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  1. Pilates for Optimum Health and Fitness

    Good health and wellbeing are not to be regarded as something of a luxury or some kind of self-indulgence - both are an essential part of a successful, forward thinking and fulfill...more

  2. Pilates for Today

    Pilates looks after the basics of posture, the cardiovascular system, breathing and reduces stress to make it, according to the author, the most suitable method to counterbalance o...more

  3. Piriformis Syndrome

    A referred posterior leg pain condition described as a compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve by a contracted or stretched piriformis muscle. The syndrome is six times more ...more

  4. Planetary Herbal Wisdom Interview with Michael Tierra

    Michael Tierra, a leading herbalist from the US, speaks to Helen Morris about his commitment to using the wisdom of many traditions of herbal medicine, and his concerns about “the ...more

  5. Planning for your GP Trip: Six Steps to Understanding your Pain

    It’s one thing to go and see your doctor. It’s quite another to be able to accurately describe your pain. After all, we all have different pain thresholds, so describing the intensi...more

  6. Plant Medicines and Shamanic Healing

    This article focuses on the medicinal use of plants by the Shamans of the Amazon and how they help us with our deepest spiritual experiences and development of consciousness. The a...more

  7. Plant Sterols/Sterolins for Optimum Immunity

    This article will be of interest to readers seeking help with immune-system related challenges, and to practitioners working with such individuals.more

  8. Plantar Fasciitis

    Plantar fasciitis is an inflammation of the plantar fascia, the ligament that attaches the heel bone to muscle.  When the ligament is overused through excessive running, jumping et...more

  9. Play to Live

    Regular columnist Vivienne Silver-Leigh reminds us of the importance of play. She quotes Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler on the theme of playing, that: "Playing keeps us yo...more

  10. Play, Learn, Grow: Why Playgrounds are Vital to Childhood Development

    Although public-use playgrounds have suffered as a result of budgetary concerns, outdoor play remains vitally important to childhood development. This kind of play informs children...more

  11. Podiatry - Importance of the Foot

    This features look in depth at the way your feet can affect other areas of your body. Podiatry is the profession which specializes in the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of foo...more

  12. Poetry for Health and Healing

    After a heart quadruple bypass operation in 1999, for poet and novelist Steve Jaffes, something magical started happening one day as he was writing the journal in which he vented a...more

  13. Poison Ivy Strikes Again

    This article, by one of our regular feature writers, examines the case of Ann, who had been plagued by psoriasis for twenty years. Her body was marked by large, scaly patches of th...more

  14. Poison Pills

    We live in a perpetual healthcare hurricane, a marketing storm whipped up continuously with tidings of pharmacological breakthroughs and admonitions to submit to preventive screenin...more

  15. Poisoned - Side Effects of Mercury Amalgam Fillings

    The author relates his personal experience of the effects that mercury amalgam fillings have had on his life – of his resulting ill health and subsequent recovery.more

  16. Polarity Therapy

    Polarity Therapy was developed by Dr Randolph Stone in the USA from 1945 to 1973. He integrated his knowledge of osteopathy, chiropractic and naturopathy with an understanding of e...more

  17. Polarity Therapy - Part II

    In Part II of a two part series the author talks about fascia and the energy flows. more

  18. Polarity Therapy - Touch with Awareness

    This article will be of interest to clients seeking healing through touch, and to practitioners who may wish to enhance their work with healing through Therapeutic Touch, Reiki, Sh...more

  19. Polarity Therapy: Linking Ancient Knowledge and Modern Physics

    What is Polarity Therapy? Polarity therapy is a system of holistic healthcare based on an understanding of the flow of life energy. Life energy must flow correctly to maintain opti...more

  20. Polycystic Ovaries: Conception following Nutritional Programme

    Despite the remarkable breakthrough that IVF (in-vitro fertilization) has made in the treatment of infertility, Penny Crowther points out that there are other more natural and less...more

  21. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

    Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a complex condition that affects about one in 10 women in the UK. Symptoms include irregular or absent periods, ovulation problems and inferti...more

  22. Polymyalgia Rheumatica - Is it a Dental Problem?

    It was interesting to come across a patient who had been diagnosed with Polymyalgia Rheumatica. This is a self-completed list of the symptoms that the patient presented with:more

  23. Polymyalgia rheumatica succumbs again!

    Susan came to me eight months ago, more or less in despair. She had been diagnosed as suffering from polymyalgia rheumatica eighteen months beforehand. Her story started three ye...more

  24. Poor Little Rich Thief

    With so many financial scandals effecting peoples health is may be time for us to put things in prospective before our health suffers.more

  25. Portrait of Natural Health Clinic

    In this article on the portrait of Natural Health Clinic, the author provides a summary of this clinic which he runs, and also shares his views on when people do seek alternative t...more

  26. Positive Effects of Theragem Treatment

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  27. Positive Emotions - The Secret to Positive Health?

    Traditional stress management techniques usually deal with stress after the fact, hours after your body has been subjected to heavy tides of adrenaline and pulses of cortisol. ...<...more

  28. Positive Health of Mind and Body

    The author illustrates what she calls the “universal natural law that whatever we do in this life will eventually come back in exactly the same proportions” by relating the story o...more

  29. Post Treatment Re-Action following the Application of Alternative Medicine

    Many 'alternative' therapies engender a re-action as a result of administering their remedies first time round for a given ailment. These re-actions usually do not exceed beyond the...more

  30. Post Viral Syndrome / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    In my early twenties I suffered with a nasty virus that left me feeling so debilitated that I was unable to work for a while. I recall falling asleep during a conversation taking p...more

  31. Posture And Balance

    Both of the terms posture and balance seem to speak of stillness, but it is rather that they are continually with us, most noticed when the flurry of activity ceases.  And every mov...more

  32. Potential of Mushroom Supplementation to Inhibit Progression of Alzheimer´s Disease

    The World Health Organization reports that 47.5 million people are affected by dementia worldwide. With aging populations and 7.7 million new cases each year, the burden of illness ...more

  33. Power Assisted Micro-Manipulation

    Power Assisted Micro-Manipulation by Irene Phillips the first osteopath to be using Power-Assisted Micro-Manipulation. The treatment is carried out working on all levels of the spi...more

  34. Power Plants and Runes

    The word rune means 'a mystery' and it is also believed to come from a root, meaning 'to whisper' and 'a secret'. This is how the runes were passed on. The knowledge was a secret, ...more

  35. Practical Advice for Reflexologists and Complementary Therapists

    In this article the author offers advice on how Reflexologists and Complementary Therapists can improve the quality of their service to keep and attract more clients.more

  36. Practical Ayurveda - Sattvic Qualities for a Healthy Mind and Body

    Ayurveda, the Indian traditional medicine and 'science of life' is becoming more widely known outside of India and recognized as a truly holistic means of health care.more

  37. Practical Meditation

    Meditation has been used for thousands of years, in many different ways and in cultures across the globe. It is thought primarily to be an Eastern practice as a means to finding sp...more

  38. Practical NLP: Negotiating Being Fat

    The author gives an account of her personal history of having been told by her doctor to lose ten pounds, when she was fourteen, and weighed eight stone nine pounds. She did this s...more

  39. Practical NLP: Separation and Separateness

    The author offers some keys to healthier relationships, particularly with our partners.   She also explains the difference between separation and separateness, and how men and wo...more

  40. Practical Protection for Practitioners

    This column is aimed to help practitioners practise in a professional manner which protects them and their clients. The author shares her views on what a Professional Practice is...more

  41. Practical Uses of NLP, and What Is It About Wheelchairs?

    Just a quick refresher about metaprogrammes, first!more

  42. Practical Ways You can help Someone with a Cancer Diagnosis

    A cancer diagnosis touches everyone, friends, family, colleagues and of course the person who has cancer. It’s is not often recognized that those surrounding a cancer patient have...more

  43. Practitioners Must State The Case For Complementary and Alternative Medicine

    This is an urgent call to all practitioners to state the case for complementary and alternative medicine.  The view accepted and promoted by the media is that because CAM lacks the...more

  44. Prana and Wellbeing

    The concept that everything in nature is permeated by energy, was fundamental to the philosophies of ancient civilisations such as China, Japan and India, and remains so today. The...more

  45. Prana for Health - No Touch Energy Healing

    In this article the authors discuss the benefits of pranic healing, a no drug, no touch therapy, which is easy to learn and open to everyone. It resulted from over thirty years of ...more

  46. Pratima - Female Spiritual Teacher

    Pratima was born as Michele Mumford in Liverpool in 1952 to two University Professors. She was brought up in England and received her B.A. Hons. in Philosophy and Comparative Relig...more

  47. Preeclampsia - Nutritional Factors

    I wrote these thoughts on preeclampsia for a South African doctor; this information should be public knowledge.more

  48. Premature Menopause

    Clinical nutritionist Kate Neil presents a case study of a 25-year-old woman, who appeared to be suffering from premature menopause, having not had a period for five years.more

  49. Prenatal and Birth Therapy - Healing our Earliest Wounds from Conception to Birth

    Prenatal and birth therapy was developed by Dr Raymond Castellino as a powerful method of working with babies and their families in order to resolve traumatic imprinting that origi...more

  50. Preparing for the cold season

    Primary prevention of infection can be assisted by taking certain herbs and spices. To enhance our immunity, the author suggests including spices such as ginger, cinnamon, cardam...more

  51. Prescribing on a Keynote

    Choosing a homeopathic medicine on the basis of a single keynote symptom is neither recommended nor reliable. However, there are instances when a keynote symptom can be an importan...more

  52. Pressure Plate Analysis of Rothbarts Foot and the PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity

    Standing barefooted, surface area (X) and media pressure (Y) readings were recorded on 11 PreClinical Clubfoot Patients and 6 Rothbarts Foot subjects using the Podolab 2000 pressure...more

  53. Preventing Coronary Heart Disease and Strokes

    Are you at risk of coronary heart disease or strokes? It is possible to minimize that risk by your own actions? In the author's experience, when people really understand what is go...more

  54. Preventing Female Heart Disease

    In the thick of the covid pandemic, there has been a lot of attention on supporting the immune system.  Whilst this is a good idea, it’s only part of the picture. In this article, I...more

  55. Preventing Plane Pain - Looking After your Joints when Travelling

    When you’re off relaxing or enjoying yourself at the beach or in the countryside, surely you’re looking after your health by taking time out? Whilst this is certainly true for easi...more

  56. Preventing Prostate Cancer Through Diet

    Prostate gland problems affects 30% of men aged 20-40, 50% of men by 60, rising to 80% by 80, and prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in men in the UK. ...more

  57. Prevention Of Ageing With Ayurveda

    This is a very detailed account of the Ayurvedic approach to ageing, including recommendations about nutrition, life-style and attitudes, and specific Ayurvedic remedies.more

  58. Prevention of Atopic Asthma

    House dust mites are found in most houses. Their numbers have increased dramatically in recent years, and there is evidence that this has led to a corresponding rise in the number ...more

  59. Prevention of Back Pain

    It is staggering to think that back pain will affect so many adults. Back pain in its various forms will affect 80% of people at some stage during their adult lives. This is the gr...more

  60. Prevention of Injury Through Strength Training

    Anyone who is active will tell you that the most annoying barrier to continuing his or her sport or activity of choice is injury. It comes without warning, it is always inconvenient...more

  61. Prevention or Cure: Are all Fish Oils Equal? Part II

    In the second part of David Taylor's Expert Column about fish oils, he looks at how we should take fish oils, whether they contain any contaminants and finally how well they work...more

  62. Prevention or Cure: What's the Problem with Milk?

    The author looks at milk and why, like other white dietary products – salt, sugar, white flour, white rice, and white pasta – it should be excluded from our diet. He explains that ...more

  63. Preventive Eye Care Tips to Keep Your Vision Healthy & Sharp

    Most of us don’t think about eye health until something starts to feel off. Blurry vision, headaches, dry eyes. That is usually when we realise how much we rely on our eyes every si...more

  64. Primary Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

    Kate Neil looks at the causes, symptoms and nutritional treatment of primary polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), a common hormonal problem affecting menstruating women, using the s...more

  65. Primordial Sound Meditation

    Primordial Sound Meditation is a mantra meditation that was developed by Dr Deepak Chopra from an ancient tradition.more

  66. Principles And Organization Of Training

    There are five primary training principles that strength and conditioning professionals should consider when designing training programs for their athletes: overload, specificity, v...more

  67. Probiotic Power: Are you Getting the Right Bugs?

    This article focuses on probiotics, the beneficial lactic acid producing bacteria which inhabit our intestines. Milk, for one provides a good example, 'coz when soured it turns int...more

  68. Probiotics - What they are and what they do

    The term "probiotic" covers microbial food supplements whose primary aim is to improve the health and well being of the consumer.more

  69. Probiotics and Sleep Support

    Sleep disorders are a major public health concern in the world, affecting millions of individuals and contributing to a wide range of health problems. Sleep is crucial for physical ...more

  70. Probiotics and the Immune System

    Probiotics are live microorganisms that confer health benefits when consumed in adequate amounts. They are found in various foods and dietary supplements, including yogurt, kefir, a...more

  71. 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

  72. Problems Affecting Muscles and Joints

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

  73. 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

  74. 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

  75. 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

  76. 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

  77. 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

  78. 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

  79. 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

  80. 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

  81. 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

  82. 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

  83. 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

  84. 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

  85. 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

  86. Protecting Our Soul In Dangerous Times

    The times are dangerous because America’s leaders are sliding into fascism and have started a war which seems pointless and to have no plan that could end it.more

  87. 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

  88. 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

  89. 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

  90. 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

  91. 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

  92. 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

  93. 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

  94. 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

  95. 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

  96. 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

  97. Psychosocial Risk, a Workplace Crisis

    When people seek psychiatric support because work has become unmanageable, they rarely use terms such as “psychosocial risk”. They are more likely to describe a growing sense of dre...more

  98. 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

  99. 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

  100. 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

  101. 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

  102. 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

  103. 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

  104. 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

  105. 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

  106. 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

  107. 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

  108. 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

  109. 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

  110. 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

  111. 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

  112. 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

  113. 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

  114. 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

  115. 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

  116. 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

  117. 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

  118. 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

  119. 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

  120. 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

  121. 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

  122. 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

  123. 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

  124. 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

  125. 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

  126. 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

  127. 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

  128. 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

  129. 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

  130. 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

  131. 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

  132. 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

  133. 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

  134. 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

  135. 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

  136. 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

  137. 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

  138. 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

  139. 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

  140. 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

  141. 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

  142. 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

  143. 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

  144. 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

  145. 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

  146. 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

  147. 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

  148. 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

  149. 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

  150. 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

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