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Archive for July, 2010

The greatest antidote to cancer is to be fully engaged in living the life you came here to live. When we actively engage in a fulfilling life and take care of ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually then we create the ideal physiology in which our health can be maintained or regained. Over the past [...]

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This ritual has developed out of our work in helping children deal with challenging, sad or distressing news. We have found it to be a wonderful blessing for children and a comfort for their parents. You can take as long or as little time with this ritual as seems appropriate for the age of the [...]

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My aim here is to stimulate thought and reflection rather than have a view point of my own. What are your thoughts? Most of this is adapted from Dr. Judith Orloff’s new book “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life” (Harmony Books, 2009) which I breezed through earlier this year online. [...]

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For me, the idea of ‘forgiveness’  brings me a sense of peace and release in the centre of my soul as I let go resentment and invite love and acceptance in, however it also evokes a feeling of regret for all the people I have not loved and for the times I have indulged in [...]

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6am. Cold, grey, drizzly morning. One lone surfer.  I wonder, what drives him to get up before the sun and pull on a wetsuit and plunge into the cooling sea? He changes at the car, runs to the shore, and plunges in – no hesitation, in seconds he is paddling like mad.  And for what? [...]

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There has never been a time in history where children are so subjected to information about and pictures of, suffering. Some families are eating dinner while there are images of great suffering on the television news and both print media and radio news can conjure up pictures that children may find anxiety provoking. Children can [...]

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As a therapist, I often work with women who are dealing with body image and issues relating to health, and in particular their body weight. I am acutely aware that women of all shape and size struggle with creating and maintaining their ‘ideal body’ which is normally not the one in which they currently live. [...]

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I watched a movie the other day.  One character laments that she doesn’t understand poetry, that she needs to ‘work it out’.   The poet responds “Poetry needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving into a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore.  It’s to be in the lake.  It is to [...]

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