Mind

When change happens in life, it can be a shock or a more subtle shifting under the surface. Either way, change can rewrite the rules and challenge your assumptions and expectations about what works, what the future holds and even how you perceive yourself.

Anxiety is said to be at epidemic levels in the West. How do you know if your stress levels are normal or spiralling out of control, and how can you use yoga to nurture your nervous system?

Needing help is not a weakness. Learn how to step beyond society’s love affair with self-reliance and embrace your vulnerabilities.

We’d all like our children to be brave, try new things and accept failure — but how can we nurture this? Here’s the advice of some of Australia’s top adventurers (and one of their mums!)

Hooked on a negative thought? Find out how yoga can help break unsupportive thought patterns, reroute mental circuits and change the way you think.

By medicalising your emotions, you reduce or minimise your true self and look to problem solve rather than to understand what is really going on for you. Learn how to stop fixing and start feeling again.

By quieting the mind, yoga can help you better hear and follow your inner voice, connect with your authentic self and reach your full potential.

By learning to surrender, one reader discovered he could transmute his darkness into creativity and peace.

Oscar Wilde is credited with saying, “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Easier said than done, perhaps. In a world where we are expected to look and act in a certain way, we end up pleasing everyone but ourselves. In order to belong we bury our true selves and this can lead to despair. So how would it feel if the only role you play this lifetime is to just be yourself?

FOCUS promotes mental functioning and thought, to help you ‘switch on’, naturally. Crammed with powerful herbs, including: Amla, Gotu Kola, Gingko Biloba, Green Tea and Vitamins B3, B9, B12, C and E.

A good book can be an absolute pleasure but research shows that the right book can also be a healing tool.

To be spiritually toxic is to be disconnected from your spirit. You don’t have to detox your spirit but you do need to clear away the clutter that has caused your disconnection.