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Homoeopathic Dog's Milk for PMT
Jane had always had premenstrual problems. As a teenager, she had been very tired and moody for a few days prior to her period; natural enough in an adolescent. However, after he...more
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Homoeopathy - a practical alternative
Homoeopathic treatment is all about treating the individual person rather than symptoms of illness in isolation.more
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One of the problems with being a homeopath is that, so often, patients approach you as a last resort. By the time they reach your door, they have explored many avenues both convent...more
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From teething babies to teenagers complaining of their zits there is a homeopathic remedy for practically every health problem met in childhood.more
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Homoeopathy: Working with Charities
Most people working in complementary or alternative medicine experience a degree of envy when they think of the enormous resources that are available to practitioners of convention...more
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Hope by definition is an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation of positive outcomes related to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large.more
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Hope is that quality of character which carries us through the worst moments of a crisis. It wells up, as though from some deep reservoir, when a cruel and unbearable world seems to...more
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If you are one of the millions of women or men who struggle with their hormonal health, then you probably feel that your hormones fall into the ‘tricky little blighters’ category. T...more
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Over the past 18 months I have been consulted by more and more clients suffering from hormonal imbalances. These include premenstrual tension, menopausal symptoms, infertility and ...more
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Hormones 101 What's Happening with Hormones
Hormones have a lot of control over our bodies and it’s absolutely necessary to know as much as you can about them. You might have heard about oestrogen, testosterone and cortisol, ...more
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How a Homeopath Selects a Remedy
Turning the clock back 33 years ago and as a mother who was blessed with two young boys, the eldest aged 6 and the youngest just six months, I was at a point in my life, as any mot...more
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It is important that all health carers, those who take responsibility for other peoples’ health, understand the basic principles of immunity because, by far, most forms of ill-healt...more
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This feature looks at how diagnoses are made and how much faith we should place in them. The author points out that two people who seem to be suffering from the same set of sympto...more
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How Aloe Vera Has Helped My General Health and Well-being
The author had suffered from childhood with dry and sensitive skin, diagnosed as eczema/dermatitis, as well as niggling health problems such as mouth ulcers and cold sores. She had...more
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How Can Complementary Therapists Make a Living?
This article gives some insight into the approaches that a newly qualified complementary therapist can take in getting established in their chosen career and making a decent living...more
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How can this be used as evidence?
Simon did not feel well. He found it difficult to describe, to explain or quantify; he just did not feel well. He had felt like this on and off for almost as long as he could remem...more
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How Can We Better Support Our Brain Health?
One of the troubling concerns of modern living is the fact that there appears to be a steady gentle decline in IQ levels since the 1970s. It would seem that the growth in the use of...more
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How CBD Can Be a Path to a Healthy Life
All humans strive for a healthy lifestyle, but not many come close to it. The recent coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need for a balanced lifestyle that gives health priori...more
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How Children on the Autistic Spectrum are Helped with Homeopathy
Over 23 years ago when I first qualified as a homeopath I began writing small informative articles that were published in a newspaper known as The Commuter. One of the articles tha...more
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How Colleges are Improving Support for Students with Additional Needs
There are a number of reasons why a child or young person may require extra support with their learning in college or university, including disabilities or learning difficulties, al...more
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How COVID-19 has Impacted Complementary Therapists
As a Director of one of the leading Professional Associations in the UK (Complementary Health Professionals), this year has been a challenge; what with working hard to keep our memb...more
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How Effective is Neem as Treatment Against Parasites?
This is a topic that people don't want to talk about it! You will be disgusted looking through a magnifying glass at the variety of parasite worms in your body. Nine of out ten peop...more
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How Effective is Physiotherapy to Reduce Chronic Pain?
You may treat chronic pain or long term pain efficiently using physical therapy. You may rectify any injury to a large extent by using this method. It can help you move and feel be...more
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How Emotional Eating and other Behaviours get in the Way of Weight Loss
A couple months ago, I headed out the door to take my small dog for a walk. But about a block from my house, I slipped on some loose dirt and fell down hard on the sidewalk. Althoug...more
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How Exercise Can Help your Digestive System
The role of the digestive system is to break down (or digest) our food, eliminate toxins and absorb the energy and other key nutrients our bodies need to function well. But it’s imp...more
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How Exercise Helps Balance Hormones
Hormones serve as the messengers in our bodies to catalyze different chemical reactions in the brain and body. Exercise has a huge impact on how our hormones work and can ultimately...more
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How Expressive Writing Can Improve Your Mental Health
Self-expression, no matter what form it may take, is liberating. It takes us away from the demands and stressors of our daily grinds and moves us into a more positive mental state. ...more
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How Healthcare Technology can be Utilized to help People Remain Independent for Longer
It is now well documented and understood that our population would like to remain independent for longer, with 97% of people stating that they’d like to receive care in their own ho...more
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How Heavy Metals Affect Neurotransmitters Production and Balance
The article discusses the range of conditions which appear to be the result of heavy metal toxicity, which begins in the womb, as the foetus’ developing neural systems and brain co...more
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How Homeopaths Select Cough Remedies
Over the years I have been practising I have dealt with a number of consultations and telephone calls from anxious parents who have asked ‘can you help with my child’s cough?’ Adul...more
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How Homeopathy Can Help During Pregnancy
When you have been looking forward to having children and the tests confirm that you are pregnant you will find yourself delving into a wide range of books covering pregnancy in ord...more
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How Homeopathy can help to Promote Healing of Sports/Dance Injuries
One of my favourite hobbies is salsa dancing. My husband and I took up salsa dancing 7 years ago and it has changed the course of our life by introducing us to a great way of keep...more
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How Homeopathy can help with Arthritis, Rheumatism and Fibromyalgia
So many times in conversation I have heard people complaining about how the damp or cold winter months can have an affect on their arthritic, rheumatic or muscular pains; it is quit...more
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How Homeopathy can Help you Deal with Stress
The author explains about the types of stimuli which can generate the body’s stress responses, and the effects which these can have on the body. The secretion of hormones such as a...more
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How Hypnosis Helps With Stress in our Personal and Business Lives
Let’s look at how we usually experience stress. We have information, in various forms. These include our memories of what has happened to us in the past, our knowledge of what has h...more
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How I Cured Myself of Fibromyalgia – and How You Can Too
I wasn’t your typical 23year old student at university. I had a healthy diet, didn’t drink, went to the gym four times a week, yet out of nowhere I was struck suddenly by a long lis...more
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How I Healed my Skin through Juicing Raw Fruit, Veg and Exercise
A study published in the Archives Of Dermatology suggests:[1] 350 Britons each year commit suicide because of psoriasis; 10,400 develop depression; 7,100 are diagnosed...more
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Go with the Flow
2012 might be remembered as the year of the damp squib ‘Mayan Apocalypse’ - the end times that never happened.more
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How I Met Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho)
This is an account of the author’s spiritual journey, as well as of a real-world journey to Rishikesh, a spiritual centre in the Himalayas.more
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How I Transformed My Life and Reversed my Diabetes through Nutrition and Diet
Across the United States, around 29 million people suffer from diabetes, and another 8 million are thought to still be undiagnosed. Modern medicine tells us that there’s no cure for...more
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How I Turned the Worst Year of My Life Around
The sun is shining brightly in through the open patio doors warming me as I breastfeed our youngest daughter. The paramedic talking to me is the third to arrive at our house in 30 ...more
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We are all familiar with honey bees but do you really know how important they are for sustaining life of human beings?more
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How Meditation Is Changing With The Times
Far reaching changes brought about by recent advances in technology and science have created fundamental shifts in the way meditation is perceived and practised. The enlightened age...more
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How Meditation Transformed My Life
This article focuses on the power of meditation. The author shares how and why she got into meditation as well as its positive effect on her. She describes her initial experience...more
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To a Mézièrist, the primary cause of musculo-skeletal disorders is the departure from a normal, healthy body shape caused by the hypertonicity and shortening of some groups of musc...more
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How Multiple Allergies can Devastate our Lives or Make Them Healthier - Emma's Story
Emma was a restless and overactive baby from the day she was born. Often screaming, unable to sleep and in discomfort from severe digestive problems, we tried everything to get her ...more
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How Music Has The Power To Heal What Ails You
“Music treats the soul, and If you treat your soul the body will ultimately positively react,” says D. Kenny Davin Fine MD, a gastroenterologist who is also creator of Oro-Intestina...more
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How my Life has been Transformed by the FlexxiCore Challenger
I am a 52 years old Mouth and Foot Painting Artist, infamous for Mark Quinn’s Trafalgar Square, Fourth Plinth statue, depicting me as disabled, pregnant and naked. As a child born ...more
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How Obesity is Impacting the Pandemic: An Evidence-Based Guide
The pandemic continues to affect our lives – perhaps now more than ever. “Pandemic stress” is a real thing, and it can lead to a wide array of both mental and physical health issu...more
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How Organic Principles will Inform Future Food Production
There has been a great deal of disparaging copy concerning organically grown food in recent years. The tone has become more vitriolic as the popularity of organics has grown and, as...more
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How Our Beliefs Affect Our Lives
Unlike animals, humans compulsively make meaning of our experiences. When we have attached the same meaning to a repeated experience a number of times, meaning becomes belief. Thes...more
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How Our Own Personal Space Impacts On Our World
In this article the author explores the inter-relationship between personal and professional development of the therapist and the presenting client base. He provides a synopsis of ...more
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How Pilates Helps to Boost Immunity and Wellbeing
Famous for improving posture, joint mobility and core stability, can we can add to the list of benefits better health and immunity? The answer is a resounding ‘yes’. In addition to ...more
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How Probiotics May Stop Stomach Pains, Alleviate Oesophagus Problems and Control Stomach Acid[1]
The author points out that Pasteur, the discoverer of bacteria that cause disease, was a bit of a rock star of his time, while the Russian scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1908...more
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Much attention has been paid to identification of a single unifying mechanism that underpins the working of homeopathy. This prospect seems unlikely because of the wide range of pro...more
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How Reflexology can Support those Living with Dementia
For decades dementia has been on the increase due to a burgeoning ageing population and is now one of the greatest pressures on healthcare systems around the world.more
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This article traces the history of Reflexology which evolved (and is still evolving) from the ancient technique of acupressure introduced to the Chinese. The surviving source of al...more
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How Rothbarts Foot Leads to Poor Posture and Chronic Pain
Postural distortions (poor posture) have been linked to chronic muscle and joint pain by many authors. However, the cause of the postural distortions is still highly debated with m...more
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How Running can Improve your Mental Health
We’re all well-aware that the aerobic exercise provided by running is a great boon for your physical health, but it’s perhaps less widely known that running has been proven to have ...more
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How Scary Concepts Can Affect Health
You might be questioning why an article on fearful ideas would be relevant to health? What relevance does what I am fearful about have to do with my health? Isn’t health all abou...more
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How Schools are Identifying and Combating Toxic Stress
With the intensity of the tests increasing each year, it’s safe to say that the levels of stress are on the rise for these young minds too. But is this stress a natural motivator, o...more
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How Seasonal Change and Time Changes Mess With our Brains
As we learned in school at a young age, the longest and shortest days of daylight come each June and December – with the extremes of darkness and daylight of these Winter and Summer...more
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How Sleep Surfaces Affect Our Backs
There are approximately three million beds and mattresses sold in the UK and almost a third of them are purchased in order to provide relief from back pain. However, many of these ...more
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How Sustainable is Orthodox Healthcare?
This article looks at how sustainable our healthcare system is, and questions what is being done with the 8.1% of our GDP that we spend on healthcare here in the UK. The author, ...more
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How Technology is Changing the Way we Run - and Motivating us to Exercise More
In recent decades, running has experienced a slow-motion explosion in popularity, becoming the most popular form of exercise in the world. In the US alone, 19 million people complet...more
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How the Right Pillow Can Relieve Neck and Back Pain: Tips for Better Sleep and Health
If you’re reading this, you’re likely one of the millions struggling with neck and back pain. Neck and back pain are pervasive ailments that affect up to 80% of the population at so...more
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How to Address and Prevent Repetitive Strain Injuries of the Body and Eyes
RSIs are also known as overuse or cumulative trauma syndromes, and they are caused by a myriad of actions performed during daily work and leisure activities. The inflammation, numb...more
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In his column this month Sheldon Litt discusses some of the techniques that he has found to help people become more creative. He outlines some of the major obstacles to creativity...more
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How to Become a Miracle-Maker with your Life - Steps to Use the Almighty Ho’oponopono
Ho’oponopono is a very old tool, which in its modern version, is based on some valuable principles such as: repentance, forgiveness, love and gratefulness. The term "Ho'oponopono" i...more
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How to Bring About Personal Transformation
In nature, business, life and almost everywhere change happens in distinct and predictable cycles, yet when it comes to our own personal development people seem to strive for a sta...more
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How to Choose the Healthiest Juices for Your Lifestyle
Although a select few may still find the time (and have the energy) to forage through woodlands and over dales in the quest for their five-a-day, unfortunately that is not the case ...more
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How to Choose your Hypnotherapist
Having trained in hypnotherapy in the 1990s I made the foolish mistake of assuming that everyone knew or knows what hypnotherapy is and what job the hypnotherapist does. I was bro...more
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How to Combat Fatigue when Working Night Shifts
Working night shifts can cause havoc for your sleeping pattern, as unsociable hours often mean sleeping during the day to prepare you for work at night. To help people manage their ...more
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HOW do you define your emotional level? Are you aware that it is a function of your personality? If you perform all your duties and responsibilities starting from wake up to retir...more
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How to Cope with Chronic Pain: Tips for Overcoming Injury and Pain
A major injury can be life-changing. It can take months to years to recover from injury, and some people never return to their former ability.more
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How to Cope with the Stress of City Living
You navigate rush hour to play that cosy game of sardines on the train every morning. You dodge the tourist that’s standing on the wrong side on the escalator, and if you stop to c...more
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How to Create a Healthy Living Space
Although we often regard our homes as a safe haven from the dangers of the outside world, the indoor environment presents its own hazards in the form of toxic pollutants and other ...more
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How to Detoxify from Mercury Amalgam Fillings
Since Roman times cilantro (the other name is coriander) has been used as food and medicine. A study by DrYoshiaki Omura from the Heart Disease Research Foundation, New York, NY ha...more
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How to Develop Healthy Lifestyle Habits While in Recovery
It’s pretty amazing how great you begin to feel once you have completed detox and rehab. You are pumped to begin a new life in recovery, one that is productive and active, and cente...more
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How to Discover your Greatest Self and Get the Relationship you Desire
The idea of discovering yourself is a bit bizarre, but if you think about it, it would make sense to know yourself really well when in the pursuit of a new relationship. This is be...more
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How to Educate Yourself on Eye Health Risks
Can you think about the last time you went to the eye doctor for a normal check-up? Most of us visit the eye doctor thinking we need glasses or contact lenses. But there’s more than...more
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How To Find a Qualified, Competent Practitioner
This article addresses the some of challenges presented to patients and practitioners, including: how, as a patient, you can find your way through the maze of qualifications and ti...more
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How to Find Your ‘Mojo’ and Keep It!
When we have our ‘MoJo’ with us we can feel we have a connection with an innate kind of ‘magic’ within us. Children have it!more
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How To Follow An Ayurvedic Diet For Weight Loss
Those who are facing weight issues find it difficult to shed pounds. But with Ayurveda, the process can be done in a much-effective and safer manner. Explore the blog and learn how ...more
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How to Fuel Your Immune System to Beat Cancer
It is well known that a whole foods diet and nutritional support is essential to prevent and beat cancer and give the strength required to tolerate cancer treatments.more
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How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep
The Dalai Lama once said, “sleep is the best meditation”, and with proven benefits on both physical and mental wellbeing, the importance of a solid night’s rest really is incomparab...more
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How to Hack your Inner Discipline and Motivation
Discipline… motivation… If you’re into the whole self-development thing, odds are that you’ve already heard a few ‘clichés’ about the two concepts. Maybe you’ve read about why it’s ...more
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How to Handle Loneliness when Loneliness is on the Increase
Loneliness is on the increase, and isn’t just related to the elderly. And the reasons behind the rise in loneliness, is actually really interesting. In this article, Harley Street t...more
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Good digestive (gut) health is the cornerstone of our immune system, helping to fend off illnesses and help us thrive. It will come as no surprise, then, that looking after our guts...more
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How to Help People With Dementia
If a loved one is suffering from Dementia, it can be difficult to manage emotionally for you and the person affected. There are plenty of ways that you can not only help your loved ...more
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How to Increase Healthy Sleep and Reduce Stress
People with chronic sleep disorders affect people on many physiological levels including sleep issues often leaving them feeling tired, frustrated and cranky.more
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How to Increase Your Energy Naturally
Shocking survey results have revealed that three-quarters of the city-dwelling population in the UK are suffering from low energy and waking up tired as a result of a high intake o...more
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How to Integrate Cycling into your Everyday Life
Cycling isn’t a pursuit that just needs to be undertaken by those with aspirations to one day compete in the Tour de France or as a sole means to get fit; getting on your bike and p...more
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How to Keep Your Medical Treatment Areas Free from Dirt with Tacky Mats
Medical treatment rooms can be a nightmare to keep clean. Between patients, medical staff and support workers, there can be a near-constant stream of people coming and going, but yo...more
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How to Live Well with Chronic Illness
...the doctor walks in and greets you. Something about the doctor’s demeanour tells that you’re not about to receive good news. And you’re right. You are told that you have an incur...more
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How to Lower High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure (hypertension) affects more than one in four adults in the UK,[1] increasing their risk of serious conditions including heart attack and stroke. One of the bigge...more
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How to Maintain Glucose Levels
Almost all dieters have an underlying blood sugar imbalance. Blood sugar can be the most important factor in losing and maintaining a healthy weight. The importance of correcting b...more
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How to Make 2018 Your Best Year Yet: Tips From a Life Coach
A new year is often viewed as a chance for a fresh start. Once a long, drawn-out January is over and you head in to the spring, reality sets in and motivation slowly dwindles. The c...more
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How to Make Anxiety Your Best Ally
In this article Harley Street therapist Christopher Paul Jones talks about how anxiety doesn't have to be the enemy, and if reframed in a more positive way it can actually become yo...more
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Having trouble deciding to write about this month Dr Litt decided to write about making decisions. Perfectionism and a fear of taking risks are both important motivations for not ...more
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How to Optimize Your Health with Mindfulness
While mindfulness is a recent trend, the practice has been around for centuries. It is a practice that encourages individuals to be aware of their thoughts and feelings in the prese...more
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How to Overcome the Four Challenges to Marketing Disease-Specific Medical Nutrition
With the increasing number of medical nutrition solutions for the treatment and prevention of chronic diseases like diabetes, sarcopenia, HIV and obesity comes a new set of marketin...more
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How to Pick the Best Mattress for Back Pain
We are not powerless against back pain. It can be alleviated or even prevented with one simple thing: how we sleep. Unfortunately, the reverse is also true. Some aches can be aggrav...more
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How to Prepare for Severe Wet Weather
As experts predict severe weather conditions and flooding will hit the UK this winter, it is naturally a concerning time for home and business owners, especially those based in high...more
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How To Prevent High Blood Pressure
The typical image of a person with high blood pressure (hypertension) is an overweight, overworked male executive with a very short fuse. The truth is, high blood pressure affects p...more
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How to Protect Your Hearing in Seven Simple Steps
Earlier this year, the World Health Organisation warned that over 1 billion risk permanent hearing loss from loud sounds. For most, the idea of losing our hearing is very worrying –...more
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The author began going bald at the age of 14 and then lost all her body hair as well. It was not until 30 years later, when she was training to be a kinesiologist that she found th...more
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How to Seamlessly Integrate Mindfulness into your Daily Routines
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How to Sit with Sciatica – A Comprehensive Guide
Sciatica, a condition characterized by pain radiating along the path of the sciatic nerve, can cause significant discomfort and affect a person's daily activities. One of the most ...more
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At one time or another, everyone will wake up with neck pain. The first thing most people say is “I must have slept on it wrong” and this could very well be the case. However, if yo...more
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As I write, in September, a brochure has just arrived in the post emblazoned Christmas Gifts. OK, some of it’s proper forward planning, but we do seem to need something to look forw...more
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How to Smooth the Transition from a Walker to a Wheelchair
In case the elderly are facing increasing difficulties with using a walker, it may be time to consider a wheelchair. Wheelchairs offer improved stability and mobility compared to wa...more
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How to Spot the Signs of Different Conditions
There are a variety of conditions and illnesses which can prove very detrimental to our health. However, many have telltale signs that can be detected early to either stop the proce...more
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How to Stay Healthy at Your Desk
In today’s society, the pressure of sitting at a desk all day is taking its toll on our bodies and our mental health. Stress, backache, tiredness and low energy are all common issue...more
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How to Stop Anxiety Spoiling Your Life
Caroline Carr is a Hypnotherapist and Life Coach. She writes in a hugely practical and pragmatic way, stating that not only is anxiety fine in small doses; in fact, we all need t...more
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How to Successfully Achieve Inner Goals
My Vision is to guide you to empower yourself to successfully achieve your Goal, and for you to be experiencing your immeasurable potential. As you read and absorb what I say my ho...more
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How to Successfully and Permanently Achieve Inner Goals Part 2: Two of the Five Practical Steps
Today we are going to explore and begin to Work with the first two practical steps, to successfully and permanently achieve your goal; the next three of these five steps we will ex...more
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How to Survive a Family Holiday
The author provides a very helpful set of rules for a holiday that won’t be perfect, but has some chance of being enjoyable! Among these are sharing planning and responsibilities. ...more
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Some people always feel sad and try to remain aloof. Most of their time, they get influenced by negative thoughts. In the midst of any positive environment, they find nooks and see ...more
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How to Transform Despair into Harmony
For most of us, the world is where we live - yet, the fact is it is sometimes beyond our comprehension, especially when we are ‘under the weather’. Depression affects each of us, so...more
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How to Treat and Avoid Low Back Pain
Low back pain is the most common symptom presented to a GP in the UK. According to recent figures from the Office for National Statistics, almost 31 million days of work are lost ev...more
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Sleep apnoea is a serious disorder which stops people’s breathing every few seconds during sleep and impacts between three and six per cent of the world’s adult population. It is ...more
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Dr. Schubiner explains that much chronic pain is a result, not of structural disease processes in the body, but by ‘learned nerve pathways.’ (He makes it clear that he does not wor...more
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Magnesium deficiencies are present in healthy populations[1] thus it behoves every healthcare practitioner and doctor to become fully familiar with how to use magnesium oil, which i...more
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How to use Natural Progesterone
First, we must be clear about what is meant by 'natural progesterone'. There are, of course, a large number of plants containing progesterone-like compounds just as a large number ...more
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Regular contributor Joël Carbonnel takes a look at walking and the positive effects it has. It keeps the bones strong, boosts the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, controls b...more
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Don’t sweat the small stuff is a common adage. The fact is – small, or little, things upset us greatly. They disturb our life’s tempo and trigger stress. Studies show that your hea...more
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How we can Best Prepare for and Cope with Norovirus
Norovirus. It’s a word that dominates the headlines every winter and drives fear into people across the country. The illness - literally and metaphorically-– makes people sick to th...more
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How We Can Empower Ourselves to Strengthen our Bodies and Minds
The value of clever choices, listening to our bodies and self-care is highlighted by new Deep Relief report and research. Over the last few years there has been a crucial shift in ...more
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How We Should Practise Medicine
The basis of all complementary modalities is to take the whole patient into account rather than named conditions they are suffering from such as asthma, eczema and diabetes; yet we...more
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How will Care Homes Look in Years to Come?
People across the globe are beginning to live for longer. While this is great news for the overall health of the world’s population, it does also mean that individual requirements r...more
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How Yoga Can Help Reduce Stress
Stress is one of the leading causes of health problems in the United States, and it can be tough to find a way to manage it. Yoga has been shown to be an effective way to reduce str...more
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How Yoga Can Prevent Arthritis
Yoga can help reduce pain that occurs from having arthritis. It helps you to become more flexible also and improves the body’s functioning. Stress is also reduced which can be a con...more
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How Yoga Practice Aids Many Age-Related Illnesses in Older Adults
The statistics around ageing can sound quite grim when you put them altogether. Over 25% of seniors over 65 years of age will develop diabetes according to the American Diabetes Ass...more
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An experiment was done years back at a TV show taping where men dressed all in black with ski masks burst into the audience shooting at random attendees. Gunshots were heard and cha...more
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Human Beings in the Mirror of the Universe
Both soul and ego live side-by-side in one body, encompass spirit and will lead to an ultimate destination. When used separately one will bring suffering and the other joy. When liv...more
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In the last issue of PH (31), we looked at a paradigm of different types of human relations based on the Gestalt Therapy method of Frederick "Fritz" Perls (1893-1970). The first tw...more
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Gestalt therapy carries an existential message about human relationships. Perls' epigrammatic statement of his ethic of interaction is contained in this little verse: I do my thing...more
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The author of this short article, a psychotherapist who works along Jungian and transpersonal lines, gives a brief insight into the causes and negative effects of CatEx, or catas...more
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Hydration is the Key to Spine Health; How to Keep your Back Hydrated and Healthy
Drinking plenty of water is good for our general health and well-being. Doctors and fitness experts have been telling us this for decades. But how many of us ever consider that a l...more
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From time to time you may have seen a product which seems to bear a variety of names such as hydrolat, hydrosol, floral water, distillate, and aromatic water, to name but a few and...more
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Hydrosols - Aqueous Distillate of Essential Oils
The author of this article is a fully qualified aromatherapy practitioner, educator, researcher and author who, through her Canadian company Acqua Vita imports organic, wild and au...more
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Hydrotherapy for a comfortable bath
The body's physiological response to water makes hydrotherapy the perfect accompaniment to all stages of pregnancy – in preparing the circulatory, neurological and musculo-skeletal...more
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HypnoBirthing(r) - Preparing The Mind-Body For Birth
In this article the author provides some insight into the Morgan method of HypnoBirthing®, which has been growing in popularity across the globe since its inception in 1989. She ...more
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A phobia is an ‘irrational’ fear. A person suffering from a phobia will experience an exaggerated fear response akin to a panic attack when confronted by a particular entity or situ...more
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Your own natural healing response is a rich system of mind-body communication which you can tap into during hypnosis while benefiting from therapeutic suggestions. That is why ther...more
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Hypnosis in Musculoskeletal Medicine
Usually lecturing or writing under this title I have to define and explain hypnosis, a daunting task under any circumstances.more
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Hypnosis, Healing and Intuition
Your mind can help you recover from illness and bring about a state of wellbeing. Clinical Hypnosis will enable you to get in touch with the resources within the deeper part of you...more
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Hypnosis: Symptomatic Trances of Everyday Life
A trance state is one in which our normal awareness of the outside world is reduced while our attention is focused on a particular idea, problem, fantasy or physical stimulus.more
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Hypnotherapy and Efficacy - Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Irritable Bowel Syndrome seems be related to, and/or exacerbated by, stress, tension and anxiety rather than resulting from some pathological disorder.more