Or, if you are at home, you can add vinegar to boiling water, and inhale.

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If you’re plagued by too many thoughts spinning around your head, try this Eckhart Tolle technique.

Ask yourself  ‘I wonder what my next thought is going to be?’

If you’re like me, you’ll suddenly find your mind goes blank!

Should you find yourself ‘thinking’ again, repeat the question….

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Ginger has a multitude of healing properties

Cut thin slices of fresh ginger root. Add boiling water and a slice of lemon. Allow to infuse until it reaches the strength you like. Sip and savour!

I first tasted this tea with an Italian fig biscuit in the tranquility of the Botanic Gardens in Cambridge! To comment, click

I was wary of adding beet stalks and leaves to my smoothies, thinking they would make it bitter. Not so, it came out a beautiful pink colour and delicious!

Blend: 1 peeled orange, 1 inch slice fresh pineapple, 1 banana, 1 apple, handful of beet tops (stalks and leaves). Add some water if you prefer a drinkable smoothie. Vary the ingredients to match what you have available.

Enjoy! 

Summertime in Scotland draws the potential hazards of bites and sunburn.

For me midge bites (like a mild form of mosquito bite) quickly disappear, but cleg, or horse fly bites, swell up and itch for a week or more.

Last week I applied aloe vera juice shortly after feeling the nip of several horse fly bites, and they disappeared overnight. I used to buy aloe vera in a tube, now we grow it in a pot, and it’s easy to cut a leaf and use the juice which emerges.

Now that I eat more raw food I’m much more tolerant of the sun; but if I do get a bit too much, aloe vera juice calms it down overnight.

So, if bites or burns are a hazard for you, I encourage you to test a small area of your skin first, and if all’s well apply aloe vera juice until the symptoms disappear.

If you know of a repellent for horse flys that really works, please let me know!

If your energy is flowing the wrong way, it’s moving backwards while you’re trying to move forwards!

Fortunately there’s an easy way to ensure your energy flows the right way.

Use your finger tips, or loosely curled fists, to tap or rub your K27 points. They are located slightly below the notch at the inner end of your collarbone, as shown in the photo.

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This also works for whole brocolli, cabbage, celery, lettuce etc. For best results first trim off the dried end of the stump, so the water can get in.

Enjoy!

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When you’re exercising and find yourself getting out of breath

This helped me keep my breathing controlled when I used to jog, and later when I pushed our pram up a very steep hill every day!

Quinoa, pronounced ‘keen-wah’ is a seed which contains all eight essential amino acids

You can sprout quinoa, or cook it and use it like rice or cous cous.

In the winter I make a ‘warm salad’ which is a fresh salad with warm quinoa on top. Yum!

Cold water boosts your circulation, releases toxins and gives you a glorious sense of well-being!

Caution: not recommended if you have a heart problem.