How to Strengthen Your Intuition

Do you tap into your gut feeling? And is it a real thing? Intuition is often referred to as your ‘inner guidance’, an ‘inner knowing’, a ‘hunch’, or a ‘gut feeling’. While we use both rational and intuitive thinking, studies have found unconscious information can help inform and improve decision-making. But it’s about developing trust […]

Five Morning Rituals To Get You Moving

Making your bed may seem a bit military academy, but it’s actually a great way of setting your intention for the day: to not be sloppy. Personally, I like to go for a sunrise walk. I asked friends who seem to particularly have their act together what their own morning rituals are.

The Power of the Placebo Effect

On average, the placebo effect leads to improvement in 30 percent of subjects who receive it, and that number is even higher for other conditions like depression, where it gets up to 45%

The YouTube Healer People Love

Sara Raymond is a hypnotherapist and YouTube healer with a lot of praise from people whose pain, anxiety, insomnia and panic attacks she has fixed. All free. All on video.

Demystifying Cold Water Therapy

There are many ways to ease yourself into the benefits of cold-water immersion, starting with a cold shower for a minute, then building up to three.

A New Take On Bach Remedies

It’s incredible to me that flowers can help balance emotional issues – Dr Bach’s philosophy seems precise. He believed that behind every physical disease there lies an emotional imbalance – because what is happening emotionally affects us physically, as well as vice-versa.

Royal Approval – Flower Essences

Flower essences became famous for their healing powers, thanks to the 1980 Royal Warrants for Bach Flower Remedies (The Queen, HM the Queen Mother and HRH the Princes of Wales).

Try the NASA Astronaut Nap

After years of research, NASA scientists found a nap of 10 to 20 minutes boosted pilot performance by 34% and alertness by 54%.
Sara Mednick PhD, is one of the world’s best-known sleep experts. This is what she found out, about what some people call catnaps.

Lavender, Sleep and the Science

Lavender Oil Does Everything by Baraa Jalahej, Unsplash

Needing a better night’s sleep? Well, science has some interesting answers, with multiple studies showing lavender oil – an affordable aromatherapy oil – improves sleep quality, reduces anxiety and helps to lower blood pressure.

What’s It Like to Swim in Hampstead?

Hampstead Heath ponds by Brett Jordan, Unsplash

The thrill of swimming outdoors in freezing water in Hampstead is world famous. Open-air swimming with the Ladies’ Pond, the Men’s Pond, the Mixed Pond and the Parliament Hill Lido is not for everybody, but devotees love it.