This year we’ve experienced some fantastic weather with average temperatures for summer of 15.8 °C – 1.4 °C above the 1981 – 2010 average. And, as the season changes, the leaves turn golden and the autumn sun lies low, we slowly head towards winter and our thoughts begin to focus on darker nights and reaching for the scarves and gloves. But spare a thought for the one-in-three of us in the UK that suffer from […]
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. The EMDR therapy uses bilateral stimulation, right/left eye movement, or tactile stimulation, which repeatedly activates the opposite sides of the brain, releasing emotional experiences that are “trapped” in the nervous system. This assists the neurophysiological system, the basis of the mind/body connection, to free itself of blockages and […]
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Whether you’re an early riser or a night bird can affect your well-being and chances of developing depression and anxiety, according to new study, published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, by researchers at University of Colorado Boulder and the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The large study of the health of a large group of nurses around the age of 55 identified a link between chronotype (a […]
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Mental health is an increasing issue for us all. One in four of the UK population will be diagnosed with a mental illness – that’s diagnosed!…what about the further estimated 18% of us that suffer in silence or find the stigma associated with a mental struggle too hard to address? So there are 28 million of us in the UK that are directly affected by mental illness of some sort. But if we’re not sufferers […]
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a technique that involves tapping near the end points of “energy meridians” located around the body in order to reduce tension and promote a deeper mind-body connection. An EFT intervention utilises the same pathways and channels found in traditional Chinese energy medicine. Whilst also capitalising on our ability to focus on our problem or issue in proactive ways. In controlled trials, the Emotional Freedom Technique treatment demonstrated a significant decrease […]