Tag: Diabetes

  • Massage for Quality Sleep

    Namaste A massage is appreciated for many reasons, its sedative effect being one. Some of my clients require 2-hour massages during which they capitalize on their sleep, especially if they’ve been working long hours and can feel their sleep deficit beginning to require payment.  During a regular 1-hour massage there are those who look forward…

  • Stress Reduction

    Namaste It is important for us to appreciate that we process stress different because everyone is different. We must therefore try to understand how we perceive and respond to stress so that we can adapt the appropriate coping techniques for our circumstances. If allowed, stress can make us ill and keep us ill. One way…

  • Chakras and Crystals

    Namaste A Therapist sent me a message recently. It read: I have a few questions… How to use the chakras and meridians to bring healing to ourselves and our clients? Is there one particular crystal to use for all the chakras? I suggested that the chakras and the meridians can be likened to the circulatory…

  • Bad Breath

    This can be as a result of ingesting certain foods that release sulphur compound into the mouth and bloodstream, but it can often be a problem insufficient oral hygiene in which bacteria feed on the remaining food particles after a meal and the sulphur odour is given off as a digestive by-product. This is remedied…

  • Ageing

    We often associate aging with ill health and disability instead of embracing it as a natural process we will all experience and can positively embrace. It is said that most of the diseases we consider to be age-related are actually caused by lifestyle factors such as diet, exposure to environmental toxins, lack of exercise, distress,…

  • Massage and the Pain Factor

    Namaste What is pain? Many are turning to Massage Therapy as a means of alleviating pain, which should mean that Massage Therapists know what pain is and how to deal with it. But do they? I’ve long concluded that pain is mysterious. We have gadgets with which to see air, but pain holds exclusive rights…