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The devastation of loss can evoke physical symptoms, such as exhaustion, insomnia and, of course, crying. But it’s not just our bodies that are affected. Neuroscience reveals that grief rewires our brain. By understanding how, we can strive towards healthy healing after loss.
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Researchers have undertaken a genetic review of medicinal plants.
Taking the Macro view it’s back to work right now for thousands of people around the world as the holiday season is draws to a close. As a Westerner, for the Dark Mistress this is a time of living out those New Year resolutions – exercise, weight-loss, de-stressing, etc, and, being behind a digital media […]
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The Dark Mistress is surfacing from a successful weight-loss routine of daily yoga, fasting, detox and health education at the Dharma Healing Centre on Ko Samui. Weight-loss fasting leaves you a lot of time on your hands – once the tyranny of shopping for, preparing and eating food vanishes, you, well… get time to think. […]
Trees that provide frankincense, one of the wise men’s gifts for baby Jesus, may soon be extinct.
There is reason to believe that 2012 will be the year when we find another habitable planet.
The recent screening by SBS of “Did Cooking Make Us Human?” during my week of post-fast raw food has given cause for consideration of cooking, and meat. Coming off a fast, raw food is recommended. Eat raw, very little, one new fruit or vegetable at a time, no protein until the 7th day. It has […]
Do we really need to eat so much food? Who says? For most of us, eating is about the relentless search for satisfaction – nutrition happens to be a convenient side-effect. Desire for food is more fundamental than desire for sex. We engage with food three or more times a day, by adulthood most of […]
Making a specific type of plan will help you keep your new year’s resolutions.
True to her name the dark mistress of denial has started fasting this week. Yes – taking a genuine break from food. No food for a full 7 days. The program is supervised of course, and with a few herbs to help along the way… but what a great teacher is fasting. For a start […]
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