It’s impossible to overstate the benefits of relaxation in mental health. The human brain is a muscle. It needs time to rest from its daily exertion, process the flood of stimuli bombarding its every moment, and integrate new information into your mental schema.
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Life can be overwhelming and sometimes it is hard to know where to begin when it comes to regaining your energy, reducing stress and just feeling more like yourself. To make the journey towards feeling energised more simple, we have broken it down into three small things you can do without taking big leaps or dramatically changing everything all in one go. These are things you can gradually build up to, without the need for stress.
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Besides breathing and sleeping, eating is life’s most vital activity. Food gives us energy, and allows us to think, move and prosper. Yet digestive issues, chronic disease and intestinal disturbances are increasingly common.
So why do so few of us feel like we are prospering?
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Stress: A pesky little word that gets tossed around a great deal in modern day life. We stress about things; we feel stressed by commitments; and people or situations stress us out! So do you understand stress, and more importantly, how it affects your body?
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For 18 years as I struggled through Bulimia Nervosa, meditation proved useful in picking up the pieces. It gave me hope and confidence that one day I would make it through and be living the life I was creating in my mind – once I overcame the underlying beliefs that kept me stuck.It took many years to challenge and change the negative mental programming and take responsibility for my own thoughts, but meditation was instrumental in giving me the time and space I needed to explore, sit, breathe and listen – to find my own authentic voice. Meditation comforted me through many dark times of feeling rejected, vulnerable, struggling with self-worth and losing my identity in the desire to please others.
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Now over 30 years ago I discovered meditation, originally to aid in the stress and struggles of being a sensitive
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