Tag: health
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The Molecules of Emotion
Anyone who has ever felt sick with worry or cried at the cinema knows that there is a close connection between our thoughts, emotions and bodily state, but only in the last couple of decades has the medical establishment acknowledged this connection and begun to take it seriously. The reason was that scientists could find…
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The Best Exercise
Among all the hype for expensive gyms, personal trainers and trendy keep fit programmes, it’s easy to forget that the very best exercise costs almost nothing and is available to almost everyone. According to research by the LSE, people who regularly walk at a brisk pace for more than 30 minutes at a time are…
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Tap it or bottle it?
People have asked for my opinion on the advantages of bottled versus tap water. Here goes: When you drink pure, fresh water, the body loves it. You can almost hear it saying, ‘thank you’. So does it matter if it comes from a natural well or spring in a bottle, or from a processing plant…
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Alcohol – an excuse?
The recent sexual shenanigans at Westminster have thrown light on one aspect of Parliamentary life that often goes unnoticed – the role of the easy access to alcohol in the Houses of Parliament due to the numerous bars and long opening hours available throughout the building. It’s quite normal for people of all ages and…
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Are you getting enough?
It is said that we can go five weeks without food, five days without water and five minutes without oxygen. Oxygen we normally take for granted, food we enjoy, but drinking pure water can be an effort for many. Water make up on average two thirds of our body weight – higher for younger people…
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Working in Nature Improves Mental Health
A study by the University of Essex for the Wildlife Trust has revealed that doing voluntary work in nature improves mental wellbeing. 95% of the 139 volunteers reported an improvement in their symptoms within six weeks. The work included shrub clearing, conservation work, tree planting and food harvesting. The results demonstrate once again that the…
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Natural healing
Natural healing is not always a quick fix. It may involve radical change to your lifestyle and habits which take weeks or months to pay off. But good habits of eating well, drinking clean, fresh fluids, breathing pure oxygen, plenty of rest, outdoor exercise and fulfilling work, a positive attitude and connecting to healthy Earth…
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Emotional Intelligence
‘Being emotionally intelligent means that you know what emotions you and others have, how strong they are, and what causes them. ‘Coming out’ emotionally is about being honest about your feelings, asking for what you want and above all learning to express yourself from the heart.’ Dr Claude Steiner Two or three decades ago, it…
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Informational Medicine
Cutting edge science is demonstrating that information, not energy alone, is the key to health and healing. It takes intelligence to make a body; intelligence instructs the atoms and cells that create the body. Give the body new information to work with and it has the restore a sick body to full health. The body…
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The greatest mind-body healer?
The greatest mind-body healer of recent times was a diminutive and rather brusque character who lived in New England in the first half of the nineteenth century. His name was Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. He deserves to be much better known. Having cured himself of tuberculosis, considered impossible in those days, he developed a healing method…