Resources
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.
Self-awareness and Meditation
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 [...]
The Benefits of Counselling – Preventative Relationship Care
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 [...]
The Benefits of Counselling around the Ageing Process #2
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 [...]
Tackling the state of Impatience
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, [...]
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. [...]






