Food is one of two things: either it is your medicine that heals you, energises you, supporting your immune system, enhancing your sleep quality, or food is your poison by disintegrating you, stopping you from feeling good, effecting your sleep or being the basis from which disease starts. Vandana Shiva's book 'Oneness' suggests that [...]
Staying positive in a negative world can be a challenge. According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are negative and 95% are repetitive thoughts. If we repeat those negative thoughts, we think negative way more than we think positive thoughts. All negative [...]
As we grow older if we are not careful, we will start to lose mobility in the body and mind. The human body was never designed to be sedentary nor was it designed to be stimulated by TV. Constant stimulation such as EMFs and sugar put the central nervous system into sympathetic dominant, a state [...]
We are all different and have different ways of approaching matters in life. This is to do with not only our conditioning but our learning type skills. Different ways of learning is recognised with a variety of schooling now available throughout the UK. Introduction of Forest schooling, Montersory, Steiner and other cognitive development is starting [...]
If you are suffering from chronic pain in the neck, shoulder, hip or lower back, there's a bigger picture than just doing a few simple exercises to rehabilitate - whether it be functional movement, pilates or yoga. A proper assessment rather than guess work tells a thousand stories. Everything is connected and related in the [...]
So I am approaching 50 and my body is changing all the time. One size does not fit all. It's a myth that pilates or any other kind of exercise makes you slim. Flat abdominals always start in the kitchen. Everyone is different and this is why consultations are so important. We need to access [...]
According to Hippocrates, the father of medicine, “All disease begins in the gut.” 2,500 years later and he has been proven to be right! Each time I am stopped by a charity worker raising money for alzeimers, cancer, depression, parkinson, autism and many more . I always ask them if they have heard of [...]
Drastic inactivity eventually leads to a 30% higher mortality rate for men and double the mortality rate for women. In today's world, seniors remain active and vital beyond the age of sixty-five, leading to a drastic increase in life span. The more activity you add to your daily lifestyle, the better your body will respond [...]
An experiment was ran on mice by placing them in a cages wired to receive electrical shocks. Each shock was spatially harmless. But after repeated shocks given over multiple days left the mice dull and listless. Their immune response was severely compromised and some actually died from the harmless stress. This experiment allows us to [...]
Most of us are reactive; we experience two sorts of stress, within the work place and with families and colleagues. Ask yourself these questions? Do I react emotionally and emotions blow up? Do I complain about pressure I’m under, mostly to people who aren’t causing it? Do I pass the stress down the line, unloading [...]
