Just in case you don’t know, by the end of this year 5G mobile networks will have been rolled out to London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Leeds, Hull, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leicester, Coventry and Bristol. After that,…
Living in a toxic soup So your New Year's resolutions are still firmly in place. You wake up early, go for a quick jog to the edge of your town or village, run home past fields full of growing crops…
Far from being a Superfood, as we all thought it was in the 70’s and 80’s, soy is something I now ask all my patients to avoid. So what’s wrong with it? Soy contains a cocktail of substances that interferes…
The Art of Happiness There is a fundamental difference in the way happy and unhappy people view the world. This colours their response to the events that take place around them because, quite simply, happy people see events in positive…
There is a link between the mind and the illness our body expresses and working on the body through the mind is a very powerful addition to healing, simply because the conflicts of the mind are continually acted out through…
I’m a Quaker. I have been for more than 20 years now. At the heart of the Quaker Meeting for Worship lies silence. Pierre Lacont describes the silence of the Meeting like this: ‘In silence which is active, the Inner…
I do yearly short silent retreats for two to four consecutive weeks on a regular basis at Gaia House in Devon and this November the skies have been particularly clear. Star light takes on a specific meaning when there are…
I was at a seminar recently where we were divided up into the usual predictable groups at which I confessed to my group I found what most people had to talk about stultifyingly boring or trivial. They were shocked. Many…
When I stood by my dead mother’s side once the hospice staff had readied her for her coffin I knew then there is an absolute silence in death. At that time of night the hospice was readying itself for sleep…
By avoiding gluten for just four short weeks you can induce a significant change in both the composition and the micro biome of the gut. This avoidance will cause a significant change in at least eight different bacterial families, the…