Another Reason to Kick the Habit

Smoking is bad for the prostate gland. In the USA, a long-term study was carried out with 5400 employees of the public health sector over a period of 22 years. During the time of the study, 1630 of the researched persons died, a third of them from prostate cancer. Men who smoked carried a higher risk to die from prostate cancer or to suffer a relapse by 61 per cent, the magazine "Medical Tribune" reports. Very heavy smokers had an even higher risk of dying from prostate cancer by 82 per cent.
There are ways to help you stop smoking - hypnotherapy and acupuncture have proven helpful in most cases.
I offer a free assessment and info session if you would like to discuss treatment options. Please contact groveclinicoxon@gmail.com for an appointment.

There is always a way out ...

I found this lovely poem on the internet and would like to share it with you.

"There is always a way out:
Sometimes you have to end something
to be able to start something new.
Sometimes you have to demolish something
to be able to build something new.

Sometimes you have to let go of something
to receive something new.
There is always a way.
I can't, I don't want to.
I can't carry on like this.
It is possible, I can, I want to -
because I have tried.

(Udo Hahn)

Do you feel stuck?

Times are hard for many of us. We may have lost faith in our lives and feel that life has given us a load too heavy for us to carry. There are certain techniques, like Emotional Freedom Technique or Psychological Kinesiology which can help us getting out of the fog and to see the light at the end of the tunnel again. I am planning to do a workshop for a group of people in my premises in Grove nr. Wantage in Oxfordshire, sometime this autumn. If you are interested, please let me know and we try to get a group together.
Please contact me at contact@monikabecker.co.uk

"Letting Go"

Somebody posted this wonderful poem on a German facebook page the other day. Unfortunately, I didn''t get their name, but I took the freedom to translate it to be able to share it with my English-speaking friends.

"Letting Go

Sooner or later you’ll get to a point when you realize that you don’t need to struggle anymore, because it won’t take you any further.

You understand that there is nothing more you can or must do.

You can’t force anything; if you understand that, at first everything will collapse back upon itself, and then there is silence.

And then, suddenly, there will be lightness and quiet within you.

You begin to let go of everything you were holding on to, of hopes, people, things from your past, which you didn’t want to, or couldn’t accept the way they were.

You understand that you can’t change it any more, no matter how much you believe in it, no matter how much you wish for it to happen. No matter how much you fight for it. No matter how much it hurts.

What must be, will be. Whatever wants to happen, will happen. What is supposed to be with you will stay or will go of its own free will.

Sooner or later the pain and fear of letting go will be over.

This is when you will gradually liberate yourself from fears, feelings of guilt and constraints – from everything that holds YOU back.

And you go your way; you pack your suitcase with what’s left: a suitcase full of experience, insight and memories.

Your path lies ahead, you don’t see it yet, but you feel the time has come.

You start again – with the first step!"

Namaste x

Namaste - gold-plated OM signs for Yogis

Namaste - gold-plated OM signs for Yogis

COLOUR ENERGY – No Life Without Light

We, the average modern human, spend an average of approximately 85 per cent of our lives in “sun-blocked” rooms, shut away from daylight. As we gain the majority of our life energy from sun light with its different colours, many people feel a certain lack of energy, mainly in the dark and gloomy winter months.

We all know the influence of colours in our lives – the uplifting yellow of a field of sunflowers, the calming green of the meadows in spring, we see “red” when we are angry and we see through “pink glasses” when we are in love.

Many therapists all over the world have been using colour therapy for thousands of years, knowing that body and mind react to colours in certain ways, the influence of light on hormones and metabolism. In ancient China, acupuncture and colour healing were closely related. Their Wise Men used light and colours as part of their healing methods, and so did their colleagues in ancient Greece and Persia.

Modern researchers found that certain cells in our bodies have so-called colour receptors and react on the influence of colours. The more so, as our sense of vision is directly connected with the autonomous nervous system. Colour therapy can have a healing effect on different physical problems and mental disharmonies.

A modern way to bring more light into our lives is to wear colour therapy glasses. The glasses are available in seven colours, derived from the spectrum of a rainbow, plus the colours Indigo and Magenta.

Patients who have already tried them can tell about the balancing effect of blue whenever they are angry or yellow when they are sad. Students praise the effect of orange during hard times of study, and even sufferers from allergies and hay fever could find relieve with turquoise. Those who suffer from dyslexia showed a substantial improvement when they wear the suitable “therapeutic colour” during daily reading exercises.

To combine the useful with the practical, wear the glasses during all your outdoor activities, sport, walking the dog etc. (USE ONLY “YELLOW” FOR DRIVING!)

La vie en rose…

For a trial session please contact groveclinicoxon.com