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  1. How to Unlearn Your Pain

    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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Hypnotherapy for Health

    Erickson is my starting point in hypnotherapy, and a constant reference point as well, but I am not he, and have developed induction techniques and psychotherapeutic approaches tha...more

  7. I Cured My Cancer

    Jennie Trisnan shares her life transforming experience with breast cancer which started in 1996 with an itch on her thigh and breast. After several mammograms and biopsies she was ...more

  8. Icelandic Flower Essences - Raising our Awareness

    This author shares the power of the flower essences found in Iceland's unique unpolluted and unspoiled nature.more

  9. Illumination Therapy

    Personal transformation is the process of individual change that results from an increased level of perceptive awareness.more

  10. Immunity and the Mind: Finding our Way Through Challenge and Crisis

    Immunity is the body's defence against illness and disease. When under attack it seeks to provide resistance to all manner of pathogens that harm the body's natural state of balance...more

  11. Implications of Molecules in Emotion

    In nearly three decades of working in the area of wellness I have never found one health discipline that has all the answers for healing. The reason is that there are so many ind...more

  12. Inherent Weaknesses

    This article illustrates how an inherent weakness to stress can cause a multitude of seemingly unrelated symptoms. It relates how a teacher in her twenties had suffered from practi...more

  13. Integrated Medicine - Philosophy and Clinical Practice

    This article focuses on Integrated Medicine,  which the author says, is the Medicine of the New Millennium that is here to stay, but still not easy to define as there is no univers...more

  14. Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Coronavirus COVID-19

    The Coronavirus (COVID 19) was born late December 2019 into humans, during the cold damp Winter of Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province China. This nasty, new-born cousin of th...more

  15. Integrative Healing - Practical Guide to Professionalism

    In an effort to establish some common ground this are the working definitions for the term: Alternative, Complementary and Integrative. Please understand that these are broad genera...more

  16. Intentionality in Alternative Medicine

    Representatives of Western medicine consider ethnomedicine (i.e., alternative medicine) to be anecdotal and unproven which gives the words ‘anecdotal’ and ‘unproven’ a new meanin...more

  17. Interview with Indian Yoga Teacher Sukumar Shetty

    Interviewed by Marjolein Wolf Sukumar Shetty is 40 years old and lives in Samse, a small village in Karnataka, South-India. He was educated at the Vivekenanda Kendra, which is loca...more

  18. Introduction to Aqua Tai-Chi

    The Author developed the Aqua Tai-Chi system of exercises in 1986, which combines Tai-Chi with other Chi Kung/Taoist exercises, after recognizing the importance of the feeling of b...more

  19. Intuition, Our Wise Guide

    These days, we are often distracted by and overloaded with stimuli from our environment, thus neglecting our inner voice, or intuition. Yet a combination of logic and intuition can...more

  20. Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a common condition in which the large intestine fails to function correctly. In fact, it is so common that it represents 30-50% of all referrals t...more

  21. Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): Holistic Treatment Approach

    It is estimated that nearly a quarter of the UK population suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (also known as irritable colon syndrome or spastic colon), but nobody really knows b...more

  22. Is Laughter Really the Best Medicine?

    Laughter yoga was invented by Dr Madan Kataria. As he was writing his article Laughter the best medicine for a health magazine he decided to try out the techniques inspired by Norma...more

  23. jin shin jyutsu

    JIN SHIN JYUTSU® is an ancient Japanese art of harmonising life energy within the body. It is a physio-philosophy that involves the application of hands on energy locks (points) of...more

  24. Journey - Molecular Biology via Organic Germanium, Vitamin C, Cancer to Positive Health – Interview of Dr S Goodman by Dr Carl Helvie

    This extensive interview was originally broadcast live 17 June 2017 on BBS Radio Holistic Health Showmore

  25. Journey and Survival through Mantle Cell Lymphoma Part II

    In Part 1 of this article (Positive Health PH Online Issue 224 August 2015) I gave a very brief overview of the complementary therapies and supplements I used during my treatment fo...more

  26. Just How Have Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdowns Damaged Our Immune Systems

    With lockdown restrictions now significantly relaxed, wider mixing and living with COVID-19, are our immune systems primed and fit? Immune health has been on the tip of most people’...more

  27. Kalarippayat: The Martial Art of Kerala, South India

    Kalarippayat, the ancient martial art of South India, is based on the science of Yoga for its forms and exercises, and its medical treatments are based on the science of Ayurveda.<...more

  28. Karma World and Yoga of Healing

    Thoughts can engender healing, yet a lot of thought component is hardly within our reach to handle and create. Thoughts owe their existence to opportunities, and the opportunities a...more

  29. Ki Treatment: Healing with Sound and Touch

    This article focuses on Ki/Chi energy flow along the body’s meridians and energy channels, its philosophy and origins, what it is and how it works as a treatment. more

  30. Kundalini Yoga: Powerful, Transformational and Healing

    This article focuses on the benefits of Kundalini Yoga. The author explains what Kundalini yoga is all about and how it works at the physical, mental and spiritual levels.  She a...more

  31. Letters to the Editor Issue 115

    Obituary: Michael Gearin-Tosh: 16 January 1940-29 July 2005 + Have You Recovered From CFS?  + European Food Supplement Ban Avoided By Mutual Cooperation  + Study: Beta Blockers Don...more

  32. Letters to the Editor Issue 173

    Stop Nuking the Cancers + Letter sent to Age of Autismmore

  33. Letters to the Editor Issue 194

    Obesity, Gastric Surgery, Brain Scans and Harm + The Swiss Government's Exceedingly Positive Report on Homeopathic Medicine + The Press and the Public Hoodwinked by Recent Red Meat ...more

  34. Letters to the Editor Issue 220

    Report Highlights Rising Global Cost Of Cancer Treatment And Care + It 'CAM' and Should Be a Part + The Cancer Act of 1939 - Outdated + Essiac Tea - Cancer Truth + The Disney Measle...more

  35. Letters to the Editor Issue 225

    What’s Happening to the NHP Lawsuit Against Health Canada? + One Foot in the Grave when I found Dr Sircus + Coconut Oil - Miracle Wonder Food or 'Sat Fat' Nightmare?more

  36. Letters to the Editor Issue 236

    Dietary Magnesium Associated with Reduced Risk of Heart Disease, Stroke and Type-2 Diabetes + Controversial Vaginal Mesh and Graft No More Effective than Standard Repair for Female ...more

  37. Letters to the Editor Issue 281

    Increase in Non-COVID-19 Respiratory Infections Predicted this Winter + In Fine Print: Study Sheds Light on Mechanisms Driving 1,2-Dichloropropane-Induced Cancer in the Printing Ind...more

  38. Letters to the Editor Issue 60

    Complementary Cults + Light Therapy for PMS + Response from Jo George + Progesterone and PMS + Internet Site Helpful + Comments re Dr Pheby's ME articlemore

  39. Letters to the Editor Issue 74

    Yoga Not a Threat to Christianity + To Kaisa – Life, Love and Complementary Health Care + Placebo Effect + Seeking Parkinson's Volunteers + Nick Carter DO, MBRA, FSMTO 15.10.37 – 9...more

  40. Life By Design - An Aesthetic Therapy

    Dr Salter believes that the function of therapy often is to find an aesthetic design within our experiences – and this leads to the idea that as we may re-cast the story of our pas...more

  41. Light – Luscious, Luminous, Life-Giving

    Dusk was drawing in as I finished the meditation. I put my hands over my closed eyes and suddenly it seemed as if the sun had come out from behind the clouds. I took them away to ch...more

  42. Light and Colour for Optimum Health

    Over the last ten years, following a history of poor health, Kathleen Ginn has studied light and colour and has reaped their benefits for health and well-being. She is a lecturer a...more

  43. Listening with the Heart

    Vivienne Silver-Leigh, from her experiences of counselling training, shares some important lessons about active listening, a skill needed to understand and develop our relationship...more

  44. Live an Ayurveda Lifestyle – Meditate, Ayurvedic Treatments and Sleep

    Ayurveda can be referred to as the Science of Life (Ayur = life, Veda = science or knowledge). It’s a health system, but it’s also a way of life. Living an Ayurveda lifestyle means...more

  45. Living A Good Life with my Incurable Cancer

    Four months ago I was happy and pretty complacent: a healthy, active omnivore with an allotment, home-baked bread and minimal processed foods. I did regular yoga, walked my children...more

  46. Living Mindfully

    Insight Meditation, also known as 'Vipassana meditation' centres around our conscious engagement with the breath. Its roots are in Buddhist teachings which have been circulating fo...more

  47. Living Positively With Cancer

    In this article the author (she writes a regular column for Positive Health magazine) shares her journey with breast cancer which she has lived with for 25 years.more

  48. Living the Life you Dream: Part II: A Quantum Perspective on Choosing Your Thoughts to Change Your Life

    Learning to love yourself is no easy task when you have been listening to voices telling you that you are no good. If you have been the 'victim' of such a tirade of insults either f...more

  49. Living Well in Old Age

    My father in law is now 87 and rapidly ageing. A month ago he could walk around town; two weeks ago he had a fall and since then has weakened and can hardly walk around his flat. Th...more

  50. Living with Adversity of Surviving Benign Brain Tumour

    I was born a healthy baby but at 8 months old I was ill for a few weeks with flu-like symptoms. Soon afterwards, while I was attempting to crawl and then walk, it was noticed that I...more

  51. Living with Multiple Sclerosis and Treatment Approaches

    In this article on Multiple Sclerosis (MS), the MS Society reveals that about 85,000 people in the UK suffer from this condition and that every week around 50 more people in the co...more

  52. Lomi Lomi - Ka Huna Massage

    This healing system is derived from the ancient Polynesian methods of restoring balance to the body, mind and soul (Huna). Through this treatment of the physical body, powerful hea...more

  53. Longest Living Lung Cancer Survivor Used Natural Interventions

    Have you ever thought about how you would feel if your doctor told you that you had cancer? And what questions you would ask him/her at that time? And what information would be help...more

  54. Looking After Yourself with Trager Mentastics

    Trager is based on following “the undulating curvature of a wave....Mentastic movements create wave-like shimmering that resonate through the body and have a loosening and lighteni...more

  55. Love Your Lungs The Ayurveda Way

    In Ayurveda certain parts of the body are associated with a particular element. Lungs in Ayurveda hold a memory of the air element, associated with a Vata dosha - the energy of move...more

  56. Macrophage Polarization and IDO Enzymes, Immunity, Cancer and Depression

    The subject of macrophage polarization has many practical applications in treating immune dysfunction in diseases like cancer, diabetes, chronic fatigue, AIDS, sepsis and any diseas...more

  57. Make up your Mind

    The author looks into the process of right decision making by attending a workshop on Discernment. She watches her own choosing mechanism in action, and also how other people make ...more

  58. Making the Most of Your Purpose: A Transpersonal Approach to Moving On

    A resident notion within us makes us feel like we have nowhere to go when we are feeling tired, exhausted or out of sorts. We often make it feel like we are to blame for many of our...more

  59. Manifesting Your Dreams: The Art of Wish-Practice

    Ulli is a Buddhist meditation teacher who has been an accredited psychotherapist and life coach for 15 years. She explains her technique of wish-practice by distinguishing it from ...more

  60. Mantak Chia - A Modern Taoist Master

    Famous for his books on cultivating male and female sexuality, Mantak Chia is probably the most quoted, misquoted and plagiarised of writers on esoteric sex. Less well known is his...more

  61. 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

  62. 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

  63. 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

  64. 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

  65. 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

  66. 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

  67. 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

  68. Meditation - Antidote to Stress

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

  69. 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

  70. 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

  71. 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

  72. 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

  73. 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

  74. 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

  75. 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

  76. 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

  77. 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

  78. 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

  79. 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

  80. 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

  81. 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

  82. 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

  83. 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

  84. 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

  85. 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

  86. 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

  87. 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

  88. 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

  89. 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

  90. 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

  91. 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

  92. 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

  93. 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

  94. 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

  95. 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

  96. 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

  97. 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

  98. My China Experience (Part Two)

    My China story continues (see Positive Health January/ February 1997 for Part One). Let me recap very briefly before continuing. I went to China last year for a month to immerse my...more

  99. My Life-Enhancement Journey Coping with Fibromyalgia

    I have endured chronic pain for as long as I can remember. In school, it was brushed off as “growing pains” because doctors couldn’t find the root of the cause. Later, it was a “wea...more

  100. My So-Called (Past) Life

    I wanted to be Cleopatra or at least Catherine the Great, but it turned out I was just another little Jewish girl in my past life. I was also a teenage boy in knickers and a cave-d...more

  101. Mystic Mantra: There’s More to Tears than Meets the Eye

    The more powerful the “tear-jerking” plot, visage, or story, the better the liberating upshot. The precept that tears have healing outcomes emerged aeons ago. The philosopher Aristo...more

  102. Mystical Gardens of Bellenau

    Vivienne Silver-Leigh shares her experiences of Chateau Bellenau in Normandy, which has been restored over the past three years to provide a peaceful and magical setting for transf...more

  103. Natural Approaches for an Overactive Thyroid: A Personal Story

    The author of this article, Kath Clements, shares her personal story of dealing with hyperthyroidism, a condition in which the thyroid gland becomes overactive and consequently the...more

  104. Natural Health Holidays in Sunny Spain

    Jan Williamson, a complementary health practitioner from Exeter in Devon, coordinates health care holidays in Southern Spain where this naturopathic approach can be taken even furt...more

  105. Natural HRT: Herbal and Ayurveda Approach

    Dr Nancy Lonsdorf MD looks at the way in which Ayurveda acknowledges menopause as a natural transition – a concept that has only been recently considered by the medical community. ...more

  106. Natural Nutraceuticals Rather Than Pharmaceuticals

    The author studied pharmacy and medicine at university, and spent several years working for major pharmaceutical companies, helping clients to attain the quality standards required...more

  107. Naturopathic Osteopathy

    In 1874 Andrew Taylor Still brought osteopathy into the world. At that time the work of Pasteur and Lister was unknown, and many patients who survived the crude surgery that was ...more

  108. Naturopathy: Conscious Way to Whole Health

    In this article, Naturopath Accem Scott describes his approach to the practice of Naturopathy and his path to developing that approach, drawing on his own experiences and using a n...more

  109. Never Move From Where You Already Are

    The meditation instructions that I give are very simple. I ask people to relax as much as they can, to be as at ease and as free from tension as possible and at the same time I w...more

  110. New Reality Creation:  A Neurobiological & Quantum Field Perspective

    “The truth of the matter is that Joe's work is all about consciousness. He would pray to the God of abundance and allow himself to be taken forward by forces bigger than himself. So...more

  111. Noise - Turn Down the Volume of Daily Life

    This article focuses on the true power of silence and how we can tune out all the noise that we are surrounded with on a daily basis. It also looks at why the world has become so...more

  112. Not Superhuman After All

    In this article the author, a broadcast journalist, shares her personal experience with Glandular Fever, which in her case was caused by seriously overworked adrenal glands due to ...more

  113. Nothing New Under The Sun

    Dr James Mennel, Head of the Department of Massage at St Thomas’ Hospital (London) early in the last century, first brought out his book on massage in 1934. In this, her first colu...more

  114. Nutrition and Life-style Guidelines for People with Cancer

    The significance of nutritional and life-style guidelines for people with cancer is examined in this consensus document.more

  115. Nutrition and Naturopathy: Stress Management

    The author goes into some detail about the physiology of stress and the wide range of negative physical and emotional consequences which can develop.  She suggests that as stress...more

  116. Nutritional help for Chronic Fatigue Sufferers

    Patients who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are often so exhausted that they are unable to undertake half of their daily normal activities.more

  117. Nutritional Therapists: Food Police or Food Educators?

    The representation of nutritionists as 'food police' is an obstacle that the author highlights we must overcome. Another obstacle when following diets can be a low mood, stemming f...more

  118. Oases of Calm

    This article focuses on the importance of quiet time, especially in today’s environment where the levels of stress we experience create problems such as headaches, skin irritations...more

  119. Obesity and the Link between Metabolic Disorders

    The weight loss industry has been booming for decades, with over $20 billion spent annually on diets and weight loss products in America alone. I distinguish between weight loss and...more

  120. Of Body, Brain and Placebo Effect

    While most theories on human nature were based on conscious experience, the cascading impact of new scientific thought has pigeonholed them as pre-scientific hearsay, or folk psycho...more

  121. OH Cards: The Game of Inner Vision

    OH cards can be used in a variety of ways. Their power lies in the ability to tap into the unconscious and perhaps bring to the surface buried feelings and emotions. They can be ...more

  122. On The Warriors Path - A Revolution in Personal Development

    I was born into an environment of male inadequacy. It had existed before I was born and by the time I arrived the atmosphere was thick with a rage and hate that was to permeate ever...more

  123. Optimum Exercise and Fitness Regimes to Enhance Weight Loss

    The old adage of calories in versus calories out although true in principle, has been refined somewhat in recent years. It’s true of course that your energy intake (EI) in relation ...more

  124. Our Innate Ability to Heal Ourselves

    To many people, illness is something that comes from 'out there', brought about by external factors – environment (pollution, pesticides, germs, etc.), lifestyle (smoking, diet, al...more

  125. Our Many Selves

    Transpersonal Psychotherapist Vivienne Silver-Leigh looks at the different models of the self, stressing the importance of maintaining contact with our higher nature through some f...more

  126. Our Role in Personal Transformation and Healing

    It is important to realize that when we learn to heal ourselves, we are not limited merely to changing our own realities; the world reality is also ours to change.more

  127. Our Secret Potential

    I've always been fascinated by what humans can accomplish and intrigued by what we term miracles. I remember, as a teenager, wondering how one could possibly compose such wonderful ...more

  128. Pain - Relationship Between Body and Psyche

    Sue Green looks into many aspects of pain and the different ways in which it can be viewed. Pain can be a signal that something is out of balance, for example pain can be a sign ...more

  129. Panchakarma and Ayurvedic Massage

    Ayurveda offers a variety of healing therapies that nurture, balance and heal the mind and body. Ayurveda's most powerful method of rejuvenation and purification for the mind and b...more

  130. Patients can do Much to Manage their Autoimmunity through Diet and Lifestyle Strategies

    Autoimmune conditions represent a significant public health concern, affecting a substantial number of individuals globally. According to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases A...more

  131. Physical and Spiritual Transformation - Principles of Aikido

    This article provides a detailed account of Aikido; its history, principles and purpose, which is summed up in the statement ‘To injure your opponent is to injure yourself’, and ...more

  132. Poetry for Health and Healing

    After a heart quadruple bypass operation in 1999, for poet and novelist Steve Jaffes, something magical started happening one day as he was writing the journal in which he vented a...more

  133. Polarity Therapy

    Polarity Therapy was developed by Dr Randolph Stone in the USA from 1945 to 1973. He integrated his knowledge of osteopathy, chiropractic and naturopathy with an understanding of e...more

  134. Positive Health of Mind and Body

    The author illustrates what she calls the “universal natural law that whatever we do in this life will eventually come back in exactly the same proportions” by relating the story o...more

  135. Practical Ayurveda - Sattvic Qualities for a Healthy Mind and Body

    Ayurveda, the Indian traditional medicine and 'science of life' is becoming more widely known outside of India and recognized as a truly holistic means of health care.more

  136. Practical Meditation

    Meditation has been used for thousands of years, in many different ways and in cultures across the globe. It is thought primarily to be an Eastern practice as a means to finding sp...more

  137. Practitioners Must State The Case For Complementary and Alternative Medicine

    This is an urgent call to all practitioners to state the case for complementary and alternative medicine.  The view accepted and promoted by the media is that because CAM lacks the...more

  138. Prana and Wellbeing

    The concept that everything in nature is permeated by energy, was fundamental to the philosophies of ancient civilisations such as China, Japan and India, and remains so today. The...more

  139. Prana for Health - No Touch Energy Healing

    In this article the authors discuss the benefits of pranic healing, a no drug, no touch therapy, which is easy to learn and open to everyone. It resulted from over thirty years of ...more

  140. Pratima - Female Spiritual Teacher

    Pratima was born as Michele Mumford in Liverpool in 1952 to two University Professors. She was brought up in England and received her B.A. Hons. in Philosophy and Comparative Relig...more

  141. Primordial Sound Meditation

    Primordial Sound Meditation is a mantra meditation that was developed by Dr Deepak Chopra from an ancient tradition.more

  142. Profound Effect of Macrobiotic Diet upon Psoriasis and Stress-Related Skin Conditions

    This Case Study by Philippa Brook shows how following a macrobiotic diet can have dramatic effects on the body, both internally and externally.more

  143. Psychocreative Fasting and The Art of Inner Medicine

    It isn’t everyone who will prescribe a fast for a person with PMT, diabetes, a bad heart, or cancer, still less perhaps someone with an eating disorder. Most people will tend to th...more

  144. Raining Cats and Dogs - How Pets can Improve your Mental Health

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