Inner smile In this inner smile exercise you’ll learn to send a beautiful smile inside from your head to your gut – giving yourself a joyful feeling side. It is based on ancient Taoist teachings and works through co-innervation of the esophagus with the head, heart and enteric nervous systems. You can find more detailed […]

Have you ever noticed how quickly pleasure fades from your thoughts? How you can do ninety nine nice things for someone and all they will remember is the one thing you didn’t do! That no matter how many wonderful things happen to us, that we still end up disappointed and find new things to complain […]

Benefits of Meditation, Mindful Breathing and taking your attention inside For some people, they will desire to have some research and empirical evidence around new practices and what benefits they have been shown to have.  If this is you please read on. If not, please scroll down to the bottom if you want to go straight […]

The buddha once said that the mind can be likened to a monkey – restlessly, chattering, screeching, jumping from branch to branch and thought to thought which can leave us feeling confused, agitated, frazzled and stressed. On average we have between 12,000 – 70,000 thoughts per day – which equates to between 8 and 48 thoughts […]

Words Words, Told with rhyme, Given meaning, And read in line. Said with love, Or meant with hate, While with silence, We punctuate. Self-express, As long or short. Tell with justice, Or truth distort. With phrase on paper, In black on white. A song, a letter, A message, we write. Form a sentence, With story […]

Music has the ability to soothe and calm our nervous system and is uniquely linked to our emotions. Particularly powerful is slow, quiet classical music which has been proven to slow the pulse and heart rate, lower blood pressure and decrease stress hormone levels. As musical preference varies widely, only you can decide what you […]

Gratitude – why it’s more than a feeling, and why it’s more important than ever While across the globe we collectively take a breath and adjust to the uncertainty of what is now, or at least temporarily our new reality, the practice of gratitude is more important than ever. Every day as common courtesy and good manners we […]

As we are triggered by uncertainty and events outside of our control, it is more important than ever to bring your body back to calm and Balance over and over again.  This menu of ideas, shares easy ways to stimulate your body to move into calm.  Each activity is shown to stimulate your vagus nerve, […]