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The Transformative Power of Deep, Slow Breathing
Slow, deep, lower abdominal breathing – for millennia a mainstay of Asian internal cultivation practices – is a powerful tool for healing and transformation. A wide range of emotional and physical problems can be helped by slow breathing and in the clinic it can be easily taught to patients - both while lying on the couch and as home practice.
The healing power of nature
When we want to improve our health, we usually think of things like increasing the amount of exercise we take or changing our diet. But there are several other important ways we can build physical and mental wellbeing, and one of these is spending more time in nature.
A beginner’s guide to the benefits of qigong
I would say that qigong is made up of three ‘cultivations’ – body, breath and mind. Some qigong traditions focus on one or two of these only but it is my belief that the highest form of qigong practice cultivates all three equally. When body, breath and mind are wrapped up together in a seamless whole, we enter the ‘qigong state’ – the optimum condition for becoming an integrated and healthy human being…
5 Guidelines on How to Eat
According to a Chinese proverb, ‘Taking medicine but neglecting diet wastes the skills of the doctor’.
This ancient saying reminds us how important what we eat is to our health and wellbeing.
But although millions of words have been written and spoken about what we should or should not be eating, much less attention is given to how we eat – our daily eating habits.
This is a shame because the how of eating is just as important as the what.
So here are five guidelines to make sure that how we eat contributes to our health, wellbeing and recovery from disease.