'General Health' Category
Flood this Body Part with Goodness
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Recently my best friend had a does of food poisoning, or some stomach bug. They woke up at 4:30 in the morning and started vomiting every 45 minutes. We got to a medical centre as soon as it opened and she got some pills to stop the vomiting. From here it was a […]More Vitality For Us By Listening to Our Muscles: What Benefits We Can Get From Bodywork
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There is a school of therapy called ‘bodywork’. This sits in the area between massage and talking. It is focused on our ability to feel and express our vitality and to remove the blocks that get in the way of us doing this. It mostly deals with our muscles and emotions […]Make Your Future: It’s Healthy.
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A good friend of mine, Paul Wildman, is a futurist. This is a bit unusual today. There was a time when ‘futurologists’ and ‘futurists’ were quite often in the media - especially people like Alvin Toffler.
I think the futurists became less prominent in the media when people realised that they weren’t claiming to […]Two Ways to be Rid of Stress
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Stress can contribute to ill-health. This has led to much attention being paid to reducing stress. I’d like to look at turning this on its head or approaching it from the other direction.
I think it is clear that stress isn’t working hard or to do with a particular kind of […]If stress causes dis-ease what causes stress?
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I think it is generally accepted that stress makes it more likely that we will get sick. Whether stress alone can cause us to get sick might be a bit more contentious. Nevertheless, it is generally accepted that stress can make it more likely we will get sick.
This raises the question […]Staying Sane and Healthy At Home
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All of my adult life I have had fairly unconventional jobs. Apart from two years where I was a teacher of adults, I haven’t been employed in the usual way - and this was working in a gaol, so that was a bit unusual too. (You can read more about […]The Past Can Make You Ill: Three Tips to Help
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Researchers at the University of New South Wales (in Sydney, Australia where I live), such as Professor Coiera, have been looking at how people search for health information on line. Their news release is titled, “Why the web tells us what we already know”.
They found that when people are looking for health information […]
