Complementary Therapy Clinic

February 2012

Shake the Blues & have a laugh! A good laugh reduces mental, emotional and physical tension.

The sound of laughter is far more infectious than a cold or flu. Laughter triggers change in the body; from strengthening your immune system, boosting your energy and reducing stress levels. Nothing works more rapidly or more reliably to bring your mind, body and spirit back into balance.

The gift to laugh easily and frequently is a wonderful resource for stress by supporting both physical and emotional health. There are many diseases and adverse conditions such as stress and fatigue. where laughter works better than any actual medicine.

Laughter can actually reduce the amount of stress hormones your body releases; these hormones can have a detrimental effect on your heart and other areas of your body.In fact, research shows that good humor and laughter may:

Buffer you against depression
Reduce stress and the impact of stress on the body
Improve self-esteem
Reduce loneliness and increase bonding with others
Improve quality of life, even for people coping with cancer or chronic disease
Increase immunity—your body's ability to fight infection
Improve pain tolerance

Laughter and being in good humour may also reduce your risk for heart disease and heart attack.Here are a few more points to show how laughter is the best medicine:

Laughter relaxes the whole body and good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress.
Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases the protection of the immune system therefore, improving your resistance to disease.
Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, Endorphins promote a sense of well-being.
Laughter protects the heart. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow.

Therapy……

Complementary Therapies/Aromatherapy. Scents Can Encourage a Good Mood

Essential oils are one of the most versatile ways to create the life and mood you truly desire. Whether you use them in diffusion, massage, inhalation, or bath, essential oils will help enhance happiness and amusement.Essential oils enhances energy and happiness. Aromatherapy helps to revive, and invigorates, and enhances optimism.

Colour Therapy Change Your Dress Code!How would you feel in a world that showed only shades of black and white? At any given moment, colors are influencing your life, moods, and emotions. Colors also affect your overall health and well-being-even subconsciously we wear colors that represent our mood of the day. Each color possesses a specific "vibration" or frequency that corresponds to our chakra system. The colors we wear play with our moods, thus attracting what we put out.

Get some perspective, allowing you to see situations in a more realistic, less threatening light. A humorous perspective creates psychological distance, which can help you avoid feeling overwhelmed.

Laugh at yourself. The best way to take ourselves less seriously is talk about times when we took ourselves too seriously.

A happy mind leads to a happy body and soul. And there are hardly many things that can result in more happiness than a genuine dose of laughter. Laughter makes you feel good and the good feeling that you get when you laugh remains with you even after the laughter subsides by keeping a positive, cheerful and optimistic outlook through difficult situations.

Whilst every intention has been made to make this article accurate and informative it is intended for general information only. The tips given in this article are not intended as a substitute for the advice of your doctor or a qualified medical practitioner. If you have any concerns regarding your health you should seek the advice of your doctor immediately.

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January 2012

How to overcome a lack of motivation in the New Year!

Intervention could be the order of the day/month/year to overcome a lack of motivation and drive. Stop and intervene. It is better to take the time to change the way you feel. By applying these simple motivation techniques, you will be able to supercharge your energy levels!

Keep Your Energy Up! - After setting your goals you might experience times where you do not have the energy to carry on. The most common technique for motivating yourself or others is to formulate a plan by setting goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-managed.

Stay Positiveand have some fun- Change the way you think,this will help you have all the energy in the world .For example, some people set exciting goals like losing weight.To achieve that goal, going to the gym regularly may be the answer. If the gym does not appeal to you , then find alternative and healthy methods to lose weight as long as it’s fun, for instance organising a salsa evening.

Adjust you're thinking. Make yourself feel the way you do. Expand your mind, listen, read and regain or learn new skills.

Take the Time-For each major goal you set, track your progress and reward yourself! There is nothing wrong in treating yourself after accomplishing what you have achieved.

Set small goals -Make sure they're realistic and small enough so that you can actually make headway and achieve them.

Reassess, Review and evaluate Take a look at who is around you in your daily life. Are they positive or negative? Helpful or hurtful? Toxic or healthy? Keep positive people near you at all times and purge the rest.

“Just do it!” You don’t have to wait to feel motivated, just start doing the simple things first. You don’t have to look at the big picture first, look at what you can do right NOW.

Complementary Therapies can help improve your levels of fitness, energy and well being. A great addition for the New Year! Mind and body are inseparable and our physical health is very important for our overall sense of well-being.Our mental health can be affected by our physical health and vice versa and this is why it is vital that we take a holistic approach to recovery.

There are many ways we can all promote and protect our physical and mental health: Aromatherapy, Reflexology, Indian Head Massage(to name a few) are wonderful treatments to boost your motivation and commitment for the year ahead.

Read and give yourself a Mantra, inspiring quotations or a passage from an author that has experienced a similar path to one that you want to travel.

Whilst every intention has been made to make this article accurate and informative it is intended for general information only. If you have any medical conditions, this article is not intended as a substitute for the advice of your doctor or a qualified medical practitioner. If you have any concerns regarding your health you should seek the advice of your doctor immediately.