Someone asked me this yesterday and I suddenly realised I hadn't updated you since the start of the year (here: What Happened in 2017?). Doesn't time fly! So, here is an update for you so you can see where I'm up to if you are following my healing story. The foods... Food-wise, if you remember, …
14 Second Hack To Keep Cortisol Low In Times Of Stress
I rather liked this little tip. It seems if you can recall happy times more in times of stress, your cortisol doesn't rise as much. Cool! High cortisol is a sign of acute stress and inflammation in the body, it encourages belly fat deposition and upsets your blood sugar regulation for a start so is …
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Kundalini Yoga – Eh?
What is kundalini yoga and will it help your stress?
Central Sensitivity Syndrome – Zinc, Butyrate & Lithium?
For those of us who suffer multiple sensitivity, chronic pain, chronic fatigue and the like, I am always keeping my eye out for articles on central sensitivity syndrome, as I believe that is at the heart of why many of us suffer. If you don't know what central sensitivity syndrome is, see here and …
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Stick or Twist? Does the Subconscious Get Fed Up With The Same Imagery
I saw this interesting question today about whether - a bit like shampoo - you should change the meditation/hypno imagery that you are using to help heal frequently or should you stick with the same one? I've often wondered that. Does the subconscious mind get sick of hearing the same CD or audio or does …
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Hypnotherapy for Physical Healing
Hot on the heels of my own alien-on-face removal story, here is 'our' Julie's own recent story of using auto-suggestion and hypnotherapy to heal minor surgery fast! Pretty impressive. We are using similar techniques to try and get my ibuprofened-gut to heal quickly for my wedding, but I have been less diligent that I should …
Hypnotherapy and the Alien on My Face!
That's a great title isn't it?! I know how you like my weirdy healing stories sometimes so thought you might like this one. Recently, if you recall, I have been having TMJ (jaw hinge) pain. Terrible, terrible, terrible. It took 2.5 months for me to realise it was caused by stress causing leaky gut and …
Progress Update Since Healing Plan!
I thought it was about time I gave you an update on how I am doing with my own health 'journey' as I know you like those. So, prepare for soul-bearing once more.... At the time of publishing the Healing Plan, I was doing really well. I had managed to start getting a lot of …
Energy Routines for Hayfever and General Health
Thought this might help those of you suffering with blocked sinuses and horrid hayfever symptoms this season. I have been trying to do this lady's energy healing routine as often as I can (failing!) and then I saw this hayfever/allergies one which I thought you might like. Here's the hayfever one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQm6M7F5_4Q And here's …
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Mind-Body Medicine Affects Inflammation Gene Expression
A recent overview of studies suggest that one of the ways things like yoga, meditation, tai chi, hypnotherapy and the like help us with our physical health is that they downregulate expression of genes related to inflammation. How fab is that? It helps when people can actually see a biochemical reason for what some people …
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