Have you been missing the Cygnus Books magazine? I certainly have! I hadn’t realised how much I’d looked forward, every month, to their exclusive Mind, Body, Spirit articlesand special book selections. There was always such a diverse range of helpful and inspiring topics covered within those free pages and somehow every issue would be completely in tune with where my thoughts, feelings and...
View full article →You’d probably never have thought it, but before Deepak Chopra became a well loved mind-body-spirit expert and inspirational philosopher, he was a stressed out, chain smoking and discontented chief of medicine (yes, Western medicine) at a hospital in Boston, America. His work was having a negative impact on his life and he was consistently turning to alcohol.
‘Very unhappy people, physicians,’he...
View full article →How often do you look up? I looked up properly, for the first time in a long time, while I was at Tintern Abbey recently. The sacred architecture of the medieval building was clearly designed to draw the eye upwards and our awareness towards the heavens and the divine – the result of which was an eased mind, a lifted mood and a sense of faith restored in an instant.
Do you remember your favourite childhood teddy? You know, that one you used to take everywhere with you, tell all your secrets to and, of course, have all sorts of epic adventures with. Children form a special friendship with their teddies; they talk with them and believe in them wholeheartedly. In return those toys help kids to discover the many remarkable aspects of themselves. Naturally we grow...
View full article →Are you fed up with constantly juggling different remedies for your health problems? When we’re at a loss as to what is causing recurrent symptoms, it’s usually something totally unsuspected silently stirring there at the root of the problem. Chronic inflammation is one of those things we don’t tend to consider – it’s a perfectly normal and necessary protective function of our bodies, healing...
View full article →Are you fed up with constantly juggling different remedies for your health problems? When we’re at a loss as to what is causing recurrent symptoms, it’s usually something totally unsuspected silently stirring there at the root of the problem. Chronic inflammation is one of those things we don’t tend to consider – it’s a perfectly normal and necessary protective function of our bodies, healing...
View full article →Are you the person you were yesterday? Would I recognise you or see someone new? I mean you are the same inside, but outwardly, do I see what another friend of yours might see or how your family sees you?
I want to share a marvellous web series with you today, called the ‘Beauty Inside’, you see this is a tale of our personas, of finding who we are and finding harmony with the world around us...
View full article →I started this email by hand, jotting out inspired notes with fingers stained purple by blackberries. Isn’t it a lovely feeling to get giddy on fresh air and flushed with the invigorating labour of foraging?
While we’re busily picking away, the suns rays are treating us to a valuable dose of vitamin D and all that exercise is causing a surge of the feel good hormone,...
View full article →Can you believe it’s almost time for the kids to go back to school already? If you have little ones at home then maybe, like me, you will be cramming in the last bit of holiday fun. The weather forecast for the next few days is a bit of a mixed bag but it is so worth us getting outdoors as much as we can and making the most of the waning summer. And while we’re out there lets remember that we’re...
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