Michael’s Blogs
This page is a collection of Michael’s articles, newsletters, sources of inspiration and posts. These are offered to you as educational material and practical tips for health and wellbeing in everyday life.
The benefits of Counselling around the Ageing Process # 1
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 [...]
Autumn Newsletter 2014 – Detox
A report of the effects of a six week detox program on parameters such as inflammation.
Summer 2013 Clinic Newsletter
Greetings to you, one and all, as summer flexes its muscles and the tide of the year 2013 ebbs quickly away. I know it has been an eventful year and a very challenging one for many of you. There have been both ups and downs involving work and financial security, issues with co-workers and managements, [...]
Summer Newsletter 2012 Stay on top of your Stress with therapy regularly
2013 will see us leave the Year of the Dragon, and enter the Year of the Snake. That transition will take place on Chinese New Year, February 10th. I read on a website that the snake prefers "a life of calmness, preferring quietness over noise and a manageable workload rather than a schedule thats overly-booked. [...]
Clinic Newsletter June 2011 Stagnancy in Chinese Medicine
Winter Notably, of late, the winter chills have hit and laid many people low. My advice, generally, is to stay warm and protected from the cold, by dressing appropriately for winter - something that many Brisbanites don’t do. Eating for the season is also really important . This involves minimizing foods which are more identified [...]
Summer 2010 Real Resolutions
Keep all your healthy practices rolling throughout the festive break and that includes normal maintenance treatments in clinic. Remember that peak health is the best gift you can give to yourself and think how cool that will feel in early January, when you're not picking up the pieces. Resolve not to have resolutions. "A new [...]
Spring 2010 Food & Absorption – we are what we assimilate
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 [...]
Clinic Newsletter July 2010
Staying Warm - A Winter's Tale Its official, the winter chill has truly descended upon us. Though we live in the subtropics, its still relatively cold in Brisbane and we need to act appropriately. Generally speaking, we don't have the same heavy duty warm clothing as residents of Melbourne and Sydney, so we need to [...]
Paradigms
Cultures, Contexts and Shifts ‘Personally engaged’ paradigms are the corner stones of one’s version of reality and thus, one’s filters to experience’. In regards to healing practices, useable paradigms are amongst other things culturally endowed. Attitudes toward health, fitness, disease and dysfunction are all framed early in our lives; these mature and solidify into staunch [...]
Feng Shui and Chinese Medicine
Feng Shui is pronounced “Foong Schway” and literally means ‘wind and water’. Feng Shui originated in China thousands of years ago and was practiced as an imperial prerogative until early this century. Feng Shui is not a religion, not just a set of superstitions or a static science. feng shui provides us with models for [...]