I would argue that all the ‘pillars’ of your health and wellbeing are built on the vital foundation of sleep. Without sufficient sleep: A quick search online will offer up many suggestions for the ‘essential pillars’ of good health ranging from 3 to 12 or more. In my opinion, there are several pillars of your […]
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More Festive Fun, Less Seasonal Stress This blog includes a meditation for you to enjoy Christmas means different things to different people. Many people love everything about Christmas, others hate it. Most people are somewhere along a scale between love and hate. I’d hazard a guess that, like many people, you enjoy Christmas and would
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5 Top Tips to make it Easier to Reduce your Caffeine Intake Sleep is vital to our physical and mental wellbeing. However, a huge percentage of the population struggle to enjoy good quality, refreshing sleep on a regular basis. Here are a couple of worrying statistics: Nearly half (48%) of adults and two thirds (66%)
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How can I make it easier? Why do I find it so hard to lose weight? According to a quick search on an search engine, over 50% of the global population are trying to lose weight. I will take children and young people under 18 out of the equation. That’s a significant proportion of the
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Margaret Webster, Hypnotherapist and Holistic Therapist Sleep is vital for our health and wellbeing. It is, however, something we often neglect. In fact, humans are the only species on the planet which consciously deprives itself of sleep. Just take a moment to digest and process that information. We like to think of ourselves as a
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Stop treating rest as a non-essential luxury. ‘Resting is not laziness, it’s medicine’ Glenn Schwietzer Rest is not a luxury. Why has rest become a luxury in modern life? Rest didn’t used to be a luxury, it was as much a part of normal life as breathing, food, shelter and sleep. Rest is an essential
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I had intended to write this month on the subject of stress. However, October 2020 is Pro-Touch Awareness Month so the topic of touch was calling to me instead. It felt appropriate to take this sideways step as touch can be beneficial in helping to ease stress and anxiety anyway. So, what does touch mean
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Life in lock-down can mean that the days all begin to blur into one. If, like me, you already have absolutely no idea what day of the week it is, you may have only just realised that tomorrow is a bank holiday ! The start of the long Easter Weekend! There have been numerous posts
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What does ‘stress’ mean to you? What situations do you find stressful? Stress means something different to us all. We all find different elements of our lives stressful. Something that causes me stress, you may take in your stride. There are those day to day stressors such as asking a child to get ready to
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I have heard of Sports Massage, but what is Therapeutic Massage and what should I expect?Massage is: a natural therapy which has been used for thousands of years to treat musculoskeletal problems. Musculoskeletal Problems and Massage:Minor injuries are the most common musculoskeletal problems. These can be extremely painful, often seriously impacting on an individual’s occupation, sport,
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