Regular Exercise, a sensible diet and staying away from nicotine are considered to be an essential part of a healthy lifestyle. However, this holds true only for those who also have friends. Lonely people are likely to have a shorter life expectancy. In fact, their life expectancy is that of heavy smokers. Research has revealed that the saliva and urine of people who feel lonely contain high levels of stress hormones, such as cortisol and noradrenaline.
Having friends has lots of advantages. On a physical level, it has a positive impact on the heart and blood vessels as well as on the immune system. Moreover, positive feelings can be contagious, as found out by researchers at the universities of San Diego and Harvard in the USA. "Those who are in the company of many contented and happy people will be happier, too. Good feelings seem to be a collective phenomenon and tend to spread out in the company of like-minded people." is the verdict of the researchers.
(BIO 06/07, 2011)
I am a German-trained Holistic Practitioner and Intuitive Life Coach. My clinic is located in Grove near Wantage and in Faringdon.
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Monday, 23 May 2011
From The Secret Daily Teachings
"You are receiving thousands of messages from the Universe every single day. Learn to become aware of this communication from the Universe, who is speaking to you and guiding you in every moment. There are no accidents and no coincidences. Every sign you notice, every word you hear spoken, every color, every scent, every sound, every event and situation is the Universe speaking to you, and you are the only one who knows their relevance to you, and what the communication is saying.
Use your eyes to see! Use your ears to listen! Use all of your senses, because you are receiving communication through them all!" Rhonda Byrne
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Monday, 2 May 2011
A Good Description Of Holistic Medicine ...
I am reading a superb book at the moment, with the title "It Must Be My Hormones" by Dr. Marion Gluck and Vicki Edgson (ISBN 978-0-718-15430-1 by Penguin). This is a short chapter from the beginning of the book which describes very well the term "Heilpraktiker" which is the qualification I earned in Germany before coming to England.
"Opening my eyes - As a young doctor in Germany I would occasionally trade the stress and excitement of the emergency room for the plodding predictability of a GP's office where I would work as a locum. It was during this time that I became aware of the role of Heilpraktiker. These German healers-cum-naturopaths where not, unlike their colleagues in other developed countries, marvelled at and then belittled by patients as just another breed of strange fish in the medical sea. On the contrary, many German patients would see their Heilpraktiker even before they'd see their GP.
The fact that German patients regularly visited their naturopath didn't mean that they shunned conventional doctors, or that they blindly placed their faith in that one form of treatment. It just meant that they sought what they considered to be a more natural and less invasive solution. Naturopathy to them was not a replacement for conventional medicine as such, but rather provided another perspective on it.
By this time, I'd been exposed to the hospital environment long enough to become familiar with some of conventional medicine's biggest shortcomings. My first experiences of being a doctor were the medical profession's overly black-and-white approaches to decidedly grey problems. It began to irk me the way body parts were treated in isolation, with no consideration of the effects on other parts, as if they were all chopped up and organised neatly on a doctor's desk. Thus, curious and already somewhat disillusioned with the medical franchise as it was, I paid a great deal of attention to what those naturopaths were up to.
What I found was something that provided a fantastic complement to conventional medicine - a whole bunch of issues would be addressed while adding a pinch of that which is often sorely lacking in medicine: common sense. I had found myself on the path to integrative and holistic medicine.
This type of medicine is labelled 'integrative' because it feeds on the largest possible pool of medical knowledge. It combines the relatively new techniques of orthodox Western medicine with those of homoeopathy or traditional Chinese medicine, whose proven efficacy does not come from wildly expensive, large-scale drug-company-funded studies but from thousands of years of implementation and success. And it's called holistic because it considers the effects of treatments in terms of the entire body, rather than the body's isolated parts."
"Opening my eyes - As a young doctor in Germany I would occasionally trade the stress and excitement of the emergency room for the plodding predictability of a GP's office where I would work as a locum. It was during this time that I became aware of the role of Heilpraktiker. These German healers-cum-naturopaths where not, unlike their colleagues in other developed countries, marvelled at and then belittled by patients as just another breed of strange fish in the medical sea. On the contrary, many German patients would see their Heilpraktiker even before they'd see their GP.
The fact that German patients regularly visited their naturopath didn't mean that they shunned conventional doctors, or that they blindly placed their faith in that one form of treatment. It just meant that they sought what they considered to be a more natural and less invasive solution. Naturopathy to them was not a replacement for conventional medicine as such, but rather provided another perspective on it.
By this time, I'd been exposed to the hospital environment long enough to become familiar with some of conventional medicine's biggest shortcomings. My first experiences of being a doctor were the medical profession's overly black-and-white approaches to decidedly grey problems. It began to irk me the way body parts were treated in isolation, with no consideration of the effects on other parts, as if they were all chopped up and organised neatly on a doctor's desk. Thus, curious and already somewhat disillusioned with the medical franchise as it was, I paid a great deal of attention to what those naturopaths were up to.
What I found was something that provided a fantastic complement to conventional medicine - a whole bunch of issues would be addressed while adding a pinch of that which is often sorely lacking in medicine: common sense. I had found myself on the path to integrative and holistic medicine.
This type of medicine is labelled 'integrative' because it feeds on the largest possible pool of medical knowledge. It combines the relatively new techniques of orthodox Western medicine with those of homoeopathy or traditional Chinese medicine, whose proven efficacy does not come from wildly expensive, large-scale drug-company-funded studies but from thousands of years of implementation and success. And it's called holistic because it considers the effects of treatments in terms of the entire body, rather than the body's isolated parts."
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Lip Herpes – Plant Remedy is worth a try
It starts with a slight tingle – very often you wake up in the morning with a big blister on your lip. The Herpes Virus which has been dormant in your body has been activated and causes swelling and blistering on the lips, and very often swollen lymph glands in the lower jaw area. Several people here in England who have been “plagued“ by Herpes Simplex or cold sores for long years have benefited from a purely herbal remedy based on the principles of Spagyrics, an ancient therapy form which can be traced back to the Swiss healer and scientist Paracelsus. The course of treatment consists of two different remedies in liquid form, which complement each other and are designed to kill the dormant Herpes virus in the human body.
Spagyric remedies have been used effectively in Germany, Switzerland and Austria for a long time, but unfortunately are not acknowledged as a drug here in England.
Monday, 11 April 2011
Healthy Hair Needs Silica
Silica is necessary for the re-building of all connective tissue, including hair, skin and nails. Silica is silicon in the form of Silicon dioxide, or SiO2. Appearing naturally as quartz, it is also the principal component of glass and sand. Silica is also a very common component of our bodies and is contained in all of our connective tissues such as cartilage and tendons, nails, hair, muscle tissue and bone. Complexion and shiny hair depend upon silica which, apart from its other properties, helps our skin and hair to retain moisture and keep looking young. A study carried out by the Clinical Centre in Karlsruhe/Germany has revealed the following result: Participants who had brittle and thin hair were given one capsule containing 340mg silica daily. After six months, the condition of their hair had improved considerably. This was proven by measuring the swelling behaviour and the thickness of the hair, both of which had improved. Also, the participants found that their hair looked more beautiful.
Dermatologists assume that silica increases the contents of a certain amino acid in the scalp, which raises the collagen level in the hairs.
Dermatologists assume that silica increases the contents of a certain amino acid in the scalp, which raises the collagen level in the hairs.
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