Feeling Your Way from Stress into ‘Flow’ – Part 1 of 5

“Only by being in harmony with our inner nature, and the Nature all around us, can we truly experience wellbeing and flow” Robyn Harris   It almost seems that ‘busy’ is the new black!  In our culture it appears that this is the way we measure success, or value, but when we put pressure on ourselves to maintain…

Chaos to Calm: Stress Is A Myth

Indulge me for a moment…suppose stress IS a myth? Suppose we created the entity of “stress” so that society had something to blame for the dis-ease of the world: headaches, heart disease, nervous breakdowns, insomnia, anxiety…? These are real afflictions, make no mistake. These are not “it’s all in your head” conditions. However, I found…

My Spiritual Journey: Coping with Stress

My reiki journey continues alongside domestic life, and I am noticing very definite distinctions in my behaviour, my mood, and the way I cope with everyday stress. Before I properly accepted reiki into my life, I would practice meditation sporadically, and while I always sort of knew that I had a very helpful coping mechanism…

Lyme Disease and Benefits of Chaga Medicinal Mushrooms

Before we can appreciate and understand the various benefits of Chaga medicinal mushrooms for helping treatment and symptoms of Lyme, it is important to understand the basic functions and impact of Lyme disease itself. As anyone who has encountered Lyme, or lives with it knows- it is a very sneaky and insidious and invasive condition…

Relaxation

Wake-up, go to work, come home, eat, drive… We are so busy doing many different things in our lives that we forget to relax. Relaxation, as I understand it, is very different from doing nothing, because doing nothing can actually be quite a stressful experience. It normally ends up making the mind and the emotions…

Hypertension Battle Plan

Heart disease is one of the biggest silent killers on a global scale. Having hypertension (or high blood pressure) means that the pressure at which your arteries pump blood from your heart to the rest of your organs and throughout your body is too great. This abnormal blood pressure is what puts stress on the…

What Impairs the Immune System?

Whether you start from sickness or health, when you utilise foods that are unprecedented in their potency, purity and in the complexity of their contribution to your body’s well-being, the aging process slows down. The physiological functions that repair your cells will be optimised and your risk of immune suppression will fall along with many…