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Could You Have a Barrier to Embracing Self Care?

Flower Essences, health and wellbeing, How to calm down, insomnia, Meditation, Reiki, sleep problems, stress management, womens issues

Self Care is all very well, but what if you don’t feel safe? In 1943 Abraham Maslow published a paper in Psychological Review entitled ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’. It set out how humans function and grow through having basic needs met in their lives. He...

Why Should You Value Calmness?

female entreprenuers, Flower Essences, health and wellbeing, How to calm down, Meditation, Reiki, stress management, womens issues

Would you like to bring more peace, calmness and balance into your life? The life of an average Western woman has changed so much in the past 40 years and most of it for the better. But do you ever feel that your new freedom came at a cost? The cost of being busy all...

Do Not Worry…..Just for Today: using the Reiki Precepts in daily life

Flower Essences, forgiveness, health and wellbeing, How to calm down, Reiki, stress management

I’ve been quiet for a while as I have just moved to South Shields in Tyneside. It’s an amazing place at the edge of the land and sea where the world comes and goes past my window. I walk round the corner to a long sandy beach where I can watch the birds...

Ditch The Drama Queen

Flower Essences, forgiveness, health and wellbeing, How to calm down, Meditation, Reiki, stress management, Therapists, time management, womens issues

We all know her, don’t we- that woman who spends her life lurching from one crisis to another, making dramatic exits, slamming doors, driving off into the night…. We put up with it- it’s her hormones, it’s her time of the month, it’s her...

Should you be worried about the ‘Nocebo Effect’?

Flower Essences, health and wellbeing, Meditation, Reiki, stress management, Therapists, womens issues

We are all familiar with the Placebo Effect, the idea that something will make you feel better if you believe it will. Indeed one of the accusations of sceptics about complementary therapies is that they are ‘merely’ acting as a placebo. But the placebo...

Are You Practicing Mind Control?

Flower Essences, health and wellbeing, How to calm down, Meditation, Reiki, stress management, womens issues

One of the main causes of stress in the modern world is that we can’t switch off our minds. We spend all day doing tasks that we are not fully engaged with because our minds are elsewhere- on our shopping list, plans for tomorrow or worrying about something that...

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Could You Have a Barrier to Embracing Self Care?

Why Should You Value Calmness?

Do Not Worry…..Just for Today: using the Reiki Precepts in daily life

Ditch The Drama Queen

Should you be worried about the ‘Nocebo Effect’?

Are You Practicing Mind Control?

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