Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
One thing we do know about all this coronavirus stuff is that stress and anxiety suppresses immunity. So, by encouraging a calm, healing state, we are much less likely to succumb to infections or get them as severely. With that in mind, following on from Deepak's meditation on the subject here, I thought it might …
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Great TEDx video here for you today with a chap who has interviewed some of the leading experts across the world on anxiety and depression. He wanted to know why so many people are seemingly not coping with life as well on a day to day basis, why mental health issues are on the rise. …
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Saw this today and thought you'd like it. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You …
This popped into my Inbox this morning and, given the difficulties with family illness and moving house currently that some of you know about, it was rather timely, so I thought I'd share it. RICK'S REFLECTION:Â ACCEPT DIFFICULTY Sometimes things are difficult. Your legs are tired and you still have to stay on your feet another …
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Bless me, readers, for I have sinned: it has been 6 months since my last update. I can't believe that. Time really does fly. I thought it was about time I brought you up to date with how I'm getting on - I know many of you like to follow my story 🙂 In my …
We know that one of the main reasons people are slow to heal wounds, including a leaky gut, is consistent emotional stress. We think of correcting nutrient deficiencies, a need for glutamine to feed the cells, identifying and avoiding the foods that trigger problems (often gluten and the cross-reactive foods) and a lack of zonulin …
I've felt all of those at some point or another and certainly when I was feeling really poorly most of the time. You can't help but feel sad, fearful and negative when every day seems to be a struggle, can you? We're only human. What I learned was the the brain can easily get stuck …
Continue reading "Lost, Sad, Fearful, Flat, Negative? Two-Step Programme for Happiness."
This made me laugh today, not least because I was feeling a bit anxious about the amount of work to get through myself. Instead of allowing the panic to build, I stopped and did a twenty minute meditation and now here I am writing blog posts which always calms me! There should always be time …
We've all been there: nursing a broken heart after a relationship split. We wouldn't say that is classical depression, but a new study shows that the serotonin pick-up we get from 5HTP can really help at this time. This is not surprising since 5HTP has a good pedigree for helping depression generally. What is 5HTP? …