How to Quiet the Mental Chatter.

Universal instruction.

Many of my clients come to me with different concerns, but one recurring theme is the relentless inner dialogue that takes over after a stressful encounter. That endless mental chatter—the need to replay situations, argue internally, and seek justification— is exhausting.

Why Does This Happen? Let’s go back to basics. Imagine your colleague says something unpleasant, or a stranger on the train disrespects you. The situation is over, but internally, you keep replaying it. You continue the argument in your head, trying to prove a point, justifying yourself, or countering their words.

You may think you’re reasoning things out, but in reality, you’re caught in an emotional loop. The emotion essentially traps you—fuelling the same thoughts over and over while your inner tension builds.

Breaking the Cycle The first step to freeing yourself from this habit is understanding where your attention is going. When something happens, we instinctively focus on the outside world—we want to change the colleague’s attitude, teach that rude stranger a lesson, or make things right in some way.

But here’s the truth: the real struggle isn’t with them—it’s with you.

What’s actually unfolding inside is a battle between two parts of yourself:

·        The Real Self—the part of you that feels disrespected, undermined, or neglected.

·        The Ideal Self—the part that is all-knowing, all-powerful, and often, highly critical. The part that tells you: this is what you should have said/done!

The Ideal Self attacks, while the Real Self tries to defend itself as best it can. This is where the mental chatter takes over. And unless you shift your perspective, the cycle continues.

A New Perspective The way out is to stop identifying with the harsh voice of the Ideal Self and instead stand with your Real Self—the part of you that needs kindness, love, and understanding.

Ask yourself:

·        In what areas of my life do I disrespect myself?

·        Where do I lack trust in myself?

·        What steps can I take to build self-respect and confidence?

Energy Work Can Help Energy work is a powerful tool to help release emotional tension and reframe your perspective. If you’re ready to reconnect with your true self, book a kinesiology session with me. Let’s work together to bring balance and clarity into your life.

No. 1 thing to do to feel better about yourself

The exercise is called - MIRROR MIRROR. And I don't think you will find a better way to start feeling better about yourself.

So:

1. Take a mirror. Or sit in front of one. Look at yourself.
2. Then say out loud to yourself “Lisa (put your name here), my dear, I love you. I love you very, very much.”
3. Now look at yourself again and see yourself as a little child reflecting back.
4. Now say the same thing “.... I love you. I love you very, very much” again. But now change the tone and intonation. Speak softer, gentler – speak like you would speak to a lovely little child. You will notice that you start to believe your love-confession better.

Thats all.

The more you do it, the better it gets.

It looks simple, but it is extremely powerful...

Many people just cannot say this love-confession to themselves. Some just cry. Great!

If it is hard to talk like this to yourself, that just shows how heavily you judge yourself – either you want to fit into some vague societal standard or you take other people's opinions as the truth.

Stop this all. Profess your love to yourself. As Oscar Wilde said: to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Carry the mirror with you. Incorporate this exercise in your daily routine.

The best way to do this exercise is 5 minutes per go, twice a day. For at least a few weeks to really ground it in your psyche.... you'll notice the changes pretty soon.

You will start to notice that you become nicer and kinder to yourself. You will start to cherish yourself more... respect yourself more for who you are...

Apart from increased confidence, belief in self, better relationships... a few other side-effects of this exercise are :

• getting rid of or reducing long-held negative thoughts about yourself
• less annoying and frustrating people around you... How come? No, not that such people disappear, but you will not react to them as you did before... you will become kinder and gentler towards other people as well as yourself.
• you will start feeling better even physically.... Some minor ailments might disappear – those ailments that have a psychological basis.

Do the exercise and allow these good changes come into your life!

How Come Health Kinesiology Helps So Much?

Aches and pains of all kinds, discomforts, poor energy levels, sleep problems, fatigue, digestive disorders, skin problems, anxiety....

Why is it that Health Kinesiology can help so much?

The bottom line is that there are only a small number of underlying conditions which keep the symptoms running.

What are they? And how does kinesiology help?

For example, if there are any symptoms – pains, rashes, bloating, etc - that don't go away in the usual fashion (i.e. after waiting for a few days, taking some medications, taking longer rests, doing all the things that you would normally do, etc)... that tells us that there is something else going on that keeps the symptoms active or is even making them worse.

Otherwise the body would simply be able to deal with whatever comes. The body is amazing in its ability to heal itself.

And most commonly what's going on is one/some of the following:

• dehydration
• inflammation
• infection
• disbyosis
• mental/emotional stress
• shortage of oxygen
• toxicity
• ... a few other things or combination of the above
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• In kinesiology we address these underlying conditions by restoring a free flow of energy. No stagnation means no blocks.. And that is where all the focus of a session lies- addressing energy imbalances or blockages- whatever the amount of symptoms.

Use this numerical amulet - and be your own magical Beauty Queen

This numerical amulet has a real power to enhance the efficiency of any cosmetic cream. Or facial. Or body butter..

How it achieves this – nobody knows. The mystery of its efficiency has not been solved yet... (Almost like with health kinesiology – it works wonders.. but how exactly? With all the knowledge about the human body in bio-chemical, electromagnetical, quantum terms.. etc.. any explanation would not reveal the whole beauty of the experience)

Most importantly – the amulet really works and really guarantees a quick, immediate (not gradual) improvement of skin. Face, neck, chest.. And it gets only better and better.

Just one more thing ...(I've been watching too much Columbo)

It is not just about creams and facials. Yes, they have the ability to improve the condition of skin, but the full power comes into force only when used together with a mental approach combining three energies:

• the energy of the numerical amulet (crystal)
• energy of a specific command
• energy of our focus

A little applied magic, so to say.

Learn this mental approach and use it with any facial or body cream . And you will see how two effects come into life:

• literally in front of your eyes the skin improves ( structure, moisture, colour, elasticity)
• the overall feeling of wellness is enhanced.

Yes, this mental approach is very easy.

However, do not be fooled by its easiness. In reality, each time when you do this mental technique, you will connect to the very powerful force within yourself – your own subconscious. (And you know that all kinesiological techniques that we do are exactly talking to your subconscious mind).

You will need only three things

• numerical amulet
• verbal command to give to your skin
• concentration and focus for 1 minute.

Look – step by step procedure:

1. take the jar of your cosmetic or facial cream
2. put this jar over the amulet (print out this picture). They say – it is structured in such a way that it channels light.
3. and then while standing by it, with closed eyes repeat the command for about 60 seconds:
   “This cream (facial.. etc) fills my skin with the energy of light. My skin rejuvenates and becomes ideally beautiful. (You know all creams contain water and water instantly changes its structure to the sound or thought or intention)
4. then make 3 full breaths in and out
5. put the cream on the skin
6. and allow the cream to soak in in peace.

That's it.

P.S. by the way – you can improve any cream by adding either liquid VitB complex (always use new drops) or some appropriate essential oil: Palma Rosa or Jasmine for dry skin, Clary sage or Orange for oily skin.

Let's be beautiful and powerful!

Prone to Hayfever?

Daffodils are here - spring has arrived. Flowers and leaves and grass, – all that great life is coming out!

Also, allergies re-emerge, triggered by pollen. And for millions of people:

- eyes start to water

- nose starts to run

- coughing and sneezing won't stop.

There are many anti-histamine remedies that people start to use. And good for them if they help. Medication is a great fix – no argument there.

However, anti-histamines often stop working when people use them in very high doses or too often. And they don't heal you – they just cover up whatever is going on in that body of yours.

Health Kinesiology can make a lasting change and help you overcome the symptoms naturally and effectively.

So if you or somebody whom you know wants to deal with this, book an appointment now, and Dig Deeper.

Also – if you are not sure what kinesiology all is about, you can book a Taster session. Just e-mail me.

Fluctuating energy levels throughout the day?

There is a normal ebb and flow of energy throughout the day which is affected by many factors including blood-sugar fluctuations, activity times of organs and many other things.

Often the loss of energy feels so drastic that one cannot properly function and many people instinctively start to drink coffee throughout the whole day. They know it's not good for them in the long term. And yet – they must go on. In fact, this is a fairly typical psychological portrait of a person who suffers with conditions like ME, Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia etc. 

To help balance the energy levels throughout the day in a more natural way I will give just one recommendation and it has nothing to do with Health Kinesiology. 

I've come across Guayusa tea which comes from the Amazonian rainforests and can be bought online at Amazon.

All the people I know who have tried it report how much more balanced and focused they feel  throughout the day. I've also tried it and I like it very much – it has quite a savoury quality to it.

There are two options – bagged and loose tea.
The tea bagged in the pyramid bags is more intense. So I prefer this. It can be poured over at least twice  without losing its quality. Also, on the third go it is still reasonably good. However, I cannot get the loose tea to reach the intensity of the bagged tea and I have tried with various methods.

So if you suffer from fluctuating energy levels or drink too much coffee or just feel like trying an interesting, tasty and healthy alternative, check it out!

If you're wondering – I do not get any commission for recommending this product. It's just an amazing product which I think can benefit lots of people.

And if you want more help with your energy levels, please contact me to book an appointment where we can hopefully bring about swift resolution.

How can Health Kinesiology help?

Health kinesiology is based on the belief that we have multiple energy pathways within our bodies. If there is a restriction or blockage of our energy, then illness, disease, and imbalances may occur.
Treatment can remove any blockages and promote a more balanced, natural state of being, which encourages our life force to flow freely again.

Don't fool yourself that its ok, woman... It's not.

Feeling sick during pregnancy is your body's way of communicating important information.

I can't shout this out loudly enough – it's an illusion to think that its ok to feel sickly in the first 3 months of pregnancy!

You've been told that it's normal. And that many women do feel sickly when pregnant..

But ask yourself why? Why would that be? And why is it that so many others don't feel that way?

What the sick feelings tell (on a physical level) is that the woman's body is so toxic that the arrival of a small, tiny foetus, creates a toxicity overload. A woman then feels sick, almost as though she had been poisoned.

I know – I am using strong words, but nowadays we are all practically living in a soup of toxicity. There are environmental toxins (heavy metals, chemicals, electromagnetical forces, microbes, fungi, viruses, molds... etc etc check www.ewg.org), and there are what our own bodies produce as byproducts of simply living. They all need to be detoxified. The detoxification organs and pathways must be in tip-top condition.

Many respected figures in the scientific community argue that the levels of our outer and inner toxicity have reached the absolute limits that our bodies can tolerate.

However, living with toxicity doesn't always noticeably impair a person's life. For a long time we can function as normal. It's something like walking along the edge of the cliff in a mist without realising where you are.

But not for expectant mothers. Her toxicity load is revealed as soon as she becomes pregnant.

The more sick she feels, the higher her toxicity.

Why would that be?

Well, first things first – the non-negotiable:

Your body's first and foremost priority is its own self-survival. Always.

And now imagine – your body's toxic load is high.

And suddenly a foetus arrives with its own needs for growth and metabolism.

The mother-to-be now has to process the metabolic byproducts of the tiny foetus. 

She also has to deal with the added toxicity the foetus brings. 

The foetus can't help because in the first 3 months it doesn't have any organs or systems of its own. And the placenta is not yet fully formed. So all the metabolic by-products of the foetus go directly into mother-to-be's bloodstream, rapidly increasing her toxic load. And so the woman feels sick.

The mother's body often perceives the foetus as a threat to its own survival in these cases..

Early miscarriages are the consequence of huge previous toxic overload, so that the body decides to expel the foetus rather than put its own survival at real risk.

But don't fool yourself if you feel better after 3 months. The toxicity has not disappeared. It is still the same – at a high level. If the pregnancy goes the full term and nothing has been done to help the body detoxify during the pregnancy, then the toxicity will be revealed during breastfeeding.

The substrate for milk is taken from blood. But if it's toxic... the newborn baby simply may refuse to drink that milk. Or vomit it out. Or do whatever else it needs to do to protect itself from toxicity..

Again – don't fool yourself that everything is ok. It is not. This can lead to increased risks of developing auto-immune disorder or other chronic diseases later in life that are fuelled by the body's toxic levels.

So if you feel sick during the early stages of pregnancy, don't just believe what you've been told and accept it as normal. IT IS NOT NORMAL!!!

Take steps to eliminate toxicity and to improve your inner environment for your own benefit and for the benefit of the tiny life that is growing within you.

You can contact me.

Want Your Own TUNING FORK For Life?

Lately I've found that many of my clients are entering into a deep relaxation state during their session or during certain parts of the session.

And they say afterwards:

- I did not feel that I was lying on the couch.

- I wasn't asleep – I was all the time very aware of what was going on.

- What was it? I was so much here and now – I recall every little detail what was going on within me and around me.

And so on.

I just witness their deep relaxed state of being while doing the HK corrections.

I am happy for them. According to research by Dr. Barbara Braun, if any therapeutic work is being done while the brain is working in this deeply relaxed state, aka “the alpha brainwaves”, then the rejuvenation and healing increases by up to 10 times.

But deep relaxation on its own is so very beneficial. And we all know it.

When you relax, the parasympathetic nervous system switches on and that is linked to better digestion, memory and immunity, among other things.

It is like a tuning fork for your brain and your body – getting back to normal functioning - healing and rejuvenation.

So why don't we do it?

- We don't have time for that..

So how could we get into practising the best self-help that there is?

- And find that time....

A few tips -

• allow yourself just 5 minutes a day of doing nothing. (You can read about this in my previous blog HERE....). Every day.
• and then increase this over time - allow yourself just 5 minutes two times a day of doing nothing. Every day. These 5 minutes in your day can be like a comma in the middle of the sentence separating different activities or parts of the day.

In such a way you will also learn to allow time for yourself. And not busy running around like a rabbit in spotlights.

To paraphrase a Zen Buddhist quote - allow yourself at least 5 or 10 minutes a day to relax. But if you can't find 5 or 10 minutes, then allow yourself 20.:) (I love this)

• And then learn from some guided meditations - youtube is full of them. Like Body Scan, Breathing meditation, relaxation, healing meditation... Just do it regularly so that with time you will not need the guided ones any more. 
   
  In fact, there are plenty of methods to achieve a deep relaxation. I don't know any bad ones. It is just about getting into the habit of doing them.

The trick is not to fall asleep and not to engage in any other activity.

Because deep relaxation isn't the sort of switching off you do relaxing with a cup of tea or lounging with a magazine on the sofa. 

 

What you're looking for is a state of deep relaxation where tension is released from the body on a physical level and your mind completely switches off.

Be good to yourself - commit yourself!

And come and see me if you need any help. 

DON'T FEEL THE FEAR, DON'T DO IT ANYWAY

Last week I attended an interesting event which addressed the subject of healing accumulated traumas. It was a very informative experience- just one thing did not sit well with me during the event – “Exposure Therapy”.

Let me tell you what happened in sequence.

A young woman had sat quietly throughout the evening and at the end she revealed that she suffered from social anxiety.

What happened next almost knocked me off of my feet.

She was brought into the centre of the group and we were all encouraged to say how beautiful and brave she was. We applauded her and encouraged her to enjoy being in the spotlight.

Then she was slowly turned around her axis so that everyone could see her and appreciate how good and brave she was. She went with the flow exactly of what she was encouraged to do.

Then she was asked to hug somebody. Anybody towards whom she felt drawn.

She said, “I don't give hugs”.

So the leader hugged her and she had to hug her back. She then was asked again to go and hug anybody else from the group. The young woman did not want to do it. So the leader hugged her again.

That was exposure therapy in its simplest form - Feel the fear but do it anyway.

It may work for some. But it certainly doesn't work for everyone.

For many, no matter how many times you go into a social situation with pure willpower, you will generally stumble on the same old same rake – your nervous system will automatically go into high alert: “Danger! Danger!” and you enter either freeze or flight mode.

It's just automatic response. Pure physiology. And it's there to protect you before you even “put your finger in the fire”.

When you put your finger into fire, you quickly learn to pull your finger out of danger. Learning not to put the finger in fire takes only one episode.

Social anxiety is learned over a much longer period of time - from childhood.

If you were rejected a lot, you began to feel that you weren't good enough.

If you were always blamed for everything, you started to believe you were a bad kid.

If you were never acknowledged, or always ignored, you started to believe that you were invisible. Or unimportant. That you don't count.

If you were always criticized, you started to believe there was something wrong with you.

And so on.

These repetitive negative experiences from early childhood combine to create a deep picture of oneself which becomes ingrained in one's psyche and can cause you to feel uncomfortable in your own skin or to lack self-worth.

Or even not to feel safe being who you are.

For many, these feelings cannot be overridden by willpower alone. And in fact, the reason why people seek out various therapies is because of different feelings. They are having feelings they don't like in quantities they can't handle. They can't fix the problem, and they are fed up.

Even more – the reason why for many people willpower does not help much is because a lot of processes for action actually happen outside of our conscious awareness.

Instead of “Feeling the fear and doing it anyway”, first of all, you need to deal with resistance and with a network of different un-named fears and triggers which can cause your nervous system to go a bit haywire before entering a challenging situation.

That is how Health Kinesiology and many other therapies tend to work with people with anxiety.

This may not be as dramatic as simple exposure. It can be a longer journey and a deeper process but usually with much better and more lasting results. You may be surprised how different a situation feels then. And you will feel good about yourself whatever happens.

Otherwise the whole thing about “Feeling the Fear But Doing it Anyway” simply reinforces the idea that one cannot be helped.

A very special July offer

Only £ 30 for a session for one week starting July 10-17. 

Celebrating your birthday this month? Many happy returns!What do we know about the general health and health risks for babies born in July?

Based on statistical research by the University of Columbia, covering almost 2 million people's medical records between 1900 and 2000, there's some great news::

• babies born in July are, along with May babies, statistically less at risk of contracting any specific major illnesses than those born in other months.

One or two smaller clouds on the horizon :

• there is a slightly higher than average risk of developing asthma
• and women born in July are slightly less fertile. Very slightly.

Of course, the risk of disease depends on a huge number of factors, not just the environment that we are born into, or the actions of our parents while expecting us.

July can be a funny month here in Belfast.

Some people will be out enjoying the 12^th celebrations while others will flee the city, even the country, to get away from it. But if you are still at home and not out marching and you have any health concerns that you haven't resolved, you can always contact me to book an appointment where we can address these issues and bring about the resolution you need.

In addition, with this being a quiet time of year for businesses here – I still have a few slots available next week- so I am making a very special July offer – only £ 30 for a session for one week starting July 10-17.

Amazing bodies

How amazing it is when you have a little epiphany and make a discovery about yourself and what you do!

It's common for people starting out in many vocations and professions to view their role in a certain way. And then as time passes to gradually realise that what they are doing is actually quite different from what they had first assumed.

Initially, I saw my role as a health kinesiologist as being like a translator of what your body wants or needs to be healthy and happy.

Now, I'm beginning to feel more like an exorcist. An energy exorcist :)

There is plenty of knowledge about energy channels and meridians and about blocked energies and so on. But nothing compares to the actual experience of freeing that blocked, trapped energy from tissues, cells and energy centres.

And this is why I feel a bit like an exorcist: I can hold a magnet (just as an example) over some point and the client just tells me what is going on – e.g. internal heat, shooting pains, moving stomachs, twitching legs and hands, 'arctic' colds in head or feet... you name it!

And the body is so happy to release all that trapped energy and to be back in its proper, natural flow again.

Meanwhile, I stand to one side and observe... And I am still in awe of what people's bodies are generating.

And that's why I love doing Health Kinesiology!

One for you to try at home... This really works!

 So you or somebody around you has some pain. Or discomfort. 

As many times – it appears unexpectedly. Things happen. Or maybe you need to wait for help. And you would like the pain to go away. Or, if it's a regular occurrence, to get instant relief until you find a lasting resolution.

So in Hawaii, where alas I have never been, there is a simple yet effective method. It can be used with children and adults or as a self-healing technique. All you need to remember are the power points of the body and three steps for use.

Power points: 

crown, 

brow, 

chest, 

back of neck, 

navel, 

base of spine,

shoulders, 

hips, 

palms and soles. 

They are easy to remember, since they correspond to the seven major chakras, plus the 'corners' of the trunk – hips, shoulders – and the extremities – palms, soles.

The three steps to do is:

1. Energise yourself – that is , get your own energy flowing well. A quick method is to rub your hands together briskly.
2. Put one of your hands on the affected area (wherever the discomfort is), and the other hand on a distant but comfortable-to-reach power point. This power point must be pain-free. For example, it it's a child with a bruised knee, put one hand on the knee, and the other on the child's forehead or shoulder.
3. Focus on your hands and breathe normally Don't try to send energy, or try to do anything. Continue for a minute or two. If the person doesn't feel any change within twenty seconds or so, try another power point.

Why it works?

Healing occurs simply because you are completing a circuit of energy, so that energy starts to flow through the affected area again. You are restoring the flow - and when you are in the flow, as I say, you notice good things happening again. If energy flows normally, there will be no symptoms.

That actually, very shortly put, is what  I do when doing Health Kinesiology – restoring the flow. I just help it by removing anything that stands in its way. The body has an extraordinary ability to heal itself and it knows how to bring itself back to 100% functioning given the proper conditions.

Surely, if the pain is regular, give it a go and contact me and let's see what we can do using more 'advanced' methods.

Habits are the very reason why people make New Years resolutions

Happy Christmas everyone and thanks to all my clients – past and current – for a fabulous year! 

 

I have just returned from London where I attended a course in advanced kinesiology and learned some brilliant new techniques and corrections. 

Let me tell you about one procedure which I find particularly exciting.

It's about Habit change. 

To break off from some habit whatever that might be.

Habits are often the very reason people need and want to make new year's resolutions in the first place.

The Habit change in health kinesiology is not exactly a correction on its own, it is more of a process which can involve a combination of energy work and homework for you to do on your own and which is really effective. 

The really surprising thing for me was that I broke my own 'bad habit' (which I'm slightly ashamed of :) so I won't mention it here) right there and then. Since I came back from London – just the thought of doing it feels wrong.

So what exactly are Habits?

They are part of the way we automate our everyday living. If we had to consciously control every aspect of our lives we would be unable to survive. Just imagine working out each little step of the process of eating, for example! 

Unfortunately, we also have 'bad' habits that have outlived themselves or are simply annoying to ourselves or others.

Like some physical habits – biting fingernails.. picking nose...speaking with mouth full...biting pen... sleeping with makeup on.. spitting... biting lips ... fiddling with hair.... or with keys.... cheek biting...

Verbal habits – actual words or sounds such as 'er' 'um' 'ah' said... Or stammering.. Swearing... Lying.. Even a quiet Self criticism...

Behavioural habits - watching reality TV, emotional shopping, smoking, overeating or drinking etc

They may be even  “habits of omission”, e.g. Not smiling enough. Not holding eye contact .

Yes, there is plenty of advice around on how to stick to your commitments if you want to break a habit. 

 

But, sometimes will-power is not enough especially if the habit has been set up in early years. 

So if you are struggling with some habit, come and finally tackle those unwanted habits!  

You may well want to take advantage of this winter's New Year Package for yourself and your loved one's.

New Year Package Offer

Enjoy 5 sessions of Health Kinesiology for a discounted price of £ 170 (a saving of £30)!

The package can be either used solely for yourself or may also be shared between loved ones or close friends.

The Package is valid for 12 months from the date of purchase.

The offer is available for habit-breaking (i.e. you may find that your own habit is broken after a couple of sessions and a friend or family member can use the remaining sessions to work on their habits) or for general issues.

You can still buy Aulterra Neutralizers  

the fancy looking 'stickers' which reduce the harmful effects of electromagnetic fields from mobile phones and other small electronic devices. I can also test them for you.

You can get them directly from me - until the end of the year for just £6 per neutralizer or 3 for £15 (normal price is £7 each or £18 for 3).

So contact me to get your stockings filled and your children and yourself protected :)

I am closed from 24th-26^th December and from 31^st - 1^st January but aside from that it's business as usual during the festive season

Have yourselves a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The Controversial Coffee Question: EXPLAINED.

To drink coffee? Or to abstain? What about instant coffee? Maybe decaf?

Sometimes clients ask me questions like “Is it ok to drink coffee?”

Well, the short answer is YES! (unless you are in some way intolerant to coffee or your body is not processing it well- which I can easily test).

Everyone else who likes coffee can drink it guilt-free. Coffee is not “the bad guy”. Contrary to common opinion, it has never caused gastritis or any other digestive issues. The causes of such things never lie on the surface.

There are, however, just a few things to bear in mind.

1. Coffee is an excellent diuretic. Within a half an hour you have to go to toilet. Coffee dehydrates the body. So along with coffee always drink water, otherwise you lose more valuable water than you take in. If you ever take a holiday in Italy, you'll see this wherever you go– along with their coffee they also have a glass of water.

2. While coffee is not in itself a “bad guy”, it often keeps bad company - sugar and milk:

Sugar – because of all the hormone and blood vessel disruptive properties, and milk - for increased production of phlegm and hormone disruptive properties as well. So try to teach yourself to drink coffee black. The only downside to that is that the coffee then really must be good and not some liquid filth that needs sugar and milk to be drinkable.

So bearing all that in mind, what's good about coffee for your health and wellbeing ?

• According to the latest research, caffeine containing coffee strengthens blood vessels and the heart as well as lowering blood pressure. Yes, yes – it actually lowers blood pressure (that's why if you wake up during the night, have a cup, despite it being a stimulant, you will actually find that it is much easier to fall back to sleep) (This research was done on 430,000 people over several decades.)
• it also turns out that for people who drink one cup of coffee a day liver cirrhosis happens 23% less than for those who don't drink coffee at all.
• Coffee is also a great psycho-stimulant meaning it helps to mobilise our short-term memory. It is this memory that we use most often in our daily lives. In cases of Alzheimer's for example – it is the operational memory that gets lost – e.g. the sufferer cannot remember where they put the keys... cannot remember why they were going to the kitchen etc.... 2-3 cups a day is not proven to prevent this but mobilising one's short-term memory regularly may slow down the process of memory loss and possibly postpone it slightly.
• Other research (done in Switzerland and Sweden) suggests that caffeine can prevent breast cancer, because it attaches to the same receptor sites where the 'evil' chemicals want to attach themselves.

All these good things relate only to caffeine containing coffee.

Where is the most caffeine?

In ground coffee? In instant coffee? Or coming out of those fancy capsule coffee machines?

It turns out that instant coffee contains more caffeine than the natural ground coffee.

But the coffee made in the fancy capsule coffee machines have the maximum possible caffeine. In addition – since the coffee capsules retain most of the essential oils that are extracted properly under high pressure – that coffee is indeed the pleasure to drink.

So – make your day with a guilt-free cup of coffee or two! And drink lots of water:)

A disclaimer – I am not lobbying now coffee industry or capsule coffee machine industry. Just pure facts based on research. As with everything else in life, I try to enjoy coffee in moderation. And I drink some Japanese Green tea and herbal teas and keffir with honey and berries throughout my day.

Natural birth - nature's vaccination for life

You might have recently seen the BBC documentary about the U.K.'s only private maternity hospital, the Portland Hospital where prices start from £ 8000. Even more surprising to me was the fact that 50% of births there are Caesarian sections.

At the Portland, the mother chooses how she wants her baby to be delivered. Watching the programme it definitely seemed to me like the first priority was the mother's comfort, but not exactly the baby's best interests.

But nowadays there is a giant study made in Denmark, covering 2 million Danish children born over a period of 39 years between 1973 and 2012. The survey quite substantially shows that babies who enter the world through a Caesarean delivery face much greater risks of developing a range of chronic immune disorders caused by defects in the immune system, compared to people delivered naturally.

People born by C-section, more often suffer from chronic disorders such as asthma, rheumatism, allergies, bowel disorders and dermatitis than people born naturally.

It does not mean that children who are born via C-section will definitely develop any of these immune disorders, but the risk is quite high when compared with people that are borne naturally. You can read about this survey here..

http://sciencenordic.com/giant-study-links-c-sections-chronic-disorders

They mention that the cause for this correlation is not known. However, some basic knowledge of natural healing can show some potential reasons for this.

Just look at how a natural birth happens.

A baby leaves a sterile womb and starts to move through their mother's vagina. It collects bacteria, and all kind of germs on its way out in the world. Then the baby makes its first cry and, watch out – the entire collection of its mother's germs and bacteria go directly into its mouth and then down to the intestines... Practically the first natural vaccine towards dealing with all that you may come into contact is happening right then and like that. Even more – when the baby takes its mother's milk, it is so very familiar already, and its body knows how to deal with it and with many other things. This is the beginning of forming a life long immunity.

What happens during a c-section by comparison? 

A baby is taken out of a sterile womb and placed directly into a sterile hospital surroundings. But everything in this new world is strange. Nothing is familiar. And some babies may find it very challenging to start building the immune system on their own – without the initial support of their mothers germs and bacteria.

Surely, if there are medical reasons for c-section, then no doubt it is in everyone's best interests to do it. And being born from a c-section doesn't mean that you won't have a full, happy and healthy life.

Just as being born naturally doesn't automatically guarantee perfect health. And I really hope that this doesn't come across as being judgemental towards people who have C-sections for whatever reasons but if there is any choice in what kind of birth to have to give a baby the best possible chance of enjoying great health, then the best option is to give birth naturally.

The documentary also brought up the issue of pain. A nurse, or a midwife just mentioned there that some pain must be present when delivering a baby when a woman wanted a completely pain-free delivery. And yes, pain during the process of childbirth is necessary for many reasons... but maybe next time I'll talk about them... In the meantime, I ll go and check up on the next episode on BBC.