If you find yourself zonked out on the couch by evening time, you’ve likely been accumulating stress throughout your day. What if you could de-stress more or less as quickly as you collect stress?
If you didn’t accumulate stress through your day, how might you feel come the evening? And what if you could link de-stressing to an automatic body process? Continue reading »
I’m regularly ‘Noticing & Resting’ to magically dissolve issues on the spot! I’ve come full circle – and with a deeper understanding – to an evolution of an approach I first learned fifteen years ago!
The Sedona Method – the basis of Noticing & Resting – was one of the first healing approaches I learned. After a weekend workshop of letting go of feelings my stress level, and associated physical symptoms including migraines, would disappear, and my energy level soar – so much so that people told me I looked different! Continue reading »
Resting is different to relaxing.
When someone asks me to relax, I immediately think of doing something, like slowing my breathing or letting go of tight muscles. Even thinking about doing these things is doing something with my brain!
Resting, on the other hand, is doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. No thinking. No moving. No tensing. No conscious relaxing. Continue reading »
It’s difficult to find stillness in our busy, media-filled lives.
So easy to be diverted from one task to another, or escape into the worlds of the internet, or recycled thinking. For our minds to be occupied 24/7.
But stillness brings ease and wellbeing not found in all that activity. Continue reading »
How many times have you resolved to adopt a healing habit, only to give up after quite a short time?
That’s if you even got started! I’ve certainly done both, and now I’d like to share what I’ve found works in preparing for a habit that does stick. Continue reading »
Seven year old Emma was playing with a bamboo stick she’d found as we walked back from the beach.
She used it as a walking stick, to point out frog spawn in a ditch, and to check the height of the bridge above the river. Continue reading »
When you’re stuck with your health or healing, chances are there’s a part of you wanting to improve, while another part is resisting the change. Sending out these conflicting messages gives a mixed signal to the universe, so you remain stuck.
What to do? Harmonise the opposing parts! Continue reading »
Is your mind on the go all the time? Always chattering? Stressing you out? Affecting your health?
Here’s a very quick way to quieten it down! Continue reading »
Your body’s natural restorative powers are deeply affected by your quality of sleep.
And your quality of sleep is in turn influenced by the state of your body, mind and emotions before you drift into the sleep state. Continue reading »
This year, rather than a New Year’s Resolution, I’ve chosen to follow a theme I’m calling ‘Vibrant Living’. For me, a theme offers a more holistic approach, and also gives scope for adjustment as the year unfolds.
I wonder what your theme might be? Continue reading »