In today’s busy and hectic society many see sleep as a luxury rather than what it is – a necessity. More and more people are working overtime, and shift work trying to juggle a busy family life around their work. Along with this, it is not unusual for both parents to be working full time. The advent of our 24/7 society has pushed regular sleep to the side. Because of this, many men and women (and even children) wrongly consider sleep a waste of time. Sleep is an essential element of the human body, without it we cannot survive. Getting enough sleep is associate...
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Visualisation is the process of actively making pictures in your mind to create the outcome you desire. Visualisation and mental imagery are like mental movies. At a very simplistic level you may close your eyes and imagine your home, or the face of a particular friend. This is how we use it every day in so many ways—in fact in everything we do. Prayer is a form of mental imagery. The use of visual imagery can also be used in a very positive way to generate a picture of what you want in your life. You can use visualisation to create strong, positive mental images, which i...
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You are what you eat or—more accurately—you are what you digest, absorb and metabolise. There are an increasing number of diseases, disorders and irregularities that reduce the ability of the body to digest food, which may then impact absorption and, ultimately, metabolism. For thousands of years, physicians knew that the key to a healthy body and mind was healthy digestion. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, wrote on it extensively as has every physician through to modern times. It’s only during the past 50 years, with a predominance of the pharmaceutical...
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In the beginning there were healthy, whole foods and healthy lifestyles; people took responsibility for their own health. Now most of the world is dying from food-related illness. Half the world is dying from not enough food and the other half from too much nutrient-depleted, calorie-dense food. Times have changed and so has the way we need to look at food, nutrition and our health. Chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer are now the biggest killers in developed countries. The current medical model that focuses on treating, rather than preventi...
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