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  1. Probiotics:The missing link between health and disease

    Intestinal dysbiosis – unbalanced intestinal bacterial flora – may be the link between food and lifestyle and its impact upon health and disease.more

  2. Problems Affecting Muscles and Joints

    Mary Martin demonstrates how Reflexology can be used to treat problems affecting muscles and joints.more

  3. Procrastination: An NLP Strategy for ‘Doing it Now!’

    When you find simple strategies for doing things that work well, do you collect and incorporate them into your everyday life or simply forget them? Learn how you can collect other ...more

  4. Professional Acronyms Alphabet Soup

    ...he came in for a session and while discussing the course material he thanked me for taking the time during the class to continually explain the multitude of acronyms...A few thou...more

  5. Professional Advice for Complementary Practitioners

    In the light of increasing scrutiny of alternative and complementary medicine by the general public, the legal and medical professions, and the media, this article offers practical...more

  6. Profound Effect of Macrobiotic Diet upon Psoriasis and Stress-Related Skin Conditions

    This Case Study by Philippa Brook shows how following a macrobiotic diet can have dramatic effects on the body, both internally and externally.more

  7. Progressive Yoga: Practice Tailored to the Individual.

    The point of yoga, according to the author, is to work with one's own body, with the awareness that you are an individual with different needs from the next person....and that ev...more

  8. Prolapse, Ptosis And Posture

    Francoise Mezieres was fond of saying "what is beautiful functions well". Good shape is not only a beauty asset; it is also an important factor of health.more

  9. Promising Cancer Treatments that Target Our Immune System - Part 1

    The ‘War on Cancer’ commonly includes radical surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, procedures which often lead to the death of patients. Advances in out-of-the-box medical procedure...more

  10. Promoting Healthy Posture for Wheelchair Users

    The provision of an appropriate and supportive wheelchair will enable good posture with head, spinal and trunk support and pelvic alignment. This is essential for regular or permane...more

  11. Properties and Uses of Carrier Oils

    The importance of carrier oils beyond their role as dilutants is often overlooked, maintains Doreen Wallace. Many of them, she says, are full of valuable nutrients.more

  12. Properties of Good Quality Essential Oils

    The author offers useful advice on how to choose a good quality, unadulterated oil by examining the Latin names given, specific components listed, country of origin, part of the pl...more

  13. Proprioception - Our Body Position Sense

    In medical schools and textbooks, proprioception is defined as 'body position sense' - the ability to know where our body is at all times. The ultimate purpose of proprioception i...more

  14. Prostate Cancer - Natural Prevention Strategies and Information for Females

    Men tend to ignore health problems until it is too late. Women are far more likely to visit a doctor when they are sick, whilst men wait and hope that their symptoms disappear. Thi...more

  15. Prostate Problems and Elevated Oestrogen

    This article looks at prostate problems and the release of the hormone oestrogen, which is produced in small quantities in men, as a by-product of the testosterone conversion proce...more

  16. Protecting the Energy Body

    This article warns of the potential damage that inappropriate energy work can cause to our energy body, through the inexperience, ignorance or selfish motives of healers and energy...more

  17. Protecting the Integrity of the Metamorphic Technique®

    When the caterpillar form dies as the caterpillar, energy is released, this energy, this power is also consciousness; there is then communication between what has been released and...more

  18. Prunella vulgaris: Self-heal - Eastern and Western Perspectives

    Self-heal is a pretty member of the Lamiaceae family which grows all over Britain and Europe in pastures, woods and clearings and is loved by beesmore

  19. Psoriasis

    One of the cruelest things about the skin condition, psoriasis, is that it can go on to cause a particularly destructive form of arthritis, known as "psoriatic arthropathy".more

  20. Psoriasis and Neem My Own Personal Story

    My own experience with Neem has been nothing short of miraculous. Growing up in Northern part of Germany ‘country style’ I quickly developed a love for the bounty of Mother Nature, ...more

  21. Psychic Meets Science

    Without LIGHT, there would be no life as we know it today. Light contains information, energy, frequency, vibration, colour, sound and matter. We transmit light waves, and we rece...more

  22. Psychocreative Fasting and The Art of Inner Medicine

    It isn’t everyone who will prescribe a fast for a person with PMT, diabetes, a bad heart, or cancer, still less perhaps someone with an eating disorder. Most people will tend to th...more

  23. Psychological Cloning

    Dolly the smiling sheep has her fetching photo on the front page of almost every newspaper I have seen recently, and the usual media pundits are discussing cloning everywhere I loo...more

  24. Psychoneuroimmunology and NLP

    The author explains the required paradigm shift that is needed to bridge the divide between science/allopathic medicine and the holistic, mind-body approach to health, highlighti...more

  25. Psychophonetics - Psychotherapy as In-depth Coaching for Personal Transformation

    This article focuses on Psychophonetics, a combination developed from coaching and psychotherapy – in-depth coaching for personal transformation and change. The author shares his j...more

  26. Psychosomatic Disorders and Hypnotherapy

    At age eighteen I left school and joined The Manchester Royal Infirmary to train as a nurse. I wanted to be involved in curing suffering. Observing many horrific illnesses in the wa...more

  27. Psychosomatic Illness (Somatoform Disorders)

    The term ‘psychosomatic’ is often misunderstood to convey an ‘it’s all in the mind’ pejorative slant. This overlooks the fact that whatever the illness, the symptoms are real and ma...more

  28. Psychotherapy and Bodywork

    This month's column will be a special one, written by me and a friend and colleague who works in the related field of psychotherapy – Dr Sheldon Litt. Dr Litt trained with the foun...more

  29. Psychotherapy as a Humane Discipline (A paradigm for therapists)

    Many psychotherapists are uncertain about their values and confused about the general values of psychotherapy.more

  30. PTSD, Shock and Trauma - The Role of Flower Essences

    Post-traumatic Stress disorder, is by it very nature insidious and is usually the result of the after effects of shock and stress, traumatic which can if left unchecked have a deva...more

  31. Pure Water Aquapax Evolution

    The human body is mostly made of water and your body absolutely relies on water to function properly. Yet, how many of us are as discerning of the ‘natural’ quality of the water we ...more

  32. Putting Your Back into IT

    This column focuses on correct posture and the ‘forward head’ problem which the author describes as the 21st century posture phenomena, due to the inordinate amount of time spent a...more

  33. Pycnogenol - Nature's Most Powerful Antioxidant

    This column discusses free radicals and the super antioxidant Pycnogenol, a natural extract from the bark of French maritime pine trees, which is scientifically proven to have a pr...more

  34. Pyrroluria - Vitamin B6 and Zinc Deficiency

    Paula had had three miscarriages, very widely spaced periods, felt depressed, was nauseous in the mornings and suffered indigestion and bloating. She had also suffered from anore...more

  35. Pythagoras' musical - therapeutical treatment

    Music and sound in the ancient Indian system of Ayurveda are essential for balancing the functioning of the doshas (representing the principles of creation, preservation and destru...more

  36. Q10 - The Provider of Life

    This column focuses on Ubiquinone Q10, a naturally occurring substance and a necessary part of the cells’ energy metabolism, without which the cells cannot produce the energy that ...more

  37. Qi Gong - Tui Na

    Rosey Grandage is an experienced practitioner of Chinese medicine who specialises in Qi Gong and Tui Na. Wrio Russell asks her to demystify this element of Chinese medicine and to ...more

  38. Qigong for Optimum Health

    The author explains that Qigong therapy has been proven to cure disease and preserve health. However, there is no unified standard definition of the practice and is still a content...more

  39. Qigong Transformation

    Anne Wharton was only 43 years old, but she felt as if she was dying, conventional medicine had failed to diagnose the symptoms of intense neck pain, numbness and blackouts, suffer...more

  40. Question & Answer

    Goodman: It has been a pleasure to hear that everyone is individual and there isn't a magic formula that is going to work for everyone, and I hope we all take this away with us. Ann...more

  41. Question & Answer Dr David Smallbone, Dr Judy Griffin and Beth MacEoin field questions from the audience.

    Goodman: There are a few things that I would like to know; perhaps it will be expanded at the last one at the end of the day. This is the whole definition of oestrogenic and progest...more

  42. Question & Answer Dr John Lee, Dr Shirley Bond, Dr David Smallbone, Dr Judy Griffin, Beth MacEoin and Leslie Kenton field questions from the audience

    Question & Answer: Dr John Lee, Dr Shirley Bond, Dr David Smallbone, Dr Judy Griffin, Beth MacEoin and Leslie Kenton field questions from the audience in this, the final questi...more

  43. Quinton Marine Plasma - Medical and Nutritional Applications

    This article explains the Quinton Marine Plasma QMP), its medical and nutritional applications and why it could be considered the ideal nutritional treatment and supplement capable...more

  44. QXCI Bioresonance Therapy

    There are 'subtle-energy fields' within and around the body, as described by Dr Richard Gerber MD in his book Vibrational Medicine[1], which play an integral part in the total func...more

  45. R-E-S-P-E-C-T - Strategies for Defusing Anger

    Deeper inside your brain resides the limbic system. This more ancient portion of the brain, the product of millions of years of evolution, directs our impulses and emotions, and hou...more

  46. Radiometric Thermal Diagnostics and Dielectric Resonance Management Techniques

    We emit electromagnetic waves, which are undetectable by ourselves, conventional photography or video. It takes very sophisticated and finely calibrated radiometric apparatus to de...more

  47. Radionics in the IT Era

    Major Smith is the founder of the Maperton Trust and the Radionics and Radiesthesia Trust. Radionics, a diagnostic system using energy, was developed in the 1920s by Dr Albert Abra...more

  48. Radionics, The Aura and the Development of Pimat: The Energy Regenerator

    Radionics is a method of distance healing, using specially designed instruments and the ESP factor, known as ‘the radiesthetic faculty’. As a science, it is concerned with the ‘ene...more

  49. Raining Cats and Dogs - How Pets can Improve your Mental Health

    As a society we are pretty confused about mental health. For a long time it was mostly neglected because it was intangible and internal.more

  50. Raising a Vegan Adolescent

    When children hit the teenage phase in their lives, parents and carers often report a host of changes. These could include a change in personal hygiene, temperament and most distres...more

  51. Raising Active Kids: Practical Tips for Busy Parents

    Raising active children these days has become like a juggling act senior, at least in a fast pace world where parents will be running around to work, to home, etcetera. There are sc...more

  52. Rasayana: The Ayurvedic Path to Rejuvenation

    This column focuses on the ancient science of rejuvenation known as Rasayana, one of the eight branches of Ayurveda. There are many Rasayana herbs and foods, but for them to achie...more

  53. Rationale for Mushroom Nutrition Supplementation in Neurodegenerative Conditions*

    The effects of edible mushrooms is an area of increasing interest associated with health benefits in a number of pathologies, mostly associated with oxidative stress and free-radica...more

  54. Raw Food Diet for Health

    Before I realised the actual importance of raw vegetable food, my attitude was exactly the same as that of other doctors – to treat the symptoms of the disease without thinking...more

  55. Raw Food to Feel Healthier, Happier and More Vibrant

    The author, ‘a passionate health-seeker’, writes an exposition of the advantages of a raw food diet. We are closely related to primates who live healthily on raw food; uncooked foo...more

  56. Raw Food, Longevity and Weight Loss

    This article focuses on the benefits of raw food diet, which according to the author can prolong one’s life and also help with weight loss. Raw food diet also offers freedom from a...more

  57. Raw Fooders

    ‘Raw fooders’ believe that humans are naturally and biologically raw plant eaters, as expounded by experts on raw food nutrition such as David Wolfe and Edward Howell.more

  58. Raw Foodism

    Most people live on an omnivorous diet - that is, anything that it is possible to chew up and swallow and live long enough to tell about it, they will eat. But for one reason or ...more

  59. Raw Foods

    There have been many advocates of raw food diets dating back from the Essenes, a monastic sect at the time of Christ to Dr Max Gerson, founder of the Gerson Institute, and Leslie...more

  60. Re-integrate Patterns of Overwhelm, Trauma and Emotional Holding

    Following on from my last article Trauma, Emotion and Energy, I want to explore how to assist a client to feel resourced in order to facilitate the emergence and re-integration of p...more

  61. Reading and Misreading the Body

    Therapists, whether they focus on the physical mental or spiritual can only be readily certain about the physical aspects of their clients; the body never lies.more

  62. Reading and Misreading the Body (part 2)

    In my previous column I suggested there are too many pitfalls (at least for me) to make informed judgements about a client's psychological condition or spiritual state from their p...more

  63. Reading the Body’s Energy Field for Back Pain: Your Built-in Scanner You Hardly Use

    I've only realized in recent years that I've spent the past 30 years as an alternative practitioner working with one hand tied behind my back! I'm talking about the ability of the ...more

  64. Real Food For Real Health and How ‘Stress’ Affects Both

    Some people consider real food to be the best quality produce that can be bought from a supermarket, small food outlet / local farm, grown organically, grown in the garden or even ...more

  65. Realaxation® - Method Created by Leon Eeman, Revisited

    We often hear people saying “Just relax!” Quite right! Of course you know that you should relax, but has anyone ever told you how to do so, or even why? Probably not!more

  66. Reaping the Bounties of Autumn

    In this Expert Column the author offers some comforting solutions from garden blooms of fruits and herbs to please the senses as the days get shorter and cooler. She says those wit...more

  67. Rebalancing: The Art of Transforming a Successful Yoga Instructor's Life and Career

    Rachel Krentzman, had a thriving Yoga and Physical Therapy practice in a light filled studio located in the lovely Bird Rock section of La Jolla California. Rachel had met every go...more

  68. Rebirthing

    Rebirthing is a healing process that engages with the mind, the body and the spirit to cleanse away toxic patterns of being and facilitate new, healthy and fulfilling goals and cho...more

  69. Rebirthing/Self Transformational Breathing

    Rebirthing is a powerful therapy that creates a deep sense of renewal within us by allowing us get in touch with our inner child through breath work. The technique involves concent...more

  70. Recipes For Health And Beauty Using Essential Oils

    Edited extract from The Aromatherapy Kitchen by Nicola Jenkins. This feature shows you how to make a wide selection of stimulating and soothing products for cleansing, toning and m...more

  71. Recognizing Ageing as a Disease

    Imagine a world where no one aged by default, except for in rare instances. Standing out in a crowd of the eternally young and healthy is an unfortunate soul; shuffling along with a...more

  72. Recognizing Thinking Styles: George Soros 'Big Pic'

    Recognizing someone’s successful thinking style allows you to take that person’s habitual thinking patterns and make them your own. If you are stuck, or need bigger or better solut...more

  73. Reconnecting with the Earth's Healing Heart-Beat

    Take off your shoes and dance barefoot on the earth. Recent studies show that doing this for as little as 30 minutes a day can radically improve your health. Look at these two ima...more

  74. Reconnecting with the Pelvis. Advice from the Ancestors

    I believe that a paradigm shift to an holistic world view is taking place. This may be hard to reconcile with the actions to contain SARS Co-V-2 that seems to reprise the battle aga...more

  75. Recovery from a Broken Neck

    This is a story of profound healing. I left home on a bright, sunny, summer's day to return home two weeks later. In that time I had been paralysed, injured, shocked, traumatized, ...more

  76. Recovery from a Broken Neck - Update

    This article is an update of Marie's account of a car accident in which she broke her neck and spinal cord. Her story was published in Positive Health in 2000 with the title "'Reco...more

  77. Recovery from Arthritis with the Margaret Hills' Diet

    The author describes her suffering as she began to have symptoms of arthritis – swollen and painful joints –  following a winter of frequent bouts of bronchitis. Gout was diagnosed...more

  78. Recovery from CFS / ME

    The author begins with an overview of the rushed pace of life she used to lead - running her own business, involved in Green politics and studying for a Masters Degree. "It was all...more

  79. Recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)

    The author describes a ‘devastating’ illness, which began with recurrent ear infections, vertigo, and pain in her jaw. She began to have eye problems, then severe pains running fro...more

  80. Recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Fibromyalgia

    The following data demonstrates how patient, Hannah Gay, eliminated almost 100% of her symptoms associated with ME/CFS with only 7 months of treatment. Hannah was lucky that she dis...more

  81. Recovery from Colon Cancer - Diet, Herbs, Detoxification and Cellular Regeneration

    Teresa Tsalaky looks at the story of David Walker, who recovered from colon cancer having been told that he only had three to five years to live. Walker began chemotherapy but suff...more

  82. Recovery from Fibromyalgia; CFS, Fibromyalgia & Arthritis Patient Update

    For the last 13 months, I have been a patient of Dr Amir. I have a retrognathic jaw, which he has been working to improve. I contacted him because I thought he could help me with my...more

  83. Recovery from ME, Fibromyalgia and Depression with the Lightning Process

    The author describes her descent into despair as a result of all the losses incurred as her ME/Fibromyalgia relapses meant leaving work, diminishing finances, strain on her marriage...more

  84. Rediscovering Your Own Unique Reality

    In this article, Regan Duggan shows us how to put aside the worldview created for us by the experiences of our parents, teachers, partners, etc., and recreate our own unique realit...more

  85. Reflection from the Soul... Only A Visitor

    Let me ask you a question ... If you go on vacation to a small exotic island, reclining in a deck chair, on a crystalline white beach, would you be feeling contended and happy. Sill...more

  86. Reflections on Meditation - Personal Thoughts on an Enigmatic Subject

    Over the course of the last fifty years or so the term ‘meditation’ has come to mean two distinct things. On the one hand there is the traditional concept of meditation being an exe...more

  87. Reflective Practice - A Magic Mirror on Life

    This article was inspired by a fortune cookie of all things, in which it said, “reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting”. Now I have always been a huge advocate ...more

  88. Reflex Reactions - Our Body's Rapid Defence Mechanism

    This article draws our attention away from consideration of such things as immune system functioning, genetics, nutrition, and the effects of stress, inviting us to think about the...more

  89. Reflexology - A Second Look

    This second look at reflexology follows the article in issue 9 of Positive Health and aims to enlarge upon the theory and practical application of reflexology.more

  90. Reflexology - Caring for Older People

    Reflexology is suitable for older people, as it helps circulation, normalizes bodily functions and can aid detoxification. It is easily accessible, as only the shoes need to be rem...more

  91. Reflexology and Breathing Techniques for Respiratory Issues

    During the winter months many people will succumb to coughs and colds and, although the initial acute symptoms may disappear quite quickly, a person can be left with a residual tic...more

  92. Reflexology and Mental Illness

    Awareness of mental health issues has increased greatly over the recent years, which means that those suffering in silence have an increasing support system, gradually reducing the ...more

  93. Reflexology and Shoulder Issues

    Shoulder problems are some of the most common conditions that people present to complementary practitioners and medical doctors. Many people complain of muscular tightness around th...more

  94. Reflexology and Trauma

    Using case examples, Mary Martin illustrates how reflexology can assist in post-operative care by speeding up recovery, healing scar tissue and alleviating long-standing post-opera...more

  95. Reflexology Around the World

    An expert's roundup of international reflexology practices, by the chairperson of the Reflexologists Society and president of the International Council of Reflexologists.more

  96. Reflexology as a Diagnostic Tool

    According to the author, who also helped found the Association of Reflexologists in 1984, many patients consult her because other methods of treatment have proved unsatisfactory....more

  97. Reflexology can Help Sleep Issues

    Reflexology has always been considered to be a particularly relaxing and pleasant therapy as well as being very therapeutic in supporting specific conditions. Many reflexologists of...more

  98. Reflexology for a stress-free Christmas

    Reflexology is a gentle, non-invasive therapy, deeply relaxing and restoring and a great way to reduce stress and tension.more

  99. Reflexology for Children and Babies

    Many parents seek out complementary therapies to help their children when they suffer minor ailments; reflexology is particularly helpful, as it is gentle and non-invasive as only t...more

  100. Reflexology for skin disorders

    The skin problems that a reflexologist may come into contact with include: eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis, acne, urticaria, seborrhoea, shingles, erythema and ringworm.more

  101. Reflexology for Stroke

    Stroke is a major cause of disability and death in the UK, and this article describes the positive role that reflexology treatment can play in the recovery process. Qualified refle...more

  102. Reflexology from the Grassroots Up

    Candice Caradoc describes the career of established reflexologist Lynn Hatswell who from small beginnings became involved in developing the practice of reflexology in Australia and...more

  103. Reflexology Practice - Moving into the New Millennium

    This article looks at the history and practice of Reflexology over the past two decades. In recent years, reflexology has come to be recognized more as a 'complementary' rather tha...more

  104. Reflexology reaches out to Bosnia

    Adrian Seager is a busy reflexologist and trainer who made three visits to Sarajevo in 1998 to assist in the training and qualification of a group of physiotherapists in reflexol...more

  105. Reflexology to Help Stress and Anxiety

    Reflexology can work very specifically to help the body heal itself and clients will often seek a reflexologist for help with common ailments such musculo-skeletal pain, insomnia, h...more

  106. Reflexology, Fertility and IVF

    Recently there has been much negative press over IVF. This is such a shame because for some people it will be the only way they can achieve pregnancy. So much as I am always incline...more

  107. Reflexology: Helping to Alleviate Migraines and Headaches

    The author lists possible precipitating factors for headaches, and more specifically migraines, and explain that hand reflexology can be used to address the various areas relating ...more

  108. Reflexology: the Feet are an Underestimated Part of the Body

    This article examines an extraordinary technique, very similar to reflexology, that brought fame and fortune to a Canadian physician in the 1930s, and also highlights areas in ther...more

  109. Reflexology: What Is Its True Potential?

    Reflexology is a powerful therapy that can have far-reaching effects on health and well-being. Introduced to the UK in the early 1960s, it should by now have earned a place alongsi...more

  110. Reflexology: Working Corresponding Limbs to Ease Cramp, Restless Legs and Painful Elbow

    The therapy of Reflexology has mapped areas of sensitivity on the feet which are connected to all parts of the bodymore

  111. Reflexology's Supporting Role for Complex Combat Injuries

    When complementary therapist Zoe Warner’s husband was injured in a roadside explosion and later medically discharged, she used complementary therapies including reflexology alongsid...more

  112. Reflexology’s Role in Cancer Care and Support

    Almost everyone knows someone who has developed cancer; reflexology is a gentle, supporting, non-invasive complementary therapy that is used widely to support people who are living ...more

  113. Refractory Multiple Myeloma – New FDA Approved Treatment 2022

    Multiple myeloma is one of the rarest cancers. In 2022, an estimated 34,470 cases of multiple myeloma were recorded in the United States. The death toll went up to 12,640 in the Uni...more

  114. Reframing AlphaGo - When Failure is not an Option!

    The belief that ‘failure is not an option’ is often used to spur people on to greater achievement; but it can also destroy them. Perfectionist traits can stir dysfunctional unhealth...more

  115. Regenerate and Revitalise

    Summer is a wonderful time of the year when nature flourishes and life seems brighter, more colourful, and full of vitality. A newness evolves and we naturally focus on our surroun...more

  116. Regenerative Homeopathy© To Whole Health Satisfaction

    By showing facts of recoveries from a variety of health concerns is the only way to bring hope to lives of millions viewers and update the experts, and crystallize the sceptic mind ...more

  117. Regrowing Frog Limbs: What Does This Mean For Humankind?

    Did you know that salamanders are able to regrow limbs? They can do so thanks to blastema cells, which allow for the almost instant mass formation of stem cells. It’s a relatively u...more

  118. Regulation of Group 2 Complementary Therapies

    Carol Preen tackles the regulation of three Group 2 therapies which she practises, Aromatherapy, Massage and Reflexology, and how they will affect the business of these therapists....more

  119. Reiki - Hands-on Healing for Body, Mind and Spirit

    The author's involvement with Reiki began eight years ago while she was having a cut and blow dry and her hairdresser said she'd just had one of the best weekends of her life. Lear...more

  120. Reiki - Healing and Harmony Through the Hands

    The author is a Reiki Master-teacher, healer, lecturer, author and seminar leader, who found that Reiki healing provided the answers to her long journey of self-exploration.more

  121. Reiki - Healing Tool

    A full Reiki treatment covers all the major organs, endocrine system, acupuncture meridians and chakra energy centres, and it can be used very effectively on a self-treatment bas...more

  122. Reiki - Personal Journeys in Healing

    Today, there are probably more than a million people around the world who have Reiki. Perhaps you are wondering, as many people are at the moment, if you would benefit from havin...more

  123. Reiki - The Gentle Healer

    Roslyn Aston is a practising homeopath. In a road accident her right leg was severely crushed and had to be amputated above the knee. After the surgery she experienced phantom pa...more

  124. Reiki as a Clinical Therapy

    The authors of this article are both trained reiki practitioners and they talk about Active Reiki - the form of Reiki that was developed by Mikao Usui. Active Reiki allows practiti...more

  125. Reiki Attunements - A Personal Journey

    Stanley Giles, a nurse for 25 years, is also a Kinesiologist and Touch for Health Instructor, and a founder member of the Scottish Holistic Health Association, which teaches nurs...more

  126. Reiki Belongs in Hospitals

    One of the wonderful things with Reiki is that whilst you are giving it, you are also receiving it yourself, which means that in emergency situations, it is enabling you to stay ca...more

  127. Reiki Reflexology for Mental Health Conditions

    The author, a complementary therapist at a mental health drop-in charity, based in Feltham, focuses on the value of combining Reiki and Reflexology for Mental Health Conditions. Fo...more

  128. Reiki Today

    In the west, Reiki developed as a healing practice, in which the practitioner intention must be towards the well-being of the client. In the absence of contact with Japan, many heal...more

  129. Reiki Training

    The technique is an ancient Japanese hands-on, hands-off method of healing that can be learnt by anyone. It is simple, powerful, harmless and complements other complementary therap...more

  130. Reiki: A tool for personal and global transformation

    The story of Dr Usui's rediscovery of the ancient hands-on healing system has now become familiar knowledge and its successes in the physical domain are well documented. It is prov...more

  131. Relationship between Anxiety, Mental Health, and Quality of Sleep

    Anxiety comes in many forms, from the general worry that comes from everyday life to the intense fear caused by major psychiatric disorders. As debilitating as anxiety can be to our...more

  132. Release the Animal in Your Soul or How to Lose Your Anxiety

    The problem with anxiety is that it’s part of us. That might sound too obvious to be worth saying, but look again… it’s part of us, not part of what is actually out there in the out...more

  133. Release Your Creativity

    Living your creative dream need not be wishful thinking. It is simply a matter of following a few simple steps that will open the doors of possibility wider than you could ever ima...more

  134. Releasing Trauma Through Bodywork The Power of Awareness

    In Polarity Therapy we recognize that the harmonious flow of energy within and around the body is the essential prerequisite for health. For Polarity Therapists, the safe release o...more

  135. Reliable Testing for Candida Overgrowth

    Candida is a type of yeast that if found in large quantities in the gastrointestinal tract can lead to a combination of symptoms including fatigue, brain fog, bloating constipation...more

  136. Relief from Chronic Illness

    In this column, the author provides cases studies on the effects of reflexology on certain chronic illnesses, and adds that where illness cannot be reversed, patients still exper...more

  137. Relief from Migraine

    In this article on Reflexology and its positive effect on Migraines, the author says migraine affects about 10% of the UK population, and that there are two types: common migraine ...more

  138. Remarkable Recoveries - Individual Potential for Healing

    Dr Blasi considers the significance of double-blind randomized control trials (RCT) and the way they provide an empirical basis for testing pharmacological, surgical, psychotherape...more

  139. Remembering Dr Rolf

    May 1996 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr Ida P Rolf, one of the leading contributors to body therapy in the 20th century, who was born in May 1896. Although Dr Rolf ...more

  140. Remission from Breast Cancer: Diet, Mistletoe, Carctol and Park Attwood

    In this column the author shares her experience with Breast Cancer and treatment with mistletoe therapy at the Park Atwood Clinic.more

  141. Remission in a Case of Rectal Cancer Treated with Herbal Medicines

    This article discusses a case study diagnosed with rectal cancer who refused conventional radiotherapy and chemotherapy on recurrence of the tumour and opted for alternative therap...more

  142. Reproductive Reflexology

    Infertility, sub-fertility and delayed conception are increasingly common issues experienced by approximately 1 in 6 couples in the UK. And this statistic appears to be replicated ...more

  143. Reprogramming your Mind for the Resolution of Chronic Pain and Debilitating Conditions

    Have you ever wondered if you have supernatural powers? The first time many of us considered the possibility of having supernatural powers was probably when we were children, playi...more

  144. Requirements for Proper Absorption

    Although the gastro-intestinal tract is not the only way that materials have of entering our body, it is the most usual and direct route for our nutritional requirements to be sati...more

  145. Research - the Key to Developing Good Practice

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  146. Research and Reflexology

    I studied for my reflexology diploma nearly 25 years and in those days I spent a lot of time explaining to people what reflexology actually was. There were few articles about it and...more

  147. Research Proposal: Cancer Patients’ Survival: Comparing Integrated Alternative Therapies and Chemotherapy / Radiotherapy Treatment

    I recently re-discovered on my hard drive the Consensus Statement document - attached - published in 1994 of which I was the lead author - Nutrition and Life-Style Guidelines for Pe...more

  148. Research Shines Light on Blackcurrants for their ‘Unprecedented’ Fat Burning Properties

    The ‘super’ nutritional benefits of berries are nothing new, however there’s one area of berry-specific interest that is gaining scientific momentum for it potential in athletes, t...more

  149. Research Shows Modern Humans’ Brain Size has Shrunk by 20%

    Both brain size and IQ are falling in modern humans, coinciding with a big increase in mental illness. What we eat is to blame, says Professor Michael Crawford, author of his latest...more

  150. Research Study Arthritis and Homoeopathy

    Dr Michel van Wassenhoven recently published (British Homoeopathic Journal 85: 198-204, Oct 1996) the details of a retrospective study of rheumatological patients from his private ...more

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