaston St Pierre, founder of the Metamorphic ...more

  68. Micro-element Therapy and Mineral Imbalances - A Practitioner's Case Studies

    As a therapist, I have used Micro-element Therapy (MET) for some 12 years and never cease to be amazed at its effect. This paper aims to give an outline of how it works in practice...more

  69. Midwifery Practice and Complementary Therapy - A policy point of view

    Midwifery practitioners in many parts of the country receive requests from pregnant women who are interested in or are already using complementary therapies. The holistic ethos of ...more

  70. Migraine Links

    Migraine is a painfully intense, pulsating severe headache, usually affecting one side of the head (hemi crania) and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, visual and digestive dist...more

  71. Migraine Sufferers Top 10 Million in UK – How Can we Manage Migraine Attacks more Effectively?

    Just why are more Brits in pain and how can we manage migraine attacks more effectively? Suzie Sawyer, Clinical Nutritionist, provides her Top Tips.more

  72. Migraines and Headache

    The article examines the differences between migraines and headaches and states that the most common type of headache is muscular. It gives the causes for headaches as follows: p...more

  73. Milk - Review of its Composition, Ingestion, Dietary and Health Profile

    ‘Drink your milk, it’s good for you’ was a phrase we heard frequently as children. As CAM Providers over the last few decades, we have been finding that ingestion of milk or dairy ...more

  74. Million Dollar Health Secrets - Standing Meditation

    In my twenty-five years as a body therapist I have come across the words "million dollar health secret" three times. The term denotes a simple technique or practice which can easil...more

  75. Mind and Body Health with NLP and EFT

    This article focuses on how best to achieve mind and body health. The author believes the best place to start is by looking at our emotional state as the baggage we carry drives ou...more

  76. Mind Mapping for Positive Health

    Mind Mapping was devised as a memory tool by Tony Buzan in the '70s and since that time, it has evolved considerably and its applications have extended substantially. A Mind Map® i...more

  77. Mind Matters: The Physics of Consciousness

    The essence of time, along with space, holds the pivot to metaphysics. It also finds representation in a host of things that exist in nature. How? With the passing of every event in...more

  78. Mind Over Matter: The Fuzzy Logic of our Inner Self

    Mindful meditation is the practice of intentionally focusing your attention on the present-moment – and accepting it without judgment. It relates to open receptivity and awareness o...more

  79. Mind Over Minefield

    Complementary medicine can be a minefield. Sometimes a battlefield. Its typical freelance sole proprietor can be as fiercely competitive as any ruthless corporate giant.more

  80. Mind The Gap: From Fashion to Form and Function

    Have you ever heard of the thigh gap? I hadn’t before reading an article titled Body language (The Guardian 12.11.13). This ‘essential’ reading is all about identifying anatomical b...more

  81. Mind to Mend your Emotions

    Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung articulated that the most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. He also underlined th...more

  82. Mind-Body Medicine Explained

    Pain is a message from our body that there is a problem that needs to be sorted out, and if the pain signals are just shut off, the problem can get worse because we haven’t tackled...more

  83. Mind, Medicine and the Placebo Effect

    Conventional paradigms in medicine decree that a living creature is nothing more than complex of molecules and electromagnetism which have somehow self-organized themselves into ...more

  84. Mind, Miracles & Meaning Part 1: Manage your Mind to Train your Brain

    This is the first of a three part series of articles that describe the process of creating miracles and meaning by challenging your current mindset to think differently. The first i...more

  85. Mind, Miracles and Meaning Part II: Miracles ‘are’ Meaning

    A simple sound such as “mmmmm’ can carry so much meaning that we make it up in our minds that it’s actually real. This has us thinking that what we believe is going to happen - actu...more

  86. Mind, Miracles and Meaning Part III: The Answer to Life’s Mysteries

    Learning to live your life through meaning that others have bestowed on you is by no means an easy task. What has transpired through your mind are those things that have been ‘post...more

  87. Mind/Body Talk: NLP as 'Software for the Brain' - Chunking

    The author expands the subject of chunking, a relatively straightforward concept taught in NLP training, and shows how it can lead to very powerful interventions in the context of ...more

  88. Mind/Body Talk: NLP Talking Therapies - The Brooklyn Program

    Many of the basic techniques used in the Brooklyn Program were taken from NLP, therapy tools and strategies developed in the mid-1970's by Richard Bandler and John Grinder who mo...more

  89. Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility

    The author reports on the similarity of his work as a social psychologist and that of Ellen Langer, the author of Counter Clockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Th...more

  90. Mindfulness and Meditation are the Steps to Wellbeing during COVID-19

    The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has not been kind to anyone. Externally, we are maintaining social distancing norms and stay-at-home orders, but internally, we are absorbed with feel...more

  91. Mindfulness and the Breath

    We are usually unaware of our breathing. The authors, a holistic medical doctor and an osteopath, both find that how we breathe is of fundamental importance in maintaining health, ...more

  92. Mindfulness for People Living with Long Term Conditions

    As the numbers of people living with a Long Term Condition (LTC) increases worldwide,[1] a new study ‘Starting Where I Am’[2] explores how practising mindfulness can positively affe...more

  93. Mindfulness in Everyday Life – Tools to Provide Calm, Reduce Stress and Help Gain Clarity of Thought

    During the pandemic, people are experiencing more stress and anxiety than ever before. This is caused by uncertainty and ever-changing information. It means we are having to adapt a...more

  94. Mindfulness Meditation - Finding True Inner Peace

    Many of us spend our whole lives searching for happiness and inner peace. Sadly, some of us never find them. We try to acquire the things that our society tells us will make us happ...more

  95. Mindfulness Meditation for Stress

    The stress in our lives is now so great and so insidious that more and more people are making the deliberate decision to understand it better and to bring it under personal control...more

  96. Mindfulness… is it Enough?

    Of course, we know about mindfulness, and of course, we believe it’s a good thing…  being in touch with what is really happening intuitively seems a benefit…more

  97. Mineral Deficiency and Viral Mutation: Nutritional, Agricultural and Geographic Influences

    This article hypothesizes whether many of the devastating influenzas such as avian flu and Beijing flu which originate from China, may lie with mineral levels in the soil.more

  98. Mineral Oil Petroleum Derivative in Beauty Products

    This article outlines the dangers of the mineral oils found so ubiquitously in the majority of cosmetic products. Mineral oils (produced from petroleum) are contained in many cosme...more

  99. Miranda's Bowl of Porridge

    This regular column by June Butlin illustrates how the author tackled the long-term weight problems experienced by a middle-aged client.more

  100. Mirrored Healing – All About Biofeedback

    It is not as bizarre as it appears to be on the surface. The human body and the ubiquitous chip have something in common – a palpable flair for self-regulation. Your electronic gizm...more

  101. Miscarriage A Life and Death Experience

    Today, five out of six women miscarry – an alarming statistic which is worth taking seriously. I would like to share my recent, personal experience in order to give support to othe...more

  102. Mistaken Identity - the Consciously Intuitive Heart and Reasoning Faculty of the Brain

    Humans like nothing better than a neat summary of ‘what’s going on’. This has become part of our modern empirical paradigm and it consolidates nicely the materialistic standpoint. T...more

  103. Mistletoe - A Holistic, Patient-Centred Adjunctive Therapy

    The high incidence of cancer necessitates widespread implementation of supportive therapies that may enhance patients’ otherwise reduced quality of life as they navigate their diagn...more

  104. Mistletoe Therapy

    Although Iscador is contraindicated for some types of cancer, the author herself was given Iscador injections prior to cancer surgery. With the additional help of a homeopathic rem...more

  105. Mistletoe Therapy and Hyperthermia for Cancer: Turning Up the Heat

    Cancer patients very often seek ways of helping themselves to improve their health and to feel in charge of their treatment process. They perceive the mainstream cancer treatments a...more

  106. Mitigating Migraines - How to Fight Migraines Naturally

    Nothing derails your day quicker than a migraine. But once a migraine begins, there may be natural ways to lessen its effects. Here’s everything you need to know about managing a mi...more

  107. Mitochondrial Fatigue or Mitochondrial Sabotage?

    Mitochondria are protein-rich small bodies (organelles) with a double membrane and are located in the cytoplasm of all[1] cells (except red blood cells). Mitochondria contain geneti...more

  108. Mitosa Therapy - Energy Healing

    John Morely looks at the positive aspects electromagnetic radiation. The electromagnetic radiation we receive from the sun is critical for our survival as it provides energy, but, ...more

  109. Mobile Phones - Proceed with Precaution

    The author is the editor of Electromagnetic Hazard & Therapy News Report. In this article he updates the situation regarding possible hazards from mobile phone use.more

  110. Modern Ways To Monitor your Health

    Until recently, getting health advice of any kind – whether on our blood pressure, cholesterol or general fitness – nearly always meant a trip to the doctor. But modern technology i...more

  111. Molecular and Clinical Effects of Deuterium Depleted Water in Treatment and Prevention of Cancer

    Deuterium-depletion is a new complementary modality in oncotherapy and prevention; the method can be safely applied in addition to conventional treatments and as an extension of tho...more

  112. Molecular Genetic Discoveries: Towards a Better Understanding of Homeopathy

    This article explores exciting new developments in molecular biology and the study of the effects of homeopathic remedies on specific genes.  Homeopathy has long been questioned ...more

  113. Molecular Hydrogen H2

    Health care ought to be cheap and every person should have an easy access of information to sustain their wellbeing. Traditional Western medicine dropped us and the sooner we realiz...more

  114. Mom has a Brain Tumour

    This article focuses on the author’s day to day experiences, mental and emotional, with her mother’s condition from the time she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. As...more

  115. Money Magic - Money Metaphysics

    The author shares what she has learned about the dynamics of money making, and how to create a positive relationship with money in general. She finds people basically spend to solv...more

  116. Moon Flowers: Accessing the Past

    This article focuses on Moon Flowers made under moonlight and explains the differences between the qualities that radiate from the Sun and the Moon. It also looks at why the absorp...more

  117. More on Existential Philosophy and Modern Psychotherapy

    In an earlier issue of Positive Health (Issue 40, May 1999) the influence of existentialism on modern psychology was discussed. Here we will continue this discussion, looking at bo...more

  118. More on Jung

    My last article dealt with Carl Jung, the famous analyst who developed a system that became one of the main rivals to Freud.more

  119. More on Neuroskeletal Re-alignment Therapy (NSRT)

    This is a follow-up to a recent expert column in Positive Health where Carole Preen discussed neuroskeletal re-alignment therapy (NSRT) and cited some case studies. In this article...more

  120. More Self-Harm than Self-Help? How to Survive Today's Guru Industry

    Since its origins in the 1970s, the self-help movement has become a global phenomenon touching the lives of millions. A Google search for ‘self-help advice’ now throws up approximat...more

  121. Morgellon: The 'M' Word You've Never Heard of and Lesions that Persist

    Morgellon. Never heard of it! Until I was forced to find my own cause, prevention and possible control of the terrible lesions and more that were affecting my body since 2007. They ...more

  122. Morphology and the Alexander Technique

    In Body Awareness, F Pierce Jones remarks that "...use determines functioning" might be considered "Alexander's law". The problem with the law thus stated is that it is incomplete ...more

  123. Moshe Feldenkrais

    What we wire into our nervous systems are not separate patterns of movement, thought, and feeling, but entire experiences. The self records the movements, thoughts, and feelings ...more

  124. Mother Nature's Best Remedies

    “Wholistic health represents an attitude toward wellbeing which recognizes that we are not just a collection of mechanical parts, but an integrated system which is physical, mental,...more

  125. Motivation and Personal Mastery

    In this column on Motivation and Personal Mastery, the author says many of us have problems in this area because of the tendency to move through life with a few goals and objective...more

  126. Moving and Stretching - Catalysts for Energetic Change

    In all movement lies the potential for the energetic changes that underpin life, health and effective functioning - our very existence. Some movement is not directly task orienta...more

  127. Moving Through Depression

    This author was diagnosed with depression at the age of forty. She felt that she had spent her adulthood lurching from one crisis to another, including a disastrous marriage and a ...more

  128. Moving Through Depression, Literally

    Maggie writes about a very personal journey from a major breakdown seven years ago. She tells of how repression of her real self was at the heart of her problems and how she has ov...more

  129. Moving Through Depression: A Few Steps Further

    Maggie Baker. A follow up to her previous article Moving Through Depression (issue 34).more

  130. Moving Towards Serenity

    The experience of finding a quick solution to a problem by looking at it from a slightly different viewpoint flashes through my mind every time a client or a friend complains abo...more

  131. Moving Voice... Authentic Voice Work

    This article focuses on authentic voice work which utilizes the innate power of the voice in combination with the body's energy system to bring about change, transformation and rel...more

  132. Moving Well: Laban Movement Therapy in Action

    Body movements provide an insight into the innermost feelings and way of life of a person. The Laban Movement is a system and language of observing, describing and notating all for...more

  133. MS Awareness – It’s Okay to Ask About Disability

    Liam stumbled into the toilets of a Richmond pub, using the walls, bannisters and every other protruding object along the way to support himself on the short journey. Once inside th...more

  134. Mud Therapy in Bulgaria

    The author gives a detailed account of the location and setting of the Tuzlata treatment centre and its mud spa. more

  135. Mudra Yoga

    Mudra Yoga, a system of alternative healing, has its origins as far back as the earliest Hindu scriptures and texts, and is employed in the practices of Dharma, Buddhism, Tantra an...more

  136. Multidimensional Realm of our Being

    There is nothing that our mind’s compass and radar cannot see, feel, perceive, or distinguish with its own molecules of thoughts, feelings, and emotions.more

  137. Multiple Sclerosis and Cranial Osteopathy

    In simplistic form Multiple Sclerosis is, according to the traditional medical diagnosis, a chronic breakdown of the myelin sheath surrounding the spinal cord causing calcification...more

  138. Muscle Energy Technique (MET)

    To understand the rationale behind MET it is first necessary to look at the mechanism that controls muscle tone. Sensory signals enter the cord via the sensory roots. After entering...more

  139. Muscle Energy Techniques (METs) Applied to Knee Pain

    An additional tool for the physical therapist's 'manual therapy toolbox', muscle energy techniques (METs) can help to release and relax muscles, and also stimulate the body's own h...more

  140. Muscle Tone Story

    The idea that many of us lack muscle tone is common, but in his column Carbonnel reveals that in fact most of us have more than enough of it. He explains that muscle tone is the pe...more

  141. Muscles of the Hip, Thigh, Leg and Foot - Extract Concise Book of Muscles

    This is an extract from The Concise Book of Muscles 3rd Edition by Chris Jarmey / John Sharkey. Lotus Publishing. 2015.more

  142. Mushroom Biomass: Some Clinical Implications of β-Glucans and Enzymes

    Mushrooms are widely appreciated all over the world for their nutritional value and medicinal properties. They have low fat, high protein and vitamin contents. Mushrooms contain sev...more

  143. Mushroom Combination Shown to Reduce Pathological Changes Associated with Parkinson’s Disease

    Two mushroom species – Hericium erinaceus and Coriolus versicolor – have been widely studied individually and in combination to assess their effects in ameliorating the pathological...more

  144. Mushroom Nutrition as a Disease Modifying Therapy for Neurodegenerative Conditions? Part IV-Neurogenic Reserve

    To date the development of a pharmaceutical solution to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) to reduce the increase of both Tau and β-Amyloid protein production has been disappointing.more

  145. Mushroom Nutrition: Prebiotic Implications for Neurodegenerative Conditions

    Over the past 10 years, there has been much research effort focused on trying to understand the role of mushroom nutrition in slowing the onset and progression of neurodegenerative ...more

  146. Music and Mental Health: Impact on the Elderly

    Just like us, the elderly can suffer from mental health problems, but we often forget about them because they are older, and we don’t usually see them as people who suffer from thin...more

  147. Music as Medicine

    For centuries people have believed there is a profound link between music and health, but is there any evidence to suggest that music can be therapeutic in more than just an allego...more

  148. Music for Relaxation and Massage and other Therapies

    Many of us ask ourselves how best to deal with excessive stress. One of the very effective options is with music, either on its own, in a relaxed environment, or as a complement to...more

  149. Music Maestro Please

    Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and declared: “One small step for man, one giant leap for humankind.” The first human footprint imprinted on the moon and will forever be a monumen...more

  150. Musings on Eczema

    Conventional medicine does not have a successful treatment for eczema and when she started using homeopathy, Dr Jones was delighted to have a tool that could be effective in trea...more

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