Category: All blog articles
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The Health Benefits of Decluttering Your Life
Many lifestyle factors can influence overall health. Good health is not gained from simply eating good food, taking the latest supplement, or following a strict regime. In this article, I discuss some of the health benefits of decluttering, sorting your stuff out, and getting your place in order. I have always considered myself a minimalist.…
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Flower Essences for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Flower essences are one of my go-to adjunctive therapies to help support individuals dealing with all sorts of stress-related emotional imbalances. In this article, I introduce a selection of flower essence remedies specific to the most common symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Sometimes described as the ‘aftermath of shock’, PTSD includes a cluster of…
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Five Flower Essences To Help with a Relationship Breakup
I had a friend many years ago who liked to define his relationships with people by the ‘reason, season or a lifetime’ principle. He often asked people soon after meeting them how long they would be in his life. Needless to say, our friendship only lasted a season. While many of us don’t feel the…
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Five Herbs To Help With Stress Management
Stress is an intangible but ever-present component of modern daily life. A little stress is good; it gets us up and moving to finish a task, but too much stress can be debilitating for the physical, emotional and spiritual body. In this article, we look at five herbs that can help the body cope with…
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The Role of Luck in Health: Chance or Choice?
What role does luck play in health and illness? Should we leave our well-being up to chance? And why do some people have more luck than others regarding health? This article considers these questions and asks: Does health have anything to do with luck? Luck is defined as “Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather…
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The Evolution of Fad Diets Through the Decades
With a combination of information overload and a penchant for quick fixes, it seems understandable that fad diets and new ways of eating can become confusing and a little jejune. I am often fascinated by the food choices people make when there seems to be an abundance of food available. Knowing what is healthy is…
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Probiotic v’s Prebiotic: What’s the Difference?
Good bugs, probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics – it all sounds like gobbledygook! Hopefully, this article will clear up some confusion. What are these bacteria or good bugs in the gut? Beneficial bacteria in the large intestine are called commensal or symbiotic; they live as part of our healthy body. They make up what is termed…
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Oil Pulling with Organic Black Sesame Oil
Dental hygiene is known in Ayurvedic medicine as Danta Swasthya and is considered the root cause of many health conditions, both in modern medicine and in ancient texts of Ayurvedic science. In addition to the common Western routine of brushing and flossing, Ayurveda incorporates oil pulling as part of a regular routine, or Dinacarya. Oil…
