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Reconnect To Emotions

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DETACHMENT 2.0 This time 10 years ago, I'd spent 303 days of continuous self-investigations and writing about my findings, to learn about self and become more connected to others. This post I wrote 1st November 2015 on DETACHMENT, shows how far I had come along my path learning about why we become depressed. The word 'depression' is a perfect word for explaining the process of pushing down our emotional feelings – a lowering and compression of our feelings, which are importantly used for life guidance, – which helps us to know what has value, what is important to address immediately and what steers us on the right path. When we don't take responsibility for our feelings and if we allow others to take over our decision making processes, that in-turn, suppresses emotions, we become impacted with blocked emotions that build up to cause disease of the mind and impaired with symptoms which will develop in the body expressed as 'heaviness', lack of desire and no moti...

Workshop: Spring Detox – Symptoms

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THE LIVER POWDER KEG Old age is something we are told just happens to us without any control over the effects. Symptoms of old age can begin for many in our 20s (some even earlier). Male pattern baldness and grey hair are just two of the signs we are ageing. Thickening around the middle is another. Baldness has recently been linked to high acidity levels and an enzyme deficiency which inhibits hair growth. Grey hair is directly linked to stress.  Up until recently, arthritis was considered an old person's disease, but we're seeing rises in all kinds of auto-immune, inflammatory tissue diseases and they are all linked to lifestyle habits including diet, plus blood contaminants and environmental pollutants. All diseases are linked to the same thing – stress, caused by contaminants and environmental pollutants. Increasingly, these poisons are stemming from our main sources of nutrition and from the places we live and work. We can't really escape so easily when the stresses a...

Gut Instincts

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  BLOATED OUT OF PROPORTION Training hard? Check! Drinking less alcohol? Check! Hydrating more? Check! Eating a well-balanced, highly nutritious diet? Check, check & check! Yet, feeling overly tired, low in energy and suffering with ailments stemming from an out-of-sorts digestive system? This is where a better understanding of food is required to  heal the gut  and get back on track. Plug The Leak Reading up on  Zonulin  and  leaky gut syndrome , it's relatively easy to discover some helpful clues as to why our energy levels are so low and why eyes are dull or skin dry and flakey. Damage to the digestive system can be caused by a multitude of different factors and it can also  manifest in all kinds of ways , ranging from the more obvious signs like a bloated stomach, to the not so obvious ones, like experiencing more mood swings, chronic fatigue, lacking in concentration or having sustained bouts of  brain fog & headaches . Without t...