The world of wellness can be mightily confusing. There is a glut of information out there on how to eat, how to exercise, how to parent, how to become successful, how to handle stress and how to be happy. There are experts on everything. So, whose advice should we follow? Which course of action should we take, and...
Are you a glass half full or a glass half empty kind of person? How do your tendencies affect your team at work, your family and your friends? Be honest with yourself and if you feel that you could use a bit more positivity take these three smalls steps to cultivate it: One: Before you leave for work, even if it’s...
Quality of life – it means something different to every person. Entrepreneurship is a bit of a buzz word at the moment and in the world of entrepreneurship there are vastly differing views of what constitutes success and satisfaction. You’ve got people who love to keep busy, like myself, and then there are people who...
I’m a firm believer in the adage ‘if you give a busy person something to do they will do it’. I know when I am moping around, with time up my sleeve, I procrastinate and make poor use of my time. When I am flat out and everyone wants a piece of me, I am super productive…until it all comes crumbling down. Finding a...
It’s time to start practicing what I preach. For the most part I do follow my own advice but the one area where I often fall down is my meditation practice. I had a session with a Chinese Medicine Herbalist and acupuncturist last week. Francis from Balance Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine suggested that I had way too...
One of the most proactive actions we can take towards improving our emotional and general wellbeing is to learn how to become more forgiving. We’ve all suffered hurts and harboured resentments towards another at some time. The key point here is that if the hurt occurred at some time other than now and if we still...
The other morning I was getting dressed for work, with my phone in one hand texting a photographer about a client photo shoot planned for later in the day, coffee cup in the other, with my mind on everything other than what I was doing at that particular moment in time. Now tripping up the stairs and spilling my...
Whether you’ve taken the plunge into some form of meditation practice or not you would have experienced thoughts that preoccupy you at some point. They’re the recurring and persistent ones that just keep on going round and round in your head making it impossible to focus and stay in the present. Sometimes they even...
The purpose of this beautiful meditation is to draw the negativity from our body that causes stress and to balance the body’s energy using a quartz crystal. Crystals are believed to absorb negative energy and therefore must be cleaned regularly. Some suggest cleansing in sea water, leaving overnight in moonlight or...
The older we get the faster time seems to travel and the less time we seem to have to devote to the people and the things that matter most in our lives. It is easy to get wrapped up in our careers or crazy routines – whatever they consist of – and let the important things slide – family, close friends, health and...
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