The Season of Winter & Reflection
The power of winter is the power of emphasis: it emphasizes the essence of life. Without the external ornamentation of leaves, flowers, and fruits of the growing season, the plant is just bare essence: a seed, with its potential deep inside. For us, winter is a time of self-recollection, when we can go inside to that place where we are unadorned essence. We can use the energy of this season to more deeply discover the essence of our self.
The Top 5 Health Tips for Cold Weather Seasons
The crisp fall weather has arrived, hinting already at the coming winter. Known as the cold and flu season, the cold weather months are also linked to seasonal affective disorder (SAD), depression, and aggravation of skin problems like eczema and psoriasis.
Helping You Transform
Helping you Transform with Chew-Nyet Lee, Registered Counselling Therapist, Certified Hakomi Therapist, Certified Yoga and Meditation Teacher
Being Happy Just Being
Summer typically involves holidays that take us out of our routines, and into novelty and excitement. Holidays can be stimulating and often require lots of energy.
Healing Mindfully
There has been a lot of buzz lately about ‘mindfulness’. I’m sure you’ve heard of it in the media, and information is exploding within the scientific literature too. But what does mindfulness really mean? I want to help to clarify this, so you can better understand how mindfulness relates to your healing and wellness.
An Osteopathic Story
Dr. Fulford, a legendary Osteopath, whom many of you may have heard of through Dr. Andrew Weil’s book “Spontaneous Healing”, stressed the importance of looking at the living process of life. He said, “we have one task – to cease being what we are not, and to be what we eternally are.”
Eat Better, Move More, Love More… Lifestyle Medicine As Prevention + Treatment
We are at a pivotal point in the evolution of medicine where we are beginning to truly appreciate both the incredible power of modern technological medicine, but also its limits. More than 70% of all chronic diseases, which account for the majority of the burden of illness in Western countries, are preventable by making better lifestyle choices.
Why Do We Need Functional Medicine?
The most powerful question we can ask in medicine is “Why?” Why did this particular person get this form of illness at this particular point in time? This is the question we need to be asking more in the practice of modern medicine.
Stillness
As summer comes to a close, school will be starting soon for many, and this means a keenness on improving memory, concentration, mental sharpness and addressing anxiety. Osteopathically speaking, this has a lot to do with the nervous system and often times this will present as a buzz-like sensation through the central nervous system (CNS). This buzz, may be a result of an imbalance between the ‘fight and flight’ and ‘rest and digest’ aspect of our nervous system or may be a result of direct traumas, such as a concussion, whiplash or shock, to name a few.
HeartMath® – Unlocking the Power of a Coherent Heart
Your heart is an amazing organ, capable of pumping approximately 7000 liters of blood through your body every day. But did you know that your heart is much more than an efficient pump? Did you know that your heart has its own “little brain”? The advanced science of neurocardiology has proven that signals from this “little brain” greatly impact function of your “big brain”, affecting emotional processing and cognitive ability.
Summer Time Fun with the Kids
As the school year comes to a close, and the days get longer, one of summer’s most cherished garden accessories, the trampoline, gets put to good use. It’s a favorite among the kids, but also the cause of serious injuries.
Take A Break From Stress
We no longer live in a world of the occasional threat: 24/7 access to information, long work hours, driving in traffic, tough relationships, keeping up with the kids and for some, doing nothing – stress is everywhere.