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Archive for February, 2010

Memory & Supplements

Posted in Body, Mind, tagged , , , , on February 15, 2010 | Comments Off

Many of us can become memory challenged at different times in our life. Here are some dietary supplements which can help to improve our memory performance. Lecithin (Phosphatidylcholine) This can sometimes improve memory storage and retrieval abilities. Fish Oil (Omega-3) Is very beneficial for health in general, and helps in cell formation. Ginkgo This helps [...]

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Reiki & Chakras

Posted in Body, Health, tagged , , on February 11, 2010 | Comments Off

When healing someone with reiki techniques, special emphasis is often given to our main energy centers, called chakras. The word chakra simply means wheel or disc. And they help to store, balance and distribute energy around our bodies. There are seven main chakras which are addressed in a reiki healing session. These seven main chakras [...]

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Wealth & Health

Posted in Health, tagged , , , on February 10, 2010 | Comments Off

There is an old Chinese saying that health is wealth. Within English speaking westernised cultures, the acquisition of wealth itself has become the dominant way of living, with sometimes disastrous results on many people’s health. In his fascinating book Affluenza, psychologist Oliver James outlines the frightening correlation between self-centred capitalism and emotional ill health. He [...]

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Reiki Healing

Posted in Health, tagged , , , , on February 9, 2010 | Comments Off

Reiki is a system of healing which activates our natural life-force energy towards greater health and vitality. Reiki is highly effective on its own, and is an ideal complimentary therapy working seamlessly in conjunction with other healing modalities. It is a non-invasive therapy which has no unwanted side-effects. It is often taught in two in [...]

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Lavender

Posted in Health, tagged , on February 8, 2010 | Comments Off

Lavender is one of the most popular of essential oils. It is found in aromatherapy, fragrances, soaps, fabric softeners etc. The reason is that lavender has many beneficial properties including emotional balancing, antiseptic, antidepressant and general calming effects. And because of its calming effects on our nervous system, it can help to relieve us of [...]

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Aging V

Posted in Health, tagged , , on February 5, 2010 | Comments Off

The reality of our aging touches all of us, and when beginning to explore this topic as mentioned in the first blog in this series, it has many different aspects: Personal, family, social, economic and scientific. For instance, who is it that ages? Are our mental and physical aging different phenomena? What are the social, [...]

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Mind Control

Posted in Mind, tagged , , on February 4, 2010 | Comments Off

When we look at how we develop as personalities, we often have several underlying assumptions underpinning this. For instance, we may assume that we are a solid fixed ‘I’, that most of the time we make our own decisions and that the world we observe is the world as it is. The above assumptions, and [...]

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