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What Makes a Good Work-Life Balance?
Getting the balance right between work and family time can be difficult. And in today’s busy society, it can be difficult to take the time to reassess lifestyles.more
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What Neuroscience Teaches Us About Nurturing You and Your Brain as You Age
I’ve spent the last three decades as a brain scientist on the front lines of revolutionary work in understanding what happens to the brain as an organ as it faces ageing and other v...more
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This article focuses on the neck, its structure, function and treatment. Our neck, the author explains, is a relatively stiff but fidgety structure: it moves about 600 times an hou...more
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What Therapists Need from a Professional Association - An Aromatherapy Perspective
It is really important that therapists understand what they should get in return for their hard-earned subscriptions and, in turn, how they can influence the professional associati...more
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What to Do if You Think You've been Misdiagnosed
For many of us, we trust our doctor to make the right call. After all, that is what they are trained to do. But what happens if a mistake is made?more
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What to Expect from a Hearing Test
You may have been to a couple dozen medical professionals throughout your years – whether it’s for your eyes, bones, stomach, etc. As familiar as you might be with these procedures,...more
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What to Say and Not to Say to People who have Cancer
Finding out that someone you know has cancer can be upsetting and sometimes a shock to the system and it is often hard to know how to react. From the cancer patients point of view...more
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Clinical psychologist Dorothy Rowe, well known for her work on depression and her many books on the subject, explores our fears about ill health and dying.more
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What will it be like Returning to Work after Lockdown?
Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on the complementary therapy industry and it is particularly hard when you are a self-employed sole trader. As a result, the question all compl...more
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What You Need to Know about Physiotherapy and Sports Physiotherapy
Do you know someone who had lost the use of their arms and legs after they have suffered from a stroke? Or someone whose limbs or other parts of the body had been injured so that th...more
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What You Should Know About Eczema
Eczema is besides acne and psoriasis one of the leading skin disease and is a non-contagious skin condition that can be present in several different forms, but most common forms in...more
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What You Should Know About Neem Oil
The legendary miraculous medicinal Neem tree in India has grown with the human settlement all over the country and has been an integral part of the Indian way of life for centuries....more
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What You Sow in your Mind You Reap
The best thing we’d all do, in the turbulent times that we now live in, is to cultivate our mind with a reflective sense of ‘attached detachment’ and vice versa. In other words, we ...more
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What Your (Bad) Breath Reveals About Your Health
Some of us have the unfortunate problem of sitting downwind from a co-worker whose breath brings tears to your eyes. Our first question is “Don’t they realize that their breath is...more
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Who here hasn't asked, "What's next?" We're seeing our insular financial, healthcare, spiritual and political environments white-knuckling the outdated ways while newer ideas are e...more
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One of the confusing elements surrounding the field of psychology is the concept of 'normal'. People ask themselves and others, "Am I normal? Are you normal?" The popular press has...more
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The problem of normality in the field of psychology is a complicated one, diffused as it is with theories of health. The difficulty is that each practitioner has his own notion of ...more
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What’s Lockdown Gut to do With It? – the Gut Stuff
Even as we are emerging out of lockdown, a lot of us are going to continue to spend more time at home than ever before – and this adjustment to a new way of life is likely to have t...more
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What’s Really in Your Healthy Breakfast?
If there’s one thing nagging mothers the world over have always been right about, it’s that breakfast truly is one of the most important meals of the day. Not only does it provide y...more
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Wheat - Staff of Life or Pain in the Gut?
Today wheat based foods comprise a huge part of our average daily fare and in some circles, going wheat free is mistakenly branded as a ‘fad’ diet. Personally I think the average ju...more
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This is a continuation of the series. When All Else Fails to Heal You. Part I can be found at www.positivehealth.com/article/mind-matters/when-all-else-fails-to-heal-you-part-1more
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When All Else Fails to Heal You… Part I
If you’re dealing with symptoms that no one can diagnose, much less treat effectively, maybe there’s someplace else you’ve yet to look.more
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When Did You Last Check Your Values?
This column focuses on the importance of Personal Values, how it differs from Beliefs and how to use them to decide what’s important for you. The author says our values define wh...more
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When Emotions Overtake Rational Thinking
Does displaying how you feel count more than engaging in rational thinking? Rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) has been around for a while and, for those who need some balanc...more
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Regular contributor Linda Lazarides looks at the problem of poor digestion. It is possible to lose the evolutionary ability to tolerate food and many people become so ill when they...more
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When I Started Writing, Now I Finish – 20 Years With Positive Health
For two remarkable decades, Gina Pickersgill has been a dedicated contributor to Positive Health Magazine, sharing a wealth of wisdom on holistic well-being, emotional health, perso...more
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Asking questions, for some reason, is very difficult for most people. The problem is we either feel we do not have the right to question, after all we do not want to insult the pers...more
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When is it Time to Replace your Mattress?
We spend roughly one third of their lives in bed, so it’s no surprise that the quality of the bed can affect both the sleeper’s health and happiness.more
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When It's Not Going to Get Better - Redefining Success and 'Failure'
The medical conference concerned the fate of a ‘younger disabled’ patient – a formerly healthy young woman who, for reasons no one could figure out, had deteriorated, over the years...more
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In this column the author discusses our dependency on electricity, following a sudden power cut in her area. What would it be like, she wondered, if - as is happening in many part...more
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There are circuits in the brain that signal our emotions, all right. They have the capacity to seamlessly connect with the type of attention you require to take the right decision. ...more
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When the Immune System Attacks
This article summarizes thoughts about auto-immune disorders, and their apparently rising prevalence, especially in more developed countries, in cooler latitudes. It explains the d...more
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When Vaccine Refusal is Not Unethical
There is an entrenched herd mentality and groupthink phenomenon on the issue of the morality of vaccination refusal by those who scratch the surface of the issue that requires a sp...more
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The author describes the research and findings of the dentist Dr Weston Price, who identified a correlation between dental health and physical health, noting that chronic and deg...more
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Which is Better: Heat or Ice for a Pinched Nerve?
You’ve probably used heat or ice before on a sprain or a sore muscle. But, if you have a pinched nerve, you know it’s a different feeling than a sprain or strain. So, you may be won...more
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In my last article I focused on homeopathy and mental health. I would like to further explore how homeopathy can help those people who are caring for others whether it be those with...more
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If you had to sit down to reinvent the wheel I bet you would end up with a round thing, not a square. It's elementary – round wheels work, square ones don't. Well, to be honest I'v...more
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Who Treats the Therapist? - A Therapeutic Journey
The author looks into the workings of therapists in general, their insecurities, uncertainties and belief systems, and how they can break some of these modes.more
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Who You Were Born to Be: How to trust yourself and gain the key to happiness
Many of us suffer from indecision about what we want or need. What we do not realize is that the things which will make us truly happy are those things that bring us new challenges ...more
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Beata Bishop highlights a major theme in today’s world – the blame culture, and from her own observations of society and in her psychotherapy practice she illustrates how blaming h...more
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Whole Body Energy Awareness as a Way to Better Health
Kitai ('whole body energy awareness') is a way of developing a detailed perception of the energetic interactions between you and your environment. Each area of the body is capable ...more
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Whole Meridian Massage Therapy
This article focuses on Traditional Chinese Medicine body massage and the meridians, the route to promoting better blood and energy circulation and overall communication between th...more
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Wholistic Integrated Approach to Health
In this feature, Vivienne Silver-Leigh looks at brain respiration. The courses the author has experienced consist of exercises, meditation, healing, Chi Gung and Yoga breathing. Ce...more
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The author uses the word 'wholistic' to provide a single alternative to the many meanings of holistic and integrative care. He settles for the treatment of body, mind and spirit in...more
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Everyone has their own opinion about the effectiveness of complementary therapies. As a practitioner of complementary therapies I have to make choices and evaluate the therapies th...more
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Why Alcohol-free Spirits are the Emperor’s New Clothes
Zero alcohol beverages have been growing in popularity over the past few years. Research from the 2021 Lumina Intelligence Low2No Alcohol Report (published June 2021) shows that 30%...more
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Why are we Told Only Half the Story about HRT and Dementia?
Feeling like you are losing your memory at midlife can be very scary, especially if you think it’s a permanent situation. Many women secretly wonder if these ‘senior moments’ are th...more
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Why Bother being a Member of a Professional Association?
Ever since I first qualified in complementary therapies way back in 1993 (massage therapy was my first qualification), I have belonged to a professional association and have done so...more
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Why Buy Chemical-Free Cosmetics and Personal Care Products?
Everyone hopes to have a perfect body but, unfortunately no matter what we do, our bodies never seems to be perfect. Are nose or breast to large or too small? Is the skin too dry or...more
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The media reminds us frequently that obesity is on the rise as is the incidence of Type 2 diabetes, generally the two often go hand in hand. Certainly, abundant processed foods, de...more
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Why Can’t I Work Out What’s Wrong With Me?
So many of us have multiple symptoms that seem to be dissociated. Visits to the doctor yield referrals to different consultants each giving tests and diagnoses within their own spe...more
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Why develop degrees in Complementary Therapies?
By September 1998 at least ten Universities in the UK were enrolling students in degrees on Complementary Therapies. Some of the universities were offering places on up to six diff...more
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Why Do Some Therapists Make it in Business and Others Do Not?
This is a question me and Joyce were discussing recently as we have both been tutors in aromatherapy and massage over the last few decades.more
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Western and Chinese medicine have radically different views about how we become ill. In Western medicine, for example, the notion that the emotional life of the person plays a sign...more
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Why Do You Feel Fat After Losing Weight?
This article looks at why people still feel fat after losing weight; why yo-yo dieting is so prevalent; and whether anorexics are really being honest in their heart of hearts whe...more
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Why Dreadful Things Take Place in Nice Peoples Lives
This brief article is a mythical allegory about universal truths from a particular perspective, with resonances with the Old Testament concept that it is man’s pursuit of knowledge...more
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Why is Natural Healthcare So at Risk?
The author, Executive Director of the Alliance for Natural Health, writes about the EU as the single source of legislation most likely to inhibit the practice of natural healthcare...more
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Why is Seaweed and Salt Better than Salt Alone?
Salt is about 60% chloride and 40% sodium. Depending on the source, there is at most a few percent variation, with unprocessed sea salt, or ‘rock’ salt mined from land which was onc...more
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I'm at a party in New York. There's a lull in the conversation. A young woman next to me smiles with evil intent and asks – "Why do you psychologists think sex is so important?" I ...more
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Why it's Hard to Change your Thinking
There are libraries of books encouraging people to understand themselves better; providing useful insights into various aspects of human behaviour. Given this abundance of knowledg...more
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Why Medicine Won’t Allow Cancer to Be Cured
Imagine a commercial plane crashed and there were some fatalities involved. You can be sure that would make the headline of every major newspaper. Well, we have the equivalent of 8-...more
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Why our Body is Often Under More Stress after the Birth than during Pregnancy
It goes without saying that we pay attention to the health of a mother while she is pregnant, but it is also important to consider the time after childbirth. Postpartum, the body is...more
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A flood of documents has appeared in the last nine months from various organisations . . . Their message to complementary therapists is simple; regulate, research and integrate or ...more
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As we enter this hazardous age of 'Integration' (with a capital I) there's a great deal of ambivalence about what it might imply. We may be less alternative than we were, but wisel...more
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Why Use Invisalign to Fix Adult Crooked Teeth
If you are an adult who wants to straighten their crooked teeth, there are several options that you can consider. There are metal braces and ceramic braces but the most popular opt...more
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Why We are not Free to be Free to be Our Self - How We can Be
A friend, who is a lovely woman and a caring intelligent mother, (but her dog is thoroughly daft!) said to me: “Therapists always want to blame your childhood for mind-emotional p...more
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Why We Should Change the Way We Breathe
We all breathe. It’s the first thing we do, and the last thing. And everything in between. As babies, we are born perfect breathers. Just think of a baby, and visualize how it takes...more
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Why Women Footballers are Being Let Down by their Boots
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries are serious for anyone, but for professional footballers, damaging the main knee stabilising ligament could keep them from playing for mont...more
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In this column, the author touches on his experiences in the US as a psychiatric psychotherapist, and his discovery of the WHEE (Wholistic Hybrid) method of treatment, combining EM...more
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Why You Should Add Yoga into your Everyday Routine
We now live in a world where self-care, health and wellbeing are being prioritized, and actually, are actively encouraged – which is something that we haven’t seen until recent year...more
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Why you should Forget a Low-Carb Diet when you’re Training Regularly
We’ve all heard people talking about ‘cutting carbs’ when they’re trying to lose weight, but it’s not always the best way to improve your health. Carbohydrates are important energy...more
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Win the Fight Against ME/CFS by Doing Nothing
We are constantly told that, no matter what is wrong with us, exercise will do us good. Wrong: According to the February 2015 IOM report Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue...more
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Feng Shui literally means Wind and Water – its teachings call us to live in harmony with our environment. Recognising the cycles of change in nature and our relationship with the e...more
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Winning Big without Performance Enhancing Drugs ‘Beyond the Zone’
A-Rod MLB, Lance Armstrong UCI, David Ortiz MLB, Manny Ramirez MLB, Brandon Moore NFL, Von Miller NFL, German biathlete Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle IOC, Italian bobsledder William Frull...more
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Winter is a season of flux. When the first chilly mornings arrive and the nights grow longer than the days, we have a tendency to turn inward and hibernate. But this season can be ...more
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Winter Coughs and Influenza – a Homeopathic Approach
I trust that all of you reading this article will have enjoyed the Christmas and New Year festivities. However, I do know that at this time of year with the unpredictable changes th...more
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Wired Grandeur – Fixing the Faulty Gene
Our memories in the future may emerge in the form of a pill — a pill that expands our ‘normal’ memory. Such a pill, ‘in the works,’ has already been used in patients with memory los...more
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This article sets out the case for a return to the ancient tradition of wise women healers. She reminds us that “as far back as the 1600s, elite, university-trained doctors sought ...more
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Vivienne Silver-Leigh offers encouragement to those of us who feel that when we retire and become senior citizens our lives are more or less over. With the exception of those who s...more
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With Birth Carpe Diem - Seize the Day
Children do not think about time in the same way as older folks. They are too busy playing games and chatting with their friends. They grow into adults who gain responsibilities and...more
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It is so foul, in my opinion, the sound of this word Woke when applied as a noun or as an adjective. Its ugliness describes perfectly the modern perversion of denying the meaning a...more
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Women - Why do they put up with abuse?
Although I have worked as a psychotherapist for more than 30 years, I must admit that there are many things about women that I just don't understand. Many of my patients are women ...more
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Women and Herbs - The Art of Artemis
In this column the author touches on the various myths and legends behind the relationship between women and the moon and their connection to fertility and the Greek goddess Artemi...more
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Women and Herbs - The Art of Artemis
In this column the author touches on the various myths and legends behind the relationship between women and the moon and their connection to fertility and the Greek goddess Artemi...more
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Women Finding Peace of Mind on their Fertility Journey
‘Daddy, Daddy tell me it again!’ My friends’ son excitedly asked to hear the story again. I was feeling fine until I heard those words. Suddenly I felt sick, overwhelmed by a fear t...more
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Women Sleep Worse Than Men – 4 Ways You Can Combat Insomnia Right Now
The differing health needs of women are becoming more widely recognised. From adjusting our food intake around our menstrual cycle to our differing hormones, a lot of areas of our h...more
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Women’s Health: a Case for Letting Nature take its Course
Women are everywhere. They comprise approximately 50% of the planet’s population. You may be one yourself or you may be married to one; you will certainly have one as a mother and ...more
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Words that Can Heal in Turbulent Times
our attention is compelled by negative emotions; fear, anger, envy and rage. We know our media is controlled by billionaires and our politics is controlled by the banks and big cor...more
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Work and Leisure without Backache
Misuse is the primary cause of backache, and it doesn't go away as long as we don't earnestly tackle this problem of use. The first prerequisite to work and play without backache is...more
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Working as a Doctor and as a Healer
Doctor and healer, Daniel Benor tells the story of his path from sceptical orthodox medicine to becoming a practitioner of spiritual healing.more
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Working as a Pharmacist and a Healer
For over twenty years now, I have been on a path of learning about relieving suffering in its various forms. It was only when I started practising in a community environment that I...more
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Working on Clients with Long-Covid
COVID-19 is going to be with us a long time and people are still being infected with it daily. I had it for the second time three weeks ago. The vaccination is supposed to help prev...more
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Working with Feelings and Emotions, Colour and Images; Integration of Techniques
A feeling is just that: an emotion is what happens when a belief is linking to a feeling. Inviting the client to describe a feeling, and say what the words are that go with it can ...more
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Working with Sound and Flower Essences in Combination
Essential to our nature, sound gives us a sense of space, depth, and form. Like colour, it adds richness to life and our world, and a feeling of interconnectedness with others and t...more
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Working with the Body's Energy to Remove Self-Sabotaging Beliefs
Beginning with the story of Laura who, by using the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), was able to transform her fearful thoughts about her upcoming chemotherapy into pleasant musi...more
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Working With the Healing Properties of Inflammation
I have worked with an osteopathic approach to treating patients for the best part of 40 years. In the last 25 I have used homotoxicology alongside osteopathy. This has added a new d...more
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Joel Carbonnel gets into yawning – a contagious, communicable, infectious practice, quickly affecting others. He also looks into the art of this gesture and what triggers it.more
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Master Tam is a qualified Master of both Taoist and Tibetan Tantric spirituality and healing. Yi Dao Reiki is the first part of a secret knowledge that he wishes to restore to the ...more
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The author describes the true meaning of Yoga and its eightfold approach, according to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Sandilya-Upanishad of Antharvanaveda. These paths incl...more
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Yoga and Ayurveda for Headaches and Migraines
According to Aled Francis, a Manipulative Physiotherapist from the Sydney Headache Clinic, treatment has traditionally focused on identifying certain features such as the frequen...more
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Yoga and Ayurveda for Reducing High Blood Pressure
This article focuses on specific Ayurvedic and yoga remedies for high blood pressure. The author explains what causes high blood pressure, how to recognize if you have it and what ...more
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Yoga and Ayurveda in Daily Life are Good for Health
Everyone aims to have positive physical and mental well being but it becomes difficult to achieve them in our stressful and fast paced lives. People are opting for yoga and Ayurveda...more
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Yoga and Breathing Exercises for Asthma
Much emphasis is placed upon environmental factors in asthma prevention and treatment, but the profound role of breathing is not sufficiently acknowledged as a therapeutic option. ...more
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Yoga and Breathing Exercises for Mother and Child
Stress is not just for adults - adults and children alike can become worn down by the pressures of day-to-day living. This article offers a range of practical and fun remedies that...more
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Yoga and Detoxification in Tuscany
This article is a detailed and very inspiring account of the centre in Tuscany, run by husband-and-wife team, John Parkin and Gaia Pollini, on The Hill That Breathes. The remote an...more
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Yoga and Dietary Tips for Good Liver Health
This article focuses on the liver, an organ that plays a crucial role in our health and wellbeing, and Yoga exercises aimed at strengthening sluggish livers.more
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Injury can disrupt everything we do, making running, or even walking difficult and exercise impossible. Even small injuries can limit daily activities. Of course, yoga might also be...more
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Yoga and Macrobiotics for Back Pain
Meggan Brummer begins by looking at the benefits of using ginger externally. According to Macrobiotics, a ginger compress can be used to relieve back pain, menstrual cramps, arthri...more
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Yoga and Pilates to Aid Rehabilitation
To understand the role that these Mind/Body disciplines can play in physical (or indeed emotional) rehabilitation, it is important to understand what the differences are between th...more
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In this overview, the author contrasts the eastern and western approaches to treatment of the various forms of diabetes and sets out what can be achieved using Yogic asanas or post...more
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Yoga for Health, Consciousness and Balance
What is Yoga? Yoga is a pragmatic science and philosophy devoted to the realization of the true Self and thereby the exalted state of unalloyed bliss and inner peace.more
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In this article on Yoga for Mental Health the author shares how she discovered and achieved better health and balance within through this practice. She also explains the overall be...more
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An important principle of Yoga is that attention and stability and ease and pleasure can exist within the body side by side. A sense of power and control while being at ease and ...more
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Research has shown Yoga to be the most beneficial alternative therapy towards helping people with Parkinson's.more
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Yoga for Pregnancy Care of Back and Pelvis
My belly is like a balloon, bursting to pop, there doesn’t seem to be any more room left, I am eight months pregnant, my baby isn’t due for another month. Each time I climb a stair,...more
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Yoga for Stress Relief - Tap into Numerous Health Benefits
Yoga is one of the best ways of coping with the stress of modern life. It doesn't involve drugs or great expense, and can be practised by anyone of any age in any physical condition...more
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The author reports that a 2005 study at the National Cancer Institute at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle found that 15 500 people in their fifties who regul...more
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Yoga for Weight Loss and Management
In this article on Yoga for Weight Loss and Management, the author says obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, and a new survey has also found that half of the British ...more
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Yoga in today's stressed-out world, says Ruth White, is as relevant as it was when it originated in India more than 5,000 years ago. It helps slow down an overactive mind while, at...more
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Yoga Nidra Practices for Stress Relief and Better Sleep
Total Yoga Nidra is a form of yoga that requires no physical movement whatsoever: Anyone who can breathe, and anyone who has ever, even once in their lives, fallen asleep, can pract...more
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Yoga Remedies for Body and Mind
Mira Mehta explains how yoga can not only counter the pressures of modern living, but also alleviate many health conditions including back pain, aches and pain in the limbs, respir...more
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While the ancient Greeks were postulating that mind and body were interwoven, the sages of India were exploring the same fundamental subject and coming to the same conclusion – onl...more
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Yoga therapy is a holistic therapy that draws on practices that have been part of the traditional Indian health-care system for thousands of years, and is an approach that has prov...more
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Although general yoga classes can often help people resolve mild health problems, they may be ineffective, or even harmful, for those with more serious conditions. With yoga ther...more
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Yoga Therapy for Perimenopause / Menopause
Many women discover that appropriate yoga practice is a natural support for a healthy menstrual cycle, including the experience of turning points in a woman’s life such as perimenop...more
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This article touches on a few aspects within the vast texts, teachings, techniques, philosophy and disciplines of yoga. It looks into the various stages of the great sage Patanjali...more
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Yoga, Dietary and Lifestyle Approaches for Prostate Problems
In this article which focuses on prostate problems, the author says that although approximately 50% of Australian men may experience some type of prostate problem at some stage of ...more
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Yoga: Oneness of body and mind
How do we keep healthy and happy? That has been, is and will be the 64,000 dollar question.more
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What we choose to believe about the world and ourselves determines the quality of life we have. Our beliefs dictate how well we perform, interact, grow our businesses and spot oppo...more
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You are what your Emotions Are
The explanation of unconscious facial expressions is representative of questioning idioms. That our facial expressions reflect our emotions was a stratagem first articulated by Char...more
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You Can Change your Neural Pathways to Change your Life – Here’s How
I have always loved to look at the science and how behaviour changes. I am a development fanatic with an acute hunger for knowledge in neuroscience, psychology, neuroplasticity, pe...more
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You Don't have to be Perfect to be Free of Back Pain
The article begins by referring to a recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which did MRI scans of 98 people who did not have back pain, and found that m...more
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You Wouldn't Be Normal if You Didn't React in an Abnormal Way!
The author raises a somewhat profound question – what is normal? He clarifies that normal is different from what is usual, but that normality is unusual because you have to react...more
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Young Lives Snuffed Out …Marks didn’t Add Up?
The headlines scream at you every morning. One dreads to switch on news channels nowadays. Reason: Reports of students ending their lives over a few measly marks just hit you betwe...more
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Your Body is Being Shaped by Your Shoes
Shoes are shaping the humans who wear them - and not for the better. Stiff ankles, tight calves, bunions, and hammer toes. Each of these ailments can be directly linked to what kind...more
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This article explains the importance of a balance between omega 3 and omega 6 oils. The widespread use of common and cheap vegetables oils by the food industry means that the desira...more
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Your CAM Practice and the Advertising Standards Authority Ltd - Time to take Action
The issues explored in this article are of vital importance to the success of your business and to the freedom of your patients to choose a CAM practitioner and treatment. If you r...more
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Your Healthy Heart: Herbal and Nutritional Approaches
The author argues the case for integrated medicine as an approach to an imbalanced heart or circulatory system and the precursors such as low or high blood pressure, angina, harden...more
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This article focuses on how our life is reflected back to us. To begin with, the author introduces an interesting perspective on alchemy, defining lead as negative, repetitive thou...more
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Zen Meditation in Kerala - the Spiritual Quest with no Technique to Learn
This is how it is; this is what we have to learn! That there is no technique that will make life wonderful all the time but that there is an attitude we can adopt that accepts that ...more
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Zen-bodytherapy is a system of bodytherapy and somatic education whose goals are to align and balance the structure, function and energy of the body.more
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Zero Balancing (ZB for short, pronounced Zee Bee), can be defined as the art and skill of balancing body energy with body structure through touch.more
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Zoe Smith: On the Road to Recovery
Champion weightlifter, Zoe Smith experienced an injury in June 2016 which blighted her hopes of competing as part of Team GB at the Olympic Games in Rio. Here she discusses her inju...more