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Drawing on the Dao: A more Flexible Approach
In this column the author shares her experience on how the Daoist approach helped her with her disability (she had polio as a child) and what led her down this route. She focuses o...more
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The author explains that Daoist philosophy teaches us that happiness is to be found within; that the Heart is ‘the spiritual and emotional centre of the body’ and on the deepest le...more
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The gap between modern medicine, quantum physics and ancient forms of health care, is closing fast. The science of Dru Yoga plays an essential part in this journey of discovery, as...more
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Dub Leigh was interviewed at his hotel during his recent visit to the UK by Dione Hills, a researcher/bodyworkermore
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Massage is about movement, both within the client but also on the part of the practitioner. Effective movement and bodyuse by the massage therapist can be a key to good treatment, ...more
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Dyspepsia is a medical condition that an NHS survey has reported affects about 40% of the adult UK population. It is characterized by recurrent pain in the upper abdomen, heartburn,...more
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Eastern Approaches to Clinical Therapy
This article illustrates the value of Eastern approaches to treatment in cases where individuals have acted as 'gatekeepers' to restoring their own health through making informed c...more
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Fat has been a major issue for Richard Klein and his family for most of his life. This has been a negative as well as a positive factor. The fat we ponder serves to embody our hu...more
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Jane, aged 54, came to see me with a few minor health problems, and one major one of severe eczema, a chronic skin condition, which she had suffered from for most of her life.more
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A Research Update in this issue by Sherry et al (see page 42) relates the successful treatment in Sydney Australia of an intractable MRSA infection of the lower tibia of a 49-year ...more
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Unbelievably, I was recently emailed a Press Release with the heading "Millions at Risk from Vitamins Overdose". I thought that someone was deliberately winding me up; however, the...more
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Please read the inspiring story (see pages 42-43) of how David Longman's daughter Louise (now aged 21) was successfully treated and cured of a benign vascular tumour which had blig...more
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This July Issue of Positive Health (PH) has an overall healing theme, with lucid and inspiring features about Meditation (Chronicles of Samadhi), Reiki (Angelic Reiki – A New Heali...more
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The international research databases, clinicians' notes, health books and magazines abound with the excellent therapeutic progress being made with complementary therapies. To read ...more
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The notion that the individual, i.e. you or I, can make a difference to the world, has become familiar, yet sacred within the spiritual as well as the broader mainstream world.more
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In all the years since Positive Health (PH) has been established, one key area which has never ceased to astonish me has been the vastly differing areas of perception regarding div...more
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Hardly a week goes by without the print and broadcast media taking a swipe at Complementary Medicine, as if these techniques are completely bogus. PH was originally founded to refu...more
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During this transition period around the New Year 2009, the contents of the PH Online Jan Issue 154 provide us with substantive yet contemplative material upon which to reflect.more
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Even were we not now living through perhaps the greatest period of financial turmoil since the Great Depression, February is typically the time of the year when the high from all t...more
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As we publish PH Online May Issue 158, the world community is at a knife's edge, wondering whether the Swine Influenza Virus H1N1 will become a pandemic event, and if so, if this...more
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Many people, myself included, are a patchwork of being both mind (left brain)-oriented (live in their heads), as well as emotionally perceptive, sensitive and prone to mood swings....more
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This Positive Health PH Online Dec 2010 Issue 177 publishes, as is usual, Editorial features of outstanding originality, diversity and integrity encompassing the enormous spectrum ...more
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I recently listened to the very inspiring Inheritance Tracks of Peter Tatchell on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live who selected We Shall Overcome by Joan Baez and Imagine by John Lennon...more
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Several articles in this June 2011 Issue 183 of Positive Health PH Online describe how natural functions such as our breathing and voice have far-reaching effects upon our physical,...more
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How can one compare the seemingly more prosaic Integrated Medicine magazine with testosterone-powered revolution? Of course they inhabit totally different universes; however the new...more
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Deepak Chopra enunciates the self-evident yet profound truth (see interview page 27), that every diet works for some people, but that no diet works for everyone, since we are all u...more
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As we are poised on the brink of moving into the new year 2013, this Issue 202 of Positive Health PH Online similarly bridges many of the gaps which certain forces believe to separa...more
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Welcome to 2013 and the Feb Issue 203 of Positive Health PH Online - our 19th year of publication!!more
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Positive Health PH Online readers appreciate how, in healthcare as in all other endeavours, our treatment approaches are influenced by our worldview - our education, training, beli...more
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This is PH Online Issue 209 - yes 209 issues, 19+ - approaching 20 years - of Positive Health - the publication spanning the complete spectrum of mind [including spiritual] - body s...more
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I suppose that I behave like most other people when hit by a particular health problem. On the one hand, I am driven to discover the nature and diagnosis of the problem to satisfy ...more
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Positive Health PH Online has always placed an important emphasis upon the environmental impact upon our health, publishing numerous editorial features over the decades describing m...more
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Now in its 23rd year, Positive Health PH Online continues to publish articles and research pointing out how certain conventional treatment (drug-led) approaches are apparently being...more
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This issue of Positive Health carries an extended special feature regarding Nursing in Complementary Medicine, to acknowledge and honour the vanguard role that nurses are playing i...more
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As production with Positive Health PH Online Issue 242 was underway, it was announced on 2 Oct 2017 by The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet that the 2017 Nobel Prize for Phys...more
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When Positive Health PH Online Issue 247 was published on 14 June, I got involved with all the usual editorial activities to commence production with Issue 248 published 2 August. W...more
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It seems the notion that having a positive attitude toward the therapy you are currently receiving will enhance its therapeutic effect has become a perceived truism.more
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As we approach live publication of Positive Health PH Online Issue 257, I have become beset with, subjected to, even plagued by an extreme sense of malaise, stasis, emotional paraly...more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 268, published live 28 Jan 2021 embodies a holistic integration of treatment and clinical approaches to build individual optimum immunity and health....more
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As someone who has always strived for consensus rather than adversarial conflict, it has been my paramount goal regarding healthcare to bring together allopathic treatment with com...more
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Positive Health PH Online was launched in 1994 following a series of attempts to suppress natural treatments for cancer, as recounted in Issue 235:more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 271 is scheduled to be published live on 10 June 2021, merely 11 days before Stage 4 of the Road Map Recovery Plan – opening up and easing restricti...more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 274 published live on 21 Oct, sees the world at a pivotal moment, not only in the present tense, but also in long-term prospects of how Planet Earth ...more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 276, is published live 27 Jan 2022 at yet another pivotal and unfathomable point, both with regard to the coronavirus pandemic – perhaps becoming end...more
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Positive Health PH Online June Issue 279 is published live 9 June 2022. The destructive, apocalyptic war in Ukraine drags on, Covid-19 appears to be receding while Monkey Pox has ap...more
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There is a clichéd and outmoded notion that as we grow older we get more rigid in our beliefs and ways of viewing the world. As a teenager I enthusiastically embraced the slogan th...more
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Positive Health PH Online August Issue 280 is published live 28 July, in the midst of a Tory Leadership Contest to select a new UK Prime Minister to replace Boris Johnson. The war ...more
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Positive Health PH Online November Issue 282 is published live on 20 October. Memorable events have occurred since the publication of Issue 281. These include the death of the Sover...more
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Positive Health PH Online February Issue 284 is published live 26 January 2023. Many countries continue their descent into authoritarian rule; feeling powerless, we witness the brut...more
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Positive Health PH Online March Issue 285 is published live 9 March 2023. A myriad of political and topical issues are swirling around, including the Inquiry on the Manchester Arena...more
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Positive Health PH Online May Issue 286 is published 27 April 2023. The increasing spiral of tension and conflict across the world, perhaps greater than in any time since the 1950s ...more
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Positive Health PH Online June Issue 287 is published 8 June 2023. The worldview appears bleak, with serious conflicts raging in Europe – Russia’s war in Ukraine, Africa – warring S...more
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Positive Health PH Online August Issue 288 is published 27 July 2023. The big picture is not a happy one with the continuation of the war in Ukraine, escalating with Russia’s termin...more
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Positive Health PH Online September Issue 289 is published 7 September 2023. The international picture remains gloomy with the continuing war in Ukraine, as well as the death of the...more
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Positive Health PH Online November Issue 290 is published live 19 October. The unanticipated shock invasion and murder of >1300 Israelis – including babies, men and women of al...more
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Positive Health PH Online January 2024 Issue 291 is published live 7 December. The shock invasion and murder of 1200 Israelis on 7 October by Hamas and deaths of perhaps 15000 Pale...more
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Positive Health PH Online February 2024 Issue 292 is published live 25 January. I would genuinely prefer to welcome in the New Year 2024 with a joyful note; however, to be honest, I...more
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Positive Health PH Online March 2024 Issue 293 is published live 7 March. I have been inspired and transfixed viewing Channel 4’s Lost Temples of Cambodia. Archaeologist Pauline Car...more
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Positive Health PH Online May 2024 Issue 294 is published 25 April. The world outlook remains bleak, particularly following the recent explosive attack by Iran on Israel with hundre...more
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Positive Health PH Online June 2024 Issue 295 is published 6 June. The world outlook is definitely not positive – an understatement – with major continuing conflicts afflicting key ...more
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Positive Health PH Online August 2024 Issue 296 is published 25 July 2024. It is fiendishly difficult to predict the future when it comes to world events.more
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The successful emergence of Kamala Harris – as the first black and Asian-American woman to lead a major party's presidential ticket – as the Democratic Presidential Nominee in the U...more
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Positive Health PH Online November 2024 Issue 298 is published 17 October 2024. The world situation appears desperately bleak; how can we continue to live being hopeless?more
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The concept "you are responsible for creating your reality" has been around in various guises for ages. My father would say "the way you make your bed you will lie in it", and anot...more
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What attributes make for a good practitioner, and, perhaps, more importantly, which sort of practitioner is right for you and your particular health problem? These fundamental ques...more
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Where do you go to sort out your health problems? With such an incredible array of hugely diverse therapeutic approaches – from Healing, Reiki, Homoeopathy, Herbs, Nutrition, to Bo...more
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I sometimes fantasise (as I know many of us do) about what it would be like to live in another era, say before electricity, the car, radio, television, or the telephone. In fact, t...more
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The huge gulf which exists between natural-oriented therapies and people who follow more mainstream life practices never ceases to amaze me.more
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In a recent BBC2 documentary exploring the UK's poor cancer survival rate, members of a UK Parliamentary scientific select committee were seen visiting the USA's National Cancer In...more
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Many features herein concern healing - transformation, healing with music and meditation and healing from cancer.more
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Like many others, I used some of the so-called holiday period as an opportunity to catch up with big projects that I had been putting off due to the manic load of everyday work tas...more
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I am somewhat amazed, and exceedingly proud to announce that Positive Health is now 10 years old and about to enter its second decade of publication.more
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EEA / Kirlian photography and Colourpuncture
Kirlian photography shows the electromagnetic field surrounding the body. This is usually achieved by placing the finger and toe tips on a photographic unit and the energy emission...more
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In this highly referenced article, Dr Rosy Daniel, formerly Medical Director of Bristol Cancer Help Centre and currently Director of Health Creation, reviews research demonstrating ...more
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'Our main work is energy restructuring. We are like a general energy-medicine practice and we can help anything that affects the mind-body inter-relationship.' This was how Harry O...more
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Embracing the Yin, containing the feminine
My Taiji Master used to say “Women are naturally better than men at Taiji”. I used to think that he was merely flattering us women, as in fact he did not have many senior female ...more
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I see that I am often angry. I see that I experience much pain in my intimate relationships. I see that I am still isolated, lonely, and living in anxiety if not downright fear. ...more
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The real benefits of detoxification - feeling purified, light, free and full of energy - are only truly achievable if the bodily experience of fasting, juicing or food elimination ...more
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Concern is growing for the continuous increase in mental health disorders within the western world. Likewise, psychosomatic conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fati...more
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Emotional Transformation and Cellular Healing
Psycho-neuro-Immunology research has produced compelling evidence that our thought patterns directly and instantaneously affect our whole body chemistry, and can suppress our immun...more
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Empowerment Fitness: Revolutionary Mind-Body Programme
This article focuses on the positive effects of body movement. For centuries, high achieving individuals, including runners, walkers, cyclists and rowers, have understood that if ...more
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Energy Balancing with the e-Lybra 8 System
In this article which focuses on the e-Lybra 8 system – a technology that has spawned various offshoot products combining modern hi-tech products with Energy Medicine – the author ...more
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Energy Medicine Self-Healing Tools
Throughout history, people have created shapes and designs that can attract and channel energies, like the Great Pyramids of Egypt, beautiful patterned mazes, complex and compellin...more
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Energy of Life - Our Healing Process
What we are going to talk about today is the Energy of Life and how we can all take charge of our own energy and healing process, by clearing away all the luggage we carry along th...more
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Energy Psychology in Psychotherapy: Molecular Healing
In this article the author says research into the bio-energy arena is seeing that the human species could be regarded as "liquid crystal under tension, capable of vibrating at diff...more
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Enlightenment and the Real Matrix
This article focuses on true self-enlightenment. It questions how deep truths and messages from our awakened selves can possibly get through to us with so much spin and manipulativ...more
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Enneagram: The key to fulfilment
Do you believe that you know who you really are? Do your friends perceive you in the same way as you understand yourself? Have you ever been in an argument and realised afterward...more
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Esalen Massage: Deep Connections
Founded in 1962 by Michael Murphy and Richard Price to explore unrealized human potential, the Esalen Institute in California has consistently been at the forefront of new developm...more
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Essential Oil Recipes for Winter
Winter is the perfect time to stay indoors and keep warm. It’s the time of year when a cozy home is the only place you want to be on a wild Saturday night. The days are short, the n...more
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Extraordinary Healing Art that is Thai Massage
These days, one of the most popular - but often misunderstood healing modalities - is traditional Thai massage.more
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Fake Blow to CAM Use for Cancer
Did you hear that cancer patients who refuse conventional cancer treatment and opt for alternative medicine are twice as likely to die than patients who use only conventional treatm...more
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For me, authentic happiness is about being authentic. By being ourselves, we can allow the feelings of fear, shame, guilt, anger and all the other corroding emotions to be far more ...more
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FIRE: Fascinating, Friendly and Fearsome
I have written about the elements of Earth and Water in previous articles. Now I turn to the element of Fire.more
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Fitness Goals: How to Keep Yourself on Track
Starting something for those who aren’t easily motivated is hard enough. Sticking to that something can be even harder, particularly when the going gets tough. These simple tips ma...more
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The author, who lives in Zimbabwe, illustrates her thesis that a divine connection, diet and exercise, creativity and humour, how you talk and who you are with can all boost your s...more
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Flowers - the Essence of Consciousness
This article gives a detailed insight into the world of flower essences. The author is a clairvoyant healer and teacher who runs training courses on the chakra system and the auric...more
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Four Important Facts of the Yoga Profession
If you desire to commence on an incredible journey of becoming a yoga teacher then understand these four core facets of yoga profession through this article.more
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Beata Bishop is a psychotherapist who has to treat many patients who are suffering from wakeup calls in the form of unexpected redundancy, relationship break-ups, serious illnesses...more
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The author definitely writes this article from the heart, as prior to training as a Life Coach, she worked for the BBC 10 years as a Marketing Officer for the BBC.more
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Getting Lost (and Found) in the New Forest
At the request of a fellow psychotherapist and New Yorker (we grew up only a few miles from each other but met here in the UK recently!), who liked the way I used essences and other...more
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Giving Voice: Transformational Tool
The author reports the success of Giving Voice (GV) when used with people with addictions and survivors of childhood sexual abuse.more
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Planetary changes in the past several decades have become quite profound. In fact, it is very difficult to be human and not be aware of such changes anymore.more
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Golden Re - Healing, Development and Awareness Programme
Steve Gamblin is a practitioner and teacher of Golden Re Healing, a system of healing developed by Ray Abraham through his observation and understanding of nature and its working i...more
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Great Vagal Tone = Happy, Healthy You! Is it too good to be true?
You can create more by simply working on improving your vagal tone with easy daily beneficial lifestyle choices. It sounds fantastic and some of you may well be thinking that’s just...more
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…sound is such a powerful and effective tool for healing and rebalancing because it is so easily recognized and assimilated by the body on all levels. By taking a sound essence you...more
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Recapturing the long-forgotten wisdom of the ancient people of Hawaii, this type of bodywork has been practised in the healing temples by Kahuna Priests as a sacred rite of passage...more
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The author discusses how the unique properties of energy and water are so important to maintaining equilibrium and physical health.more
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In this article the author describes her own experiences of developing and combating breast cancer, drawing on her personal spiritual journey of discovery embracing different relig...more
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Healing Spaces - The Importance of Architecture in Healthcare
If we are ill, we know intuitively that a building can affect how we feel – and how well the practitioners around us do their work. But how might the built environment boost or und...more
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Throughout history healing methods based on the transfer of universal life force energy have always existed. Thousands of years ago, the Tibetans possessed a deep understanding of ...more
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Health Benefits of Horticultural Therapy
The concept of horticultural therapy is relatively new in the UK, but the curative effects of gardening on the mentally ill were realized in the USA as early as the 18th century, a...more
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Health Benefits of Infrared Saunas
Health consists of two basic elements: the physical, and the mental. The former is concerned with difficulties like pulled muscles or damaged bones, and the latter regards problems ...more
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Health Coaching: Creating and Sustaining Lasting Change in Patient Health
Today there exists a missing link in modern health care. Many patients/clients find it difficult to make and sustain health behaviour change. Consequently, the results that patients...more
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Dr Daniel started the three-year Healthy Bristol Integrated Medicine Project in April 2001, with the aim of making Complementary and Alternative medicine, Psychological Support Ser...more
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Healthy Eating According to Asian Wisdom
Jason Bussell begins by making the point that while obesity is a big problem in the west, the Asian body shape is thin. He ascribes this to the Asian diet, of which the overriding ...more
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Healthy Skin: Nature is the Best Doctor
When it comes to healthy skin, it is best to let nature lead the way, believes the author of this feature. He tells us that the plethora of chemicals that are found in conventional...more
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“When Sattva predominates, the light of wisdom shines through every gate of the body” (Ghagavad Gita 14:11). Beginning with this quotation, the article, based on Ayurvedic teaching...more
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High impact hypnosis is a new form of hypnosis. It is self-administered and gives the patient total control of the healing process.The key objective is to take away any resistance ...more
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Higher Consciousness Healing - Tara Springett and Personal Healing Symbols
In this interview, the author describes the spiritual journey of Tara (Ulli) Springett, German-born Psychotherapist. Tara was an unwanted and physically abused child of two very tr...more
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Put simply, histamine intolerance is when someone experiences various symptoms after consuming foods or drinks high in histamine or has exposure to environmental factors that cause ...more
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Holism or Dualism: East or West
According to the author, a Chinese medicine doctor, living and trained in China, sees no distinction between the mind and body but just a pattern of energetic disharmony when treat...more
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Holistic Approach to Infertility
The inability to conceive challenges the couple's emotional and physical health. To overcome their problem they will need to take into consideration the many facets of their fertil...more
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Holistic Approaches to Insomnia
There is only so much insomnia that one person can take. The moment that I decided to get the better of it a major insight occurred. I realised that for most of us it is a self est...more
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Holistic Benefits of a Retreat
In my work as a counsellor, multi-therapist and wellness/positive life change specialist and personal/spiritual development coach, I've become aware of increasing numbers of peop...more
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Holistic Journey to Health From Ground Zero
New York based writer Anastasia Ashman gives an account of how she witnessed the destruction of the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001, her subsequent descent into ill-hea...more
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Regular moderate exercise is well known to improve such conditions as obesity, diabetes and hypertension. Weight bearing and aerobic exercise can help osteoporosis and some cancers...more
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Holistic Retreats - Holidays for an Inner Journey
Sharon Black looks at holistic retreats that offer themed courses, designed to nurture the mind, body and spirit in tranquil surroundings. These are enjoying an increase in popular...more
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Holistic Wellbeing: Approaches To Coping With Anger
Anger management is about helping people understand the patterns of anger from their past, become aware of the triggers for their anger, and learn ways either to defuse anger, if...more
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Homeopathic Approaches to Infertility
Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive in a woman, or in the case of the man, the inability to induce conception.more
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Beth MacEoin is a professional homoeopath. She has written a number of books, some of which are Practical Homoeopathy, Homoeopathy for Women and Homoeopathy and the Menopause and al...more
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Homocysteine - Your Most Vital Statistic
Forget your blood pressure, your cholesterol, even your weight. There is one statistic that can determine better than any other, whether you will live long and healthy, or die youn...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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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 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 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 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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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 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 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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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