Years ago a graduate student earning her Ph.D made one the most influential discoveries of the 20th century in neuroscience, the body’s opiate receptor, from here she was known as the endorphin doctor. She went on to rub shoulders with some big wigs and become chief of brain chemistry at the institute of Mental Health in Washington. It […]
Back in the 80’s, Robert Adler coined the term Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) to categorise a new field of study called mind body medicine. Many others since then have discovered that there is an amazing connection between mind, body and spirit. This means our mind and the emotional thoughts we produce have an incredible impact on our physiology, […]
Stepping back into your power involves acknowledging where you’ve been given it away. We have all had experience giving away our power and it happens when you make something or someone outside of yourself more important than what is inside of you. If you don’t value who you are and what you are, then you will […]
How stressed do you feel? Cortisol is the predominant hormone associated with stress, with detrimental effects on how the body maintains health and homeostasis. If you want to read more go here. It’s believed the average person has between 50 to 100 stress responses per day. Our body is in self-repair mode all day and […]
Most of us can understand how loneliness can lead to depression, but you probably don’t know that it also affects the integrity of your immune system. Loneliness causes disease. This has been established, and is linked to heart disease, obesity, cancer, suppressed immune function and suicidal thoughts. But how often do you think about […]
Does this sound like new age talk or pop psychology? It’s not new at all and the medical establishment has been proving it for over 50 years, it’s called the placebo effect. While some may shrug the placebo effect off as just nuisance in medical studies, think again. The placebo effect is positive proof […]
Does achieving wellbeing have less to do with what you eat or how much you exercise, and more to do with what you think, believe, feel and experience? When we think of caring for our bodies we often associate this with eating a healthy diet, taking vitamins, regular exercise and getting 8 hours sleep. […]
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