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Students have exams coming up, and this can be a stressful time for both students and parents. Here are two ideas based on good learning theory about how you can help the student in your life during exam time.

Generally, until we learn better, we identify ourselves with our mind. We think our thoughts are simply “me thinking” and our feelings are “me feeling”.

When my friend Sara came back from living in Australia for a year, she was over the moon with the great times she had accumulated there. She had done so many new things and many great friends travelling around. But there was one thing which she wished she could feel differently about: her crippling fear of spiders which she had for quite some years and which was disabilitating.

I have two key strategies for this.

Learn the new approach taken by the Brooklyn Program in New York which had revolutionized how people can overcome addiction without giving it up - they leave it behind.

For many of us much of our time on Earth is focused on maintaining good health or more specifically, avoiding illness and disease. On every supermarket and shop shelf are numerous products either helping us avoid disease or helping us deal with it when we are ‘struck down’. Traditionally healing herbs were used to keep the body strong and returning to these original healing herbs, rather than synthetic versions, is one way to ensure we maintain good health and rid the body of any disease.

For many of us much of our time on Earth is focused on maintaining good health or more specifically, avoiding illness and disease. On every supermarket and shop shelf are numerous products either helping us avoid disease or helping us deal with it when we are ‘struck down’. Traditionally healing herbs were used to keep the body strong and returning to these original healing herbs, rather than synthetic versions, is one way to ensure we maintain good health and rid the body of any disease.

For many of us much of our time on Earth is focused on maintaining good health or more specifically, avoiding illness and disease. On every supermarket and shop shelf are numerous products either helping us avoid disease or helping us deal with it when we are ‘struck down’. Traditionally healing herbs were used to keep the body strong and returning to these original healing herbs, rather than synthetic versions, is one way to ensure we maintain good health and rid the body of any disease.

What is Reiki? Reiki is a natural healing system designed to assist in healing and help achieve balance. Reiki is administered by a practitioner, who serves as a conduit through whom the Universal Life Energy can be transmitted to the recipient, by either hands-on or distance healing techniques. Workers may also practice Reiki self-treatments.

The Piri-what? The Piriformis is a deep hip-buttock muscle running between the sacrum at the base of your spine and the bony part of your hip. (Greater trochanter of the femur)

It is never too late to care for ourselves and foot reflexology is a good way for the whole family, from the baby to the grandparents!  

While we don’t always have control over the circumstances of our lives, we do have control over how we react to them. Our beliefs shape our thoughts and our thoughts motivate our actions. Building a robust belief in ourselves, in our strengths, and in our ability to take appropriate and effective action will help us weather the storms of life, recover from adversity, and strengthen our ability adapt to change

Every now and then it is helpful to go back to basics.It is so easy to get caught up in the cycle of rush rush rush with no time for yourself, no time to plan, no time to relax, no time for anything except the hurly burly rush that is life in our busy world. Meeting everyone else's needs at the expense of your own, is often part of the psyche for women in our society.

We can have a situation which triggers an emotion. For example, someone says something to you which makes you feel a certain way, eg, your boyfriend says you look fat in your jeans and you feel upset. Now, the interesting thing is, we tend to think the current situation is the issue. And upon introspecting a little further, we usually find it is not...

In this article, we turn our focus to the subject of de-energisers, which represent a great opportunity to free yourself of mental clutter and improve your energy and motivation levels.

While Bach Flower Remedies are able to work will all other treatments, supporting them where necessary, there are many advantages to using Bach Flower Remedies over other types of treatments. With diagnosis made by emotions and negative soul qualities Bach Flower Remedies work directly with the body’s energy system often times avoiding unnecessary physical illness.

Few foods have caused more controversy and anxiety as fats!!! So which ones should you pick and how should you pick them? And once you have them, which ones do you use for what?! Here’s the lowdown.

How close are you to your money? Do you know where it goes? Do you know when it’s coming back? So many of us happily spend away without keeping control of the dollars and cents, which means, we can easily fall into the debt trap which then creates stress and possible conflict.

The first step to getting what you want out of your life is to create the space for it! Here are a few tips to help you do just that by slaying the energy drainers in your life once and for all!

The other day, I received an email from one of my clients who said she realised that she was not talking to her inner child because she was feeling resistance and felt uncomfortable while talking to her inner child. So, she stopped. And that meant, she didn't get to feel good. It was as though a light bulb went off in her mind, as she realised that she was listening to her feelings instead of being a strong and conscious person who could take charge of her thoughts.

What is it? The Quadratus Lumborum or "QL" for short is a flat sheet of muscle spanning the gap between the top of the hips and the bottom ribs.

What a lemon has to say about what’s listening to the thoughts in your head, why it matters and how you can best make use of them.

You might have already met the Night Terrorist. He might turn up after you’ve had a particularly busy day. You’re tired. Your muscles ache and your head is spinning. As the evening progresses you think longingly of your bed.

It seems, getting enough sleep is now a hot topic and is being studied in relation to learning, remembering, maintaining information context and even managing your preferred weight!

When it comes to weight loss it can often be a real battle between what you know is good for you and what you love. A battle of the mind. Have you experienced that dual conversation going on inside your head where one part of you is saying, ‘No, I don’t need that, if I eat that I will not reach my goal weight and it will not be doing my body any good’ and the other part is saying ‘Go on, you deserve it.

When it comes to weight loss it can often be a real battle between what you know is good for you and what you love. A battle of the mind. Have you experienced that dual conversation going on inside your head where one part of you is saying, ‘No, I don’t need that, if I eat that I will not reach my goal weight and it will not be doing my body any good’ and the other part is saying ‘Go on, you deserve it.

When it comes to weight loss it can often be a real battle between what you know is good for you and what you love. A battle of the mind. Have you experienced that dual conversation going on inside your head where one part of you is saying, ‘No, I don’t need that, if I eat that I will not reach my goal weight and it will not be doing my body any good’ and the other part is saying ‘Go on, you deserve it.

My clients seem to share one thing in common which, I guess, is why they seek me out. They all want something more out of life and, in fact, they want it badly enough however, there is something getting in the way of them achieving their desired goal.

What a week it has been in the history of aviation! A volcano erupting in Iceland has caused so much disruption leaving people stuck in different countries all over the world. I was in the Philippines at the time, and was not much disturbed by it coming back to New Zealand, but relatives and many others did find themselves stranded for days. While some people were happy about a few more days aboard, covered by insurance, others wanted to be home and wished they had not gone away.

Why does talking about something sometimese make you feel better about it and sometimes worse? Peter Campbell explores the neurolinguistic roots of successful counselling.