The Shenmen Point, also known as HT7, is an amazing and wonderful way to help manage stress, anxiety, and insomnia […]
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My daughter, now ten, was diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis when she was three years old. Over the past seven years she has shown incredible resilience and has managed her chronic pain, joint injections and endless hospital appointments with humbling strength and determination but it has been a real struggle at times. About a year ago, she experienced a particularly bad and extended period of pain and stiffness. She needed pain relief daily but over-the-counter medication (Ibuprofen) began causing her gastric irritation.
Our Mind-Body connection is powerful and can be optimised for healing and symptom management. Here’s how you can use this information for yourself…
Candace Pert was a pharmacologist and neuroscientist who made ground-breaking discoveries about the communication between the mind and body. In
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The concept of neuroplasticity has become quite well known these days. Well-known statements like “neurons that fire together, wire together” (Donald Hebb), and “where attention goes, energy flows” (James Redfield), have now become clichés in practically any self-development field.
Bloating, pain, constipation? If you’re struggling with your digestive health, read on how bitters can help soothe and improve it.
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I spent years in denial, still trying to cling to the parts of my old life, still looking for ways to feel like I had some control. It wasn’t until I truly surrendered (not a pretty process!) that I realised how much our body speaks to us when we sit in the stillness. I was physically broken, yet learning to feel and listen more.
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Your fitness is tied to the deliberate, day-to-day decisions you make to eat only healthy and balanced diet food. Any other effort beyond healthy fitness food is only supplementary.
You will not benefit much if you focus on fitness yet neglect the intake of the right nutrients for your body.
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In Part One – ‘Could Your Personality Be Contributing To Your Chronic Pain?’ I mentioned that, after recognising myself in many
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Almost a year ago, I developed lower back pain. At first I thought I had pulled a muscle ducking under a tree branch while out running with a friend.
I took it easy for a few days and the pain seemed to subside. But then it came back, and with a vengeance. It remained with me on and off for a year and was often so severe that I had to hold onto pieces of furniture to support myself when rising from a chair or my bed, or when brushing my teeth.
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We’ve all been there some time or other: we get injured or start experiencing some form of pain, and the people around us will all come up with their own suggestions, sometimes even with a full retelling of their own painful experience;
“Don’t carry too much weight!”, “Be careful at the gym!”, “it took very long to get better after I got that”, or, the worst of the worst: “Your pain might be chronic”.
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To start with holistic medicine, which emerged in China, about 5 thousand years back. It considers the inner and external elements impacting the performance of the body.
The basis of the medicine is to improve the power of personal fitness, and the disease is taken an occurrence arising from the loss of stability and inner harmony of the spirit.
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Have you noticed in traditional approaches to change that the focus is often on the past and the problem, rather than effectively providing tools and techniques to help you move forward?
We are huge advocates for a whole-self, holistic, mind-body approach that focuses on our clients life NOW and a future without the problem, by getting to the root cause of their issues and creating shifts from the inside out.
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So, how can we restore our youthfulness and finally bring balance to our mind and body? There are several ways to do it, so if you’re interested to know more and learn how to enjoy a great holistic balance, read on.
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Change of any kind is often done by consciously focusing on doing something different. But that’s not so easy when you’re trying to make your brain do something it’s not familiar with.
This is why understanding and working with your brain is the key to change – without getting your brain on board and working with you, change will be extremely hard.
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