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China beach, Vietnam – we all need a bit of sunshine and bliss
A short post this time ’round. I was looking through my photos from a recent break in Vietnam and felt a pang. Is it possible to carry through the balance restored on holiday into ordinary life? I...
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Lessons from spontaneous remissions
This evening I was listening to a podcast from the Mind Body Spirit Festival in London (forgive me, I am not sure which year). Arielle Essex led a two hour workshop on “Practical Miracles Healing” and...
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Caffeine, dopamine and me
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) For the past three days I have woken at 5 am (for reasons I will come to shortly). I go into the kitchen, take out coffee beans from the fridge, finely grind them...
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What is BPA and why is it bad?
What is BPA? BPA is bisphenol A. As you can probably guess from the name, BPA is an industrial chemical. It is used to make plastics (like water bottles, food containers, some toys, and until...
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Rabbit holes
Subconscious (Photo credit: kevin dooley) I have been journeying down all sorts of rabbit holes over the past few months, immersing myself in new concepts and sliding down new ideas as I come across...
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Vegetarian no more
Cover of Good Calories, Bad Calories A few months ago I wrote about my food journey, and how my eating habits have been shaped by knowledge and assumptions that I have acquired through the years. For...
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Fasting and individuality
Bali (Photo credit: Kenny Teo (zoompict)) Last year I went on a 4 day cleansing programme at a retreat/healing centre in Bali called Golden Rock. The setting is gorgeous and I was well taken care of,...
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Dipping my toes into change river
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) At 36 I made a decision to change my life. I decided to step down from a great, well paid job managing a very successful division of a risk consultancy in order to learn about...
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I care about you and love myself: compassion increases self-esteem
self-esteem (Photo credit: Key Foster) Take a group of people, assign them tasks involving compassion to others for between 5 and 15 minutes per day over the course of just one week and what will...
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8 compassionate actions
Compassion is Consciousness… (Photo credit: ConnectIrmeli) In my last post I wrote about the amazing power of compassion to not only help those around us, but also to boost happiness, self-esteem and...
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