Cygnus Review

Exciting Update & New Titles from Cygnus Books

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...

An Autumn Meditation from William Bloom

With Samhain only a couple of days away I’d like to continue with last week’s theme of Halloween as this festival holds so many layers of wisdom and blessings. When we look deeper into those layers we’re moved to embrace nature’s full cycle of life and death. The folk law and tradition of Samhain reawakens something very ancient in us and acts as a profound reminder to strive to accept, without...

What you might not know about Deepak Chopra

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...

Calling all angels!

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.

Keep your head up, keep your...

OVERWHELMED: With Brigid Schulte

In this FREE podcast listen to author Brigid Schulte speak about her book Overwhelmed: Work Love and Play When No-One Has the Time

Overwhelmed: Work Love and Play When No-One Has the Time– Time pressure and stress is re-sculpting our brains and shaping our workplaces, our relationships and squeezing the space that the Greeks said was the point of living a Good Life: that elusive moment of peace...

Your best friend for life *exclusive offer included*

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...

Discover the hidden cause of many health problems!

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...

Discover the hidden cause of many health problems!

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...

Today, who are you?

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...

Shhh … Listen … Let Music Enhance Your Life!

What is your soundtrack for this very moment? What song or symphony would echo your emotions or tell the tale of what’s happening in your life? It’s amazing how music can do all that and more. Confucius said “music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without” so I invite you to consider the ways it enhances your life. Here’s a look at just six of the many good reasons to turn...