Many of my clients ask how they can improve on the sustainability of their health status. My answer is that one has to maintain proactivity. At any time we are under the influence of many and various environmental chemical effects in air, water and foods. Many live and work in sedentary lifestyles, bereft of physical [...]
In my last blog I mentioned approaches to meditation. I talked about the difficulty of actually stilling the mind, restless beast that it is. My preference is, at least initially, to observe the mind’s activity in response to my effort of fixed attention. I think it is very important to keep in mind that if [...]
Meditation is a wonderful tool, available to assist us to enhance our sense of self-awareness, not to mention more effectively deal with our responses to stress. More on stress in a later blog... I am frequently asked about different paths of meditation and which, in my opinion is the best technique or approach. My [...]
A number of couples with whom I have worked recently are evidence of a shift in attitude concerning relationship care. They have sensed that things are not going well and come along earlier rather than later in a bid to avoid continuing relationship deterioration and potentially, ‘hitting the wall’. Once a couple hits the metaphorical [...]
When it comes to the way we age are we not our own worst enemies? Most references, in western society's lexicon describing ageing, are skewed towards the idea of breakdown, decay and dependency . This is not a very secure foothold on one's future. I feel that the way we talk sets us on [...]
Picture this everyday situation. Sitting behind the steering wheel, your car stuck in heavy traffic, in the slower, middle lane on the way to work, waiting.....and feeling frustrated, watching the cars whizz by in the multi-passenger lane. A splendid example of impatience. Give me half an hour in a car with someone, driving around town, [...]
Have you heard of the prose poem ‘Desiderata’? It was popular back in the 70’s and was played a lot on the radio. It is a prose poem written by Max Ehrmann of Indiana, in 1927. One line of it stood out to me even back when I was a teenager: ‘Take kindly the counsel [...]
A report of the effects of a six week detox program on parameters such as inflammation.
Is it true that we are what we eat? Is it true that we are what we eat? Greetings at the outset of Spring 2010. This edition is dedicated to dispelling some misconceptions concerning how we fuel our bodies. Now, some thoughts on food: 'Fish is the only food thats considered spoiled once it smells [...]
Heaven, Earth and Human (HEH)is basically a designation. A central component of Taoist philosophy, this concept can spawn many different bearings. HEH is a viewpoint which suggests, amongst other things: A theory of evolutive creative forces The place occupied by humans in the scheme of things Observances, via which one can restore balance, harmony, homeostasis [...]
