Vol 4 Issue 65

The Art of Healing

Your guide to health and healing alternatives

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Editor’s Note
Hi again. How are you going? I hope as I write this note that you are keeping well and keeping a close eye on your health. Over the past 3 months, since I last wrote, I have had a couple of my own health issues to grapple with, which have luckily bee
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Five Smoothie Mistakes
Smoothies are a fantastic and easy way to get a big dose of nutrients in the morning. They can be made in less than five minutes and taken on the go making them super easy to fit into a busy morning routine. Recently smoothies have been making quite
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ARTHRITIS Isolating. Debilitating. Destructive.
While most Australians might know a relative, friend or acquaintance living with arthritis, few are completely aware of the debilitating and isolating consequences that come from living with the disease. Canberra resident, Janine Monty, was an active
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Topical Black Seed Oil Beats Tylenol for Pain Relief in Osteoarthritis
The tiny black seed strikes again! Even orally administered Tylenol can’t compete with the topical application of this potent healing oil to reduce symptoms of one of the most common health complaints of our time. Recently, over-the-counter ‘pain-ki
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Royal Commission Needs To Investigate Quality Of Palliative Care For The Aged
Palliative Care Australia (PCA) CEO Liz Callaghan is calling on the Royal Commission into aged care to closely examine the diverse needs of consumers, families, carers, aged care staff and service providers in providing palliative and end-of-life car
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7 Facts About Depression That Will Blow You Away
The human body interacts in its environment with deep intelligence. Your body creates symptoms for a reason. Depression is a meaningful symptom of a mismatch, biologically, with lifestyle - we eat a poor diet, harbour too much stress, lack sufficient
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10 Ways To Protect Your Brain From Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s. The mere mention of the word sends shivers down our collective spines. Millions have been touched by it, having witnessed the devastation up close with loved ones who’ve been diagnosed. It is, as we all know, a grim picture, so it’s impe
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ACTIVATED CHARCOAL 15 Benefits and Uses for Health and Wellness
Activated charcoal is a hot topic in health and wellness these days, gaining recognition as a powerhouse agent for detoxification with a wide range of potential uses. We see activated charcoal in everything from facial masks and teeth whiteners to di
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Surgery And Medication Not Always The Answer For Osteoarthritis
Guidelines released by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) advise that surgery should be considered as the last resort for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis and that exercise is the most effective treatment for Australian
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - The Invisible Illness
It is estimated that approximately 17 million people worldwide are affected by CFS. Young adults are more commonly affected, with a peak age of onset between 20-40 years. Women are 2-4 times more likely than men to be diagnosed. The main symptom is f
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We Have A Choice
“Shit happens.” I remember seeing this saying on a bumper sticker and loving it. I have always felt its accuracy in describing life. Today, when I scan the news and take in the problems of the world, I find myself repeating these profound words - shi
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Morally Insane?
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is second only to Alzheimer’s in the number of people it affects. Around one-fifth of all early onset (younger than fifty) dementia is FTD. And while it is called dementia, it rarely results in loss of memory, language o
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Case Study: John, The Ftd Patient
This is a description of a patient, let’s call him John, whose FTD was confirmed by court-ordered testing. John, sixty, was a former college professor with no previous criminal history. Since his mid-fifties, John’s behaviour had changed significantl
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Living With PCOS
At 26, I was in what many would consider to be the prime of my life. Young, carefree, revelling in Sydney life and excelling - to say the least - as a sought-after marketing contractor. I was heavily interested in my health, and was an eager entrepre
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Natural News From Abroad
Natasha Ednan-Laperouse was just 15 when she died as a result of a severe allergic reaction to sesame seeds hidden in a baguette bought from global food chain Pret a Manger. It was revealed during the inquest that the baguette did not have any allerg
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How Can We Heal In These Challenging Times?
In the late 1980’s I read a book entitled; When Society Becomes an Addict by Anne Wilson Schaef (1987). This book had a profound effect on me then and continues to do so. At the time she was talking about the U.S. culture under President Reagan. Here
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MISCONCEPTIONS about Yoga
Yoga is a pure Sanskrit/Nepali word meaning to add or to connect with the supreme divine soul. Until today the word yoga was used as a mathematical term in Nepal and all the terminology of yoga belonged to the Nepali language. Yoga is the journey fro
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Big Misconceptions
(1) It is a big misconception among yoga practitioners that they use the terms Guru or Baba to any humans who have a long beard and ashes on the forehead. He can be your spiritual guide, master, teacher only. Guru is the Sanskrit word meaning ‘The Di
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End-of-life
In 2003 a confirmed total of 105 people crossed Aokigahara’s boundary to die by suicide, up from the previous year’s tally by twenty-seven. It hasn’t always been this way. Historically, the forest’s darkest secret was its occasional use by local comm
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Re-Treating
It is about a 7-hour flight from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur (KL), then another 1 ½ hours from KL to Koh Samui. So I was happy to finally touch down at the airport and be greeted by a lovely young man from Kamalaya Retreat in his mini-bus, who transpor
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Recipes
SERVES: 4 This is the dish Patrick Dempsey’s character tells Renée Zellweger’s Bridget Jones that he would have brought her on their imaginary second date in the film ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby.’ “From Ottolenghi,” says Dempsey, “delicious and healthy!”
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Reviews
by Melinda Carbis-Reilly Diggin’ Your Dark Side is a refreshingly raw and open look at how depression can take a healthy person to a place of despair and suffering so profound that suicide feels like the only option to escape. Through this autobio
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On In TUITION
There always seems to be a lot of confusion around the concept of intuition and even though we use our intuition on a daily basis, people often tend to think of it as being something airy-fairy, mystical or even paranormal. However, people will say w

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