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When you’ve gotta go…. you’ve just got to go
Can self-care be as simple as taking a toilet break?
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Meditation Is not a quick fix
Meditation works when you build a quality that can be carried into life itself – a lived quality. Meditation is not a crutch nor is it the be all and end all. The Gentle Breath Meditation supports you in this, stripping away the false ‘benefits’ of meditation.
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The importance of breathing
The way we breathe affects our health and even the way we feel. Read more to find out about the benefits of breathing and how to breathe to feel relaxed and reduce stress
Breath, Stress, Relaxation, Health, Gentle breath, Healthy living
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Exercise for weight loss – a myth?
This article explores whether exercise is the answer to losing weight or if that is indeed a myth.
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Are you fit for life? Part 2
Being fit for life – what does that mean. Have we got fitness wrong, and or, is it falling well short of the real mark?
Body awareness, Self-love, Fitness, Lifestyle diseases, Healthy living
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Always hungry for more?
Addresses the endless drive to eat to satisfy our never ending hunger and how we put a stop to that.
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Before and after: Rowena Stewart on her relationship with food
Rowena shares how her awareness around food and healing her hurts has completely changed her weight, shape and health.
Weight-loss, Gluten free, Dairy free, Hurt, Weight, Body awareness, Healthy living, Coeliac/celiac
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Reflecting on alcohol consumption
When you have friends who don’t drink when you do, what feelings arise? Read one man’s experience of what makes us uncomfortable when another makes a healthy choice.
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Begin breaking the battle with the sweet poison
Is sugar (the sweet poison) leaving a bitter taste in our body as well as in the national health services around the world? This article begins to explore why we might be addicted to sugar ...
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Your best medicine?
Love is something that we all crave; we all want to be loved and to love back in return. Could love be our best medicine?
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Diabetes Nation
Most cases of Type 2 Diabetes are entirely preventable through lifestyle choices, yet diabetes continues to rise at alarming rates. What will make people stop eating the foods they know are an assault on the body?
Lifestyle, Sugar, Health conditions, Healthy living, Sugar Free
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Self-care at work makes sense, why is it not common practice?
No one at work ever tells us NOT to take care of ourselves at work, and, we all know that it is needed. Why then is self-care not consistently practiced in workplaces?
Absenteeism, Appreciation, Career, Culture, Leadership, Productivity, Healthy living
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What is good medicine?
Good medicine is about living in a way that supports you as a whole.
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Lifestyle vs. Livingness
This article explores the difference between lifestyle and livingness and how living life from your true essence leads you to healthy living.
Livingness, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Behaviour, Culture, Essence, Harmony, Illusion, Healthy living
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Serge Benhayon on food and diet
Director of Universal Medicine Serge Benhayon talks about food and how to have a healthy relationship with it.
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Overeating: are you eating until you feel sick?
Our large food portions have in fact become normal. The body will often tell a very different story to the ones our taste buds do as we indulge in every mouthful. Why are we capable of overeating even until feeling sick?
Over eating, Obesity, Fatigue, Culture, Self-worth, Healthy living
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Serge Benhayon on Unimed Living
In this interview, Universal Medicine Director, Serge Benhayon, shares the story of a group of people who are living against the current societal trends of illness and disease and felt inspired to share this simple and practical way of living with the world.
Vitality, Health conditions, Lifestyle, Well-being, Healthy living
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Current ‘self-care’ fads – do they really work?
Do populist self-care strategies in the workplace actually work, or do they just further add to our already full schedules; our various lists of tasks, goals, aspirations and resolutions?
Presence, Connection, Work life balance, Meditation, Mindfulness, Healthy living
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New Year’s Day – January 1st
At the start of the year is great moment to have a deep and meaningful chat with your body!
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Who’s the man?
As men do we really know ourselves; do we want to, or are we just distracting ourselves from life and who we truly are?
Awareness, Communication, Confidence, Healthy living, Self-empowerment, Self-worth
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How many hoops will the food industry enthusiastically jump through in order to get to our purse ...
The Food Industry – how low does it go?
Food industry, Media, Nutrition, Sugar alternatives, Healthy living
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Berry green breakfast dairy free smoothie
This super yummy smoothie is jam-packed full of antioxidants and vitamins, and will sustain you for the day ahead. Fun and easy to make, it's a great one for the kids to help with too.
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Depression, exhaustion and adrenal fatigue
Depression and exhaustion could be a result of adrenal fatigue, meaning a depletion in kidney energy. Self-care is a great tool to have up one’s sleeve to help heal.
Body awareness, Depression, Exhaustion, Fatigue, Connection, Mental health, Well-being, Healthy living
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Gluten free crackers with sunflower and sesame seeds
Here it is! Easy to make and nutritious gluten free cracker recipe. Tasty, light and crunchy, this recipe’s an absolute winner with high calcium too! Great as a snack or light meal alongside your favourite dip, try the Cannellini Bean Hummus or Avocado Salsa.
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Fresh herb summer salad
This salad is sure to be a favourite at summer barbeques or shared lunches. It is super simple and not shy of flavours; fresh and crisp with a combination of yummy herbs that really make this salad something special.
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Healthy habits and healthy lifestyle tips
We all want to live in a way that supports healthy habits and means a healthy lifestyle. Read how we can reduce cardiovascular disease, lung disease and obesity by developing healthy habits.
Healthy living, Health, Self-love, Lifestyle, Lifestyle diseases
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Self-care – the gift of you
Is self-care simply caring for yourself, or is there a greater gift on offer? If so, why is taking care of yourself no longer enough, and what has true self-care to offer?
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Alcohol consumption: Is there a recommended daily intake?
Dr. Amelia Stephens busts the myths behind “recommended daily drinking”
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Did you know that singing together makes our hearts beat as one?
What is it about singing that can turn complete strangers into family? Researchers have found that singing together makes our hearts beat as one – literally. A microcosm of human life, a choir speaks volumes about how we are and can be with each other.
Community, Connection, Healthy relationships, Music, Healthy living
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Food glorious food
Awash with food outlets, TV cooking shows, TV chefs and their latest recipe books, should we be healthier and eating better than ever?
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Is there a healthy way to be ill?
None of us are immune from ever being ill and we have many phrases that reflect that this is an everyday part of life. We cannot always prevent ourselves from getting sick, but is there a healthy way to be ill?
Disease, Health, Sickness, Lifestyle diseases, Healthy living
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Nutritional Dogma – Food rules or loving impulse?
When we categorise foods and diet into ‘good’ and ‘bad’, are we truly supporting ourselves or creating restrictions and dogma?
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Being my own masterpiece
From living a life in parts to living in harmony
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The tangible way of Godliness…
What does it mean to live religiously on a very practical, everyday basis?
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Food labelling standards and our food choices
What has happened to the quality of our foods over the past 30-50 years? Are we aware of what we are actually eating and its quality?
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Gentle Breath Meditation in daily life
"With over 20 years of meditation under my belt, I was nothing short of amazed ...." Read testimonials from people who have included these techniques into their daily life and are experiencing profound and lasting benefits.
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Goodbye Coffee Machine
Can a café be successful without a coffee machine? Paul O’Hara shows us how he has done this and is expanding the concept into other areas.
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Our choices do influence how we die
We will all die at some point, so how we die should be of profound interest to us … right? Let's start the conversation.
Death, Palliative care, Passing over, Appreciation, Ageing, Healthy living
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Weight Loss Tips
To assist you with feeling healthier and to be more vibrant and active, here are some of our favourite weight loss tips which present a way of living that can support you to re-connect to your body and build self-care into your life.
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Function, harmony and health
We are told that to be healthy we need to achieve a level of physical fitness, but even super-fit athletes get sick, so why are we placing value on our physical condition ahead of the quality and harmony that is needed to support our body?
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To exercise or exorcise, that is the question…
We all have some level of understanding what exercise is, even though it may be different one to another. But have you considered what is actually happening when you exercise and that it may be more than what you can physically see?
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Your body is a living experiment
Every choice we make impacts the body – experiment with your choices and feel the effects on your body. See yourself as a living experiment and have fun with it.
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Toasted sesame seed and herb salmon bites
Simple, quick and fun to make, this is a novel way to use salmon and a versatile recipe that can be used for canapés or as a delicious light salad.
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What is gluten?
With many people now asking “What is gluten?” this article explains what gluten is and outlines how our bodies can react to it.
Coeliac/celiac, Digestion, Gluten free, Nutrition, Well-being, Healthy living, Food science
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Lifestyle diseases (the way we live)
Lifestyle diseases account for 80% of all major chronic illness and disease. Is it possible there is a way to live that keeps us fit and healthy?
Self-love, Empowerment, Lifestyle diseases, Lifestyle, Healing, Death, Healthy living
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Does the way I live affect my sleep?
A discussion on how the way we live during the day affecting the quality of our sleep.
Sleep, Exhaustion, Sugar, Caffeine, Emotions, Fatigue, Insomnia, Healthy living
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Food Porn
Food Porn manipulates consumers on levels we’d be shocked at.
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Workplace Health and Safety: keeping it simple
Workplace health and safety starts with you and how you are caring for yourself. Simple changes in how you arrange your workspace to ‘fit’ you and the way you work can make a huge difference to your health and wellbeing.
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Exercise and Newton’s 3rd Law
Newton’s third law of motion, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” considers the measure of force that returns to our body in movement. What does this actually mean?
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How I quit smoking and found me
Today I am in my early 60’s and I have been smoke and alcohol free for seven years now, but the battle to quit smoking took me 16 years.
Addiction, Drugs, Emotions, Self-worth, Lifestyle, Healthy living
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Millions of dollars and still no cure for cancer
Millions of dollars and many decades of research have gone into finding a cure for cancer and yet we still have no answers, no solutions and no way of preventing this dreadful disease.
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Why do people meditate?
Are we getting the true point of meditating and what meditation is designed to actually offer us?
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Healthy lifestyle
We think of healthy lifestyle in order to lose weight as food and exercise choices – what if a truly healthy lifestyle is more about the quality of energy that we use to do things, rather than the things we do?
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The College Of Universal Medicine
From its inception, the College of Universal Medicine heralds a revolutionary new way for education and group work.
Ageless Wisdom, Education, Community, Livingness, Humanity, Lifestyle, Well-being, Healthy living
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Relief strategies – the failings of our mental health industry
Tanya Curtis explores the current failings of the mental health industry and the harm that relief-based strategies are having on our society. She offers a new way forward.
Alcohol, Drugs, Behaviour, Evidence-based, Humanity, Mental health, Healthy living
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Penelope Scheenhouwer – reflecting on her journey
Penelope Scheenhouwer’s inspiring story of how she changed her ideal about her body image and came to her true size.
Self-worth, Fitness, Ill health, Sickness, Healthy living, Body image
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Serge Benhayon – a real example of walking the talk
Discover how Serge, once a professional athlete, further developed his relationship with fitness, exercise and an inner-most connection.
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A student of our own body
The audio excerpt describes what it means to be a student of your own body: the best medicine is to create a way of being that lives the true you. You then become your own master at knowing and understanding your own body.
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6 things all men need to know about exhaustion and fatigue
Exhaustion and fatigue can deeply affect the way men live – here are 6 tips to combat it. It is okay to seek help and/or professional medical advice when you are feeling excessively tired or fatigued.
Exhaustion, Fatigue, Caffeine, Alcohol, Work life balance, Healthy diet, Healthy living
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Women, excessive tiredness and Christmas stress
How many women are left feeling exhausted after the month of December and how long does it take our bodies to recover?
Body awareness, Stress, Exhaustion, Raising children, Well-being, Healthy living
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Is change possible? Understanding the choices we make and why!
Have you ever wondered why we make choices that are not good for us? Is it possible there is more to making a choice than a simple yes or no?
Behaviour, Emotions, Feelings, Lifestyle, Over eating, Well-being, Awareness, Healthy living, Intelligence
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Care, relationships and postgraduate students: no ‘one size fits all’.
Education can be a cold and lonely place. Competing for higher marks relationships take a poor last place, leaving students feeling downbeat when they don’t achieve what their peers ‘achieve’.
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Understanding mental health from an esoteric perspective
Serge Benhayon speaks about mental health from an esoteric perspective
Hurt, Healing, Human body, Love, Mental health, Philosophy, Healthy living
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Exercising to lose weight – a personal story
Anne discovered that she could keep her weight down with excessive exercise, but at what cost to her body?
Body awareness, Weight-loss, Connection, Healthy living, Body image
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How hard is it to change?
Everyone wants to change, this article looks at the impulse and motivation to change and how to engage with change.
Acceptance, Awareness, Connection, Well-being, Gentle breath, Healthy living
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How To Lose Weight
What if how to lose weight stopped being the goal and it was replaced with a focus on the quality of energy that you are living every day? Is it possible there is a way to lose weight that is very different to what you think?
Connection, Conscious presence, Weight-loss, Weight, Healthy living
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Gut instinct – is it true or just your bugs talking?
Have you considered where our ‘gut feelings’ come from – where is their root, and how do they develop?
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Turn and face the change
Men are notorious for resisting change and having habitual behaviours that they do not want to let go of. Why is this?
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Exercise – it’s all in the movement
How much do we enjoy our exercise? Do we see it as a chore or is it something we actually look forward to every day?
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What is the Gentle Breath Meditation™?
The Gentle Breath Meditation™ can be done anywhere and is simple to introduce into the rhythm of daily life as a point of re-connecting, restoring inner harmony and as a balance for the external pressures of life.
Meditation, Connection, Breath, Gentleness, Stress, Anxiety, Healthy living
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The Gentle Breath Meditation: a tool for life
Re-connect to the deeply restful and rejuvenating stillness within and feel the fact that all of the stuff that goes on in life is not actually who you are. Remind yourself that you can simply BE and bring that to your everyday!
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The Goldilocks ratio of exercise
When you think about exercise are you filled with dread and overwhelm with memories of physical education and sport at school – or are you a complete exercise nut who is always genuinely in their active wear? When it comes to exercise both of these scenarios could be doing you harm.
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11th of November Remembrance Day, 100 years on, was their sacrifice worth it?
One hundred years on from the First World War ending, was the sacrifice of all those young men who died in the trenches in the most appalling conditions worth it? Is the world we currently have created a good testimony to their sacrifice? Do we have anything to feel proud of?
Conflict, Connection, Evolution, Harmony, Humanity, Healthy living
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Before and after: Carmel Reid – the weight just dropped off
Carmel’s story on how her weight just dropped off after changing the relationship with herself.
Weight, Diets, Exhaustion, Self-esteem, Livingness, Gluten free, Weight-loss, Healthy living
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Serge Benhayon on meditation
Serge Benhayon, the founder of The Gentle Breath Meditation reminds us that when we re-gather all of our parts together as one we have meditation. Taking this into our daily activity makes meditation an empowering way of life.
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Meditation, mindfulness, conscious presence – are these really the answers to a better life?
Can we continue to live the way we do and expect techniques and meditations to make us feel better and give us the life we have always dreamt of?
Meditation, Presence, Mindfulness, Conscious presence, Healthy living
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Taking a moment with the Gentle Breath Meditation
Have you ever felt like there aren’t enough hours in the day? Discover how a few minutes with the Gentle Breath Meditation created space and stillness in the busy lives of these people.
Meditation, Testimonials, Connection, Breath, Healthy living
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Benefits of the Gentle Breath Meditation
It’s quick, healthy, I get peace of mind, more space, less pressure, no more panic attacks, refreshed, centred, less stress, joyful… just some of the benefits these Gentle Breath meditators have shared.
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Gentle Breath Meditation tips for beginners
The Gentle Breath Meditation is very easy to do as a technique but initially you may wonder if you are doing it right or not – to help support you here are 3 tips that have worked for others.
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Is sugar really a poison?
Is sugar really a poison? Best answered by discovering what happens to you when you don’t have it for a while …
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Living with connection
If we only focus on the physical body we are missing a key ingredient in what it takes to be truly vital and well.
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Championing the myth of living longer
People are living longer. Do we consider how they are living and what quality of life they have in their final decades? Is it truly living if we are medicated, drugged and artificially sustaining life in a body that is carrying so much illness and disease?
Medicine, Health, Well-being, Ageing, Vitality, Healthy living
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‘All that glitters’ … design trends, latest fashion and our self-worth
Is it possible that we are actually caught in this culture or cycle of having the latest and the greatest, the newest and the fastest, the hottest & the sexiest and it’s not actually what we truly want – or who we truly are?
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Blogs about the Gentle Breath Meditation
Bloggers reveal how it was for them to start out with the meditations, the benefits they experienced in their daily lives, the beauty of re-connecting to their inner stillness and much more.
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International Coffee Day: October 1st
For International Coffee Day we provide a free audio that questions whether we are really being honest when we say “we love our coffee”.
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Fighting cancer – What if there is another element, a fundamental element that we have overlooked?
Everything is energy – is the one absolute truth that applies to everything in the world we live in, including illness and disease.
Cancer, Disease, Ill health, Sickness, Emotions, Death, Healthy living
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The identification of dealing drugs
Growing up, drugs were never really spoken about; they were considered bad and for those who did not achieve much in life. Yet among my extended family, drug use was commonplace.
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WARNING – Words could be damaging your health!
What if good is not good and better was bad? Suppose normal is harmful? What is truly good and what is truly healthy?
Ill health, Abuse, Corruption, Energy, Expression, Sickness, Livingness, Love, Reductionism, Soul, Spirit, Truth, Unimedpedia, Healthy living
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Developing self-care as part of health and well-being at work
We regularly see in the media, the HR press that well-being at work matters. This article introduces an aspect that is seldom written about in health and well-being at work - self-care at work.
Health, Absenteeism, Career, Well-being, Burnout, Healthy living
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Serge Benhayon on fitness, physical exercise and the gentle breath
Serge works 16-18 hours a day and with retirement not holding a single breath of intention he maintains that 'in order to serve in life we must be fit for life'.
Gentle breath, Lifestyle, Role models, Vitality, Yoga, Healthy living
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Can food and love co-exist?
The FDA of America has slapped Nashoba with a warning for its use of the word Love in its Food Products!
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How stimulants keep us away from feeling amazing all of the time
Do stimulants give us energy? Find out what stimulants, like sugar, coffee, alcohol, etc. really do to our body.
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Choosing our way out of depression
One person’s experience with depression — How they found their choices resulted in depletion and therefore depression, and how they made choices that supported them out of it.
Acceptance, Awareness, Depression, Self-love, Body awareness, Mental health, Healthy living
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Self acceptance – the path to changing overeating
Many of us spend our lives lost to ourselves until we finally arrive at the knowing that love is not ‘out there’, it’s within us and that no amount of food is enough to fill the ‘perpetual hunger’ for love.
Vitality, Feelings, Body awareness, Awareness, Eating disorder, Healthy living
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Let food be thy medicine – outdated quote or ageless wisdom?
How powerful are our food choices in influencing the health of our bodies?
Healthy diet, Medicine, Nutrition, Lifestyle diseases, Healthy living
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The benefits of the Gentle Breath Meditation
A simple and invaluable way to let go of the stress, anxiety and overwhelm that many of us experience at times, if not on a daily basis. It supports true vitality and well-being and re-connects you deeply back into your body.
Meditation, Gentleness, Presence, Self-empowerment, Healthy living
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Mag-fit-icence
Have you tried all types of exercise but struggled to find an exercise routine that works for you? Could it be that we are approaching exercise from the wrong angle?
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Exercising and movement from within
If movement is the key foundation to all activity, why then is not more importance given to the quality of the movement within and through the human body.
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Tomorrow never comes
Have you ever earnestly declared that this is the last packet of cigarettes, the last drink, the last block of chocolate and the last time you will overeat because tomorrow you will most definitely choose differently?
Body image, Diets, Healthy living, Livingness, Losing weight, Time
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The sleep deprived world
What happens during the hours we sleep? Is it the body, the so-called ‘meat suit’ we are in – our organs, blood, muscles – that is the beneficiary of the rest, or is there more to it?
