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25/08/2019

Respiratory vagus nerve stimulation (rVNS) counteracts fight-or-flight stress.

01/06/2019

In this video I explore the science around how we can learn to manage intense feelings, and how this can help us to have less pain, less anxiety and even to come out of inflammatory states.

  This is a short video on the importance of feeling, on how nerves can get sensitised and some tips to be less sensitive. Enjoy! How can we be less sensitive? Danger chemicals from immune cells and stress hormones sensitise nerves. Simple things helps us de-sensitise: Awe and wonder, movement, soc...

09/01/2019

How infants’ brains respond to touch may indicate their understanding of their bodies, researchers say.

06/11/2018

Science has confirmed that women have more complex brains, which suggests that they need more sleep. Professor Jim Horne, director of the Sleep Research Centre at Loughborough University has a spec…

28/06/2018

Our body’s emergency control centre – the amygdala. The amygdala, a pair of almond-shaped structures on the left and right of the brain’s medial temporal lobe, is particularly involved in emotional memories like fear, but also in pleasurable memories associated with food, s*x, or recreational ...

04/06/2018

"There is a potency within the body that is constantly working to restore the body to the base pattern of health." Dr Rollin Becker

01/06/2018

I’m not a Reiki expert although I do have my Reiki Level One certificate. Back in the day I heard a booming voice while I was meditating that said “You will be a Craniosacral Therapist”, I did my best to ignore the call and signed up for a weekend workshop of Reiki training instead. It was fas...

02/05/2018

17/04/2018

Childbirth is the miraculous experience of creating and bringing forth new life. Labors and deliveries as individual events are as unique as the children they bring forth. With modern medicine’s at…

17/04/2018

Researchers watch, in real time, as immune cells help repair the meninges following mild traumatic brain injury.