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27/12/2025

Gratitude is a wonderful thing 😊 Each day this silly season think of what or who you are grateful for. It could be a gift, a connection, a person, an activity, a place, a moment in time. And if you want to multiple the joy and good feelings, share it with someone and ask them what they are grateful for. If you are grateful for a person, tell them. Having appreciation for people and things around you, makes you feel better and makes life better. It is researched, the effects are real. 😊

06/12/2025

The word "Tea" is really only describing the drink made from Camelia Sinensis. There are a few varieties which make up the black, green, white, oolong, yellow and dark teas ☕️
All the other herbals drinks are called a Tisane, which could be anything from herbs to spice, fruits, and other flora 🌿🌹🍋🍃🌺🪷🍄‍🟫
In medieval Europe tisane was a hot or cold drink made from barley grain with added licorice root and fig and strained 🍵

22/11/2025

The beauty of love is the humanity in it ~
Lola Dada Olley

13/11/2025

Weeding ~ There are many w**ds that are edible, and demonised by (chemical) companies to ensure their profits.
Best natural way to w**d is pulling out by hand, not using herbicides anywhere especially where you grow your food or where animals live and eat (so basically anywhere)! It saves you money and chemical exposure!
Wet ground well, loosen earth with fork, then pull w**d out whole.
Weeds have their own properties of course and when certain w**ds pop up it indicates what the soil is lacking and what the w**d is providing. Find out what the w**d provides to the soil and replace/replenish it yourself. The w**d will probably reduce naturally then. There are always non-chem ways to garden. Everything in nature is balanced 🌳🌿

13/11/2025

Happy World Kindness Day🌳✨

The World Kindness Movement (WKM) is a legally registered not-for-profit organization with no political, commercial or religious affiliations. The formation of the organization crystallized at a conference in Tokyo on 20th September 1997 when Japan brought together like-minded kindness organizations...

03/10/2025

07/09/2025

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Forget the treadmill, if you want to beat depression, just dance. That’s the message from a landmark Australian study analyzing data from 218 trials and over 14,000 people. Researchers found that while any kind of exercise helps, dancing delivered the biggest and most consistent drop in depressive symptoms, outperforming walking, jogging, yoga, tai chi, strength training, and even standard medical treatments like antidepressants or talk therapy.

Why is dancing so powerful? Experts say it’s the perfect combination of movement, music, and emotional expression. Dancing engages the mind as much as the body, releases feel-good neurotransmitters, and often includes a social component, whether you’re sharing a dance floor or just moving at home. This unique blend helps break cycles of negative thinking, boosts mindfulness, and offers an emotional release few other activities can match.

The best part: you don’t have to be a professional or even leave your house to reap the rewards. Whether you dance alone in your living room or join a group class, this joyful movement is one of the most accessible and effective mental health tools science has uncovered. Next time you’re feeling low, turn up the music, your brain and body will thank you.
📚 Source: Noetel M, Sanders T, Gallardo-Gómez D, Taylor P, del Pozo Cruz B, van den Hoek D et al., BMJ 2024

07/09/2025

Forget the treadmill, if you want to beat depression, just dance. That’s the message from a landmark Australian study analyzing data from 218 trials and over 14,000 people. Researchers found that while any kind of exercise helps, dancing delivered the biggest and most consistent drop in depressive symptoms, outperforming walking, jogging, yoga, tai chi, strength training, and even standard medical treatments like antidepressants or talk therapy.

Why is dancing so powerful? Experts say it’s the perfect combination of movement, music, and emotional expression. Dancing engages the mind as much as the body, releases feel-good neurotransmitters, and often includes a social component, whether you’re sharing a dance floor or just moving at home. This unique blend helps break cycles of negative thinking, boosts mindfulness, and offers an emotional release few other activities can match.

The best part: you don’t have to be a professional or even leave your house to reap the rewards. Whether you dance alone in your living room or join a group class, this joyful movement is one of the most accessible and effective mental health tools science has uncovered. Next time you’re feeling low, turn up the music, your brain and body will thank you.
📚 Source: Noetel M, Sanders T, Gallardo-Gómez D, Taylor P, del Pozo Cruz B, van den Hoek D et al., BMJ 2024

11/08/2025

Doing a little bit of decluttering and clearing helps you shift a bit ✨
It doesn't have to take a long time, and you can be inspired spontaneously to do a corner or a shelf or a particular collection of items. Keep it small, and from a defined space or amount. Looking at one shelf of books or one bag of clothes, especially the ones you haven't looked at in a while, is a great place to start.
Once you have the success of clearing this and removing items to the bin, recycle, selling or donations complete, you can feel a weight lift in your life and energetically in yourself.
And look forward to the next time you can declutter and organise another small area 🌿

08/08/2025

What's in your local environment

Cell phone towers are essential to modern communication—but they may be quietly harming the trees around us.

While concerns about wireless radiation often focus on human health, a growing body of research points to its potential effects on plants—especially trees. These silent sentinels, unable to move away from environmental stressors, are continuously exposed to radiofrequency (RF) radiation from nearby towers.

A 2016 German study observed that trees located closer to mobile phone towers showed more visible damage—particularly on the side facing the radiation source—over a nine-year period. Other research has reported stunted growth, leaf abnormalities, and increased oxidative stress in plants exposed to RF radiation.

Although RF radiation is non-ionizing and not strong enough to break chemical bonds, scientists suspect that long-term exposure may interfere with plant physiology in subtle but significant ways. Some researchers remain skeptical, emphasizing that other stressors—like pollution or drought—could also be to blame. Still, the evidence is mounting, especially as wireless infrastructure continues to expand into urban and natural areas.

📄 REFERENCES:
Brice, Anne. “Moskowitz: Cellphone Radiation Is Harmful, but Few Want to Believe It.” UC Berkeley News, 1 July 2021.

Waldmann-Selsam, C., Balmori-de la Puente, A., Breunig, H., & Balmori, A. (2016). Radiofrequency radiation injures trees around mobile phone base stations. Science of The Total Environment, 572, 554–569.