Have you ever thought about the healing power of compassion? It cannot be overestimated when it comes to long term illness and disease. Especially where, as often can be the case, inner self-judgement or outwardly directed blame compounds the illness and often results in a resistance, conscious or not, to healing and being well.Self compassion [...]
One of the silent illnesses that you don’t see on the outside but which is all the same, chronic and life threatening, is high blood pressure As the name implies, the chronic illness, hypertension is simply having a blood pressure higher than usual. When it is lower than usual, we call it hypotension. But this [...]
Hypothyroidism is often difficult to detect since it has signs and symptoms that could be attributed to any number of problems. However hopefully the following list of common symptoms can help to throw some light on the condition for a clearer diagnosis and treatment plan Adults and Elderly Some of the most common symptoms of [...]
Psychologists studying the science of happiness believe that laughter promotes both physical and psychological health >> Boost your health with simple laughter exercises. Click here to learn how A managed care consultant dies and goes to Heaven. Frankly, he can’t believe his good fortune in being there, given the life he has led. But St. [...]
Pain in Women: Chronic Pain Management If you’re a computer user, or your work involves constant repetitive movements with your hands and arms, you may develop tendinitis. Tendinitis is the inflammation of a tendon – the tough elastic fibers that connect muscles to bones. You can get tendinitis in any tendon, but it’s very common [...]
The Law of Attraction is a Universal Law Law of Attraction Relationship Coach Nannette Geiger, writes… A Universal Law is one that operates dependably under all situations. A Universal Law doesn’t treat people who utilize the Principle more preferentially. It doesn’t take more kindly to the rich and famous. In fact, the LoA is working [...]
Have you ever heard that there is a gift in adversity? One of my all time favourite quotes from a Sufi saying is: “When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left” The following article talks about how illness can become the turning point for a beautiful [...]
No one on earth would love to visit a doctor in all his sanity. But no matter how much we hate to knock at the Doc’s door, something or the other takes us right there. And the visits increase with age, as does the number of health problems. Now while it is true that doctors, [...]
The adage, ‘laughter is the best medicine’, proves to be true when it comes to keeping heart attacks at bay. Recent studies conducted at a university in Baltimore show that people who always have a good laugh are less likely to have heart diseases. Further, people with heart diseases are found 40% less probable to [...]
Can laughter be used as a stress reliever and coping strategy in difficult situations? It would appear so. Learn how to reduce stress through laughter During World War Two, the soldiers between their battles would laugh and have fun whenever and wherever possible, so that they would put the negative and unpleasant memories out of [...]
You should incorporate some humor in your life. What would it be like to go around in a serious state of mind all the time? You’ve got to laugh sometime. Laughter is good medicine for you and you should prescribe it to yourself as much as possible. This is definitely stress buster material. Check out [...]
You have one of the most powerful healing resources at your fingertips and it won’t cost you a penny. Yet it is priceless! What is it, you might say? It is the amazingly precious healing gift of laughter Building a positive focus in your life which includes a regular dose of laughter can play a [...]
How Laughter Can Reduce Stress and Improve Your Health A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. -Proverbs 17:22 Feeling stressed out, angry or sad? Dread going to work? Try this: Open your mouth as wide as you can, bug out your eyes, stick out your tongue, bring [...]
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