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Some of you might be noticing that your gut has become sluggish and is not absorbing as it used to. You need to watch out for this for it means that nutrients meant to keep your skin, hair, nails, muscles and bones up to strength are not being adequately...
This 'Heart beats and breaths' calculator will amaze you … and may even leave you a little breathless.
In a typical minute your heart beats about 72 times and you take in about 15 breaths. In terms of numbers that's more than 4,000 heartbeats and 900 breaths in an hour....
When we lived in the chateau, we shared it with Honey and Lucy. Honey was the lab, and Lucy the Westy.
Lucy became ill, deteriorating to such an extent that nothing could be done to save her so I took her to the vet's in Cholet.
While I sat...
4. Crane Pose
This is another balancing posture, but this time you’re balancing on your arms.
Start out in a squat with your feet hip distance apart. Move your legs so that your shins are right in line with your armpits, then place your palms on the floor in front of...
We live in a short attention span society. Between the hours most of us spend in front of the TV or online, our ability to concentrate is practically under siege on a daily basis.
Yoga is a great way to improve concentration by its very nature. Working a few of the...
9. Put aside £10-15 a week to use on a glorious, relaxing, invigorating, monthly body massage. This can go a very long way towards releasing stress and worry and anxiety in a short period of time.
10. Enrol in your local yoga studio and take a 'restorative' yoga class. This special...
2. Take time each day to ‘take it easy’ as my father used to say. Just stop ………. and do nothing. Become …. quite. Turn your thoughts off. In the office you can do this at your desk by doing some stretches and then, while sitting, lean your head back...
Stress.
Think how much fun life would be if it wasn’t a part in your life. What a wonderful life it would be!
Apparently 38% of us worry every day. Where do they get these figures from? Surely we all worry.
Whatever, as they say, for stress can be dealt with. There...
We all have nights when we can’t sleep, whether it be from stress, illness, or worry.
You know what it’s like. You try to get some sleep as you know you must sleep to function in the morning.
Yet you can’t.
You count herds of sheep, practice body relaxation techniques, or read...
After obese men took a relatively small dose or resveratrol, an ingredient in red wine, in purified form every day for a month, their metabolisms changed for the better. In fact, the effects appear to be as good as severe calorie restriction.
"Patrick Schrauwen of Maastricht University in The Netherlands,...
