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What is your complexion telling you?

By Annie Moore | Published: April 26, 2013

There is a strong possibility that more women are suffering from a ‘poor complexion’ caused by their stressful modern lifestyles? Stress can affect the skin in many ways. It elevates hormone levels, induces acne, tends to trigger eczema and can age skin prematurely. When there is build up of toxins in your body it is reflected in your [...]

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Heal, Balance & Enliven Yourself

By Annie Moore | Published: January 20, 2013

Ever wondered why you are constantly feeling tired and fatigued? Perhaps you put it down to overwork, stress or just overdoing it! All of these assumptions may be true but they may not be the cause of your symptoms. There is a stronger possibility that your Chakras need balancing. The word Chakra in ancient Sanscrit [...]

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Essential Oils for Better Health

By Annie Moore | Published: September 16, 2012

The benefits of natural plant oils have been recognized for more than 6,000 years not only for their appealing fragrances, but also for their healing and mood enhancing properties. Too often today’s lifestyle is overwhelmed by stress, pollution, unhealthy diet, and inactivity. Now we can benefit from natural oils in our daily lives, to encourage [...]

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Manage Menopause Naturally

By Annie Moore | Published: August 5, 2012

Many cultures celebrate the hormonal change as a dawn of a new era in a woman’s life, revering the wisdom that comes with the years, but we in the west tend to associate it with a period of ‘identity crisis’ and negative attitudes. Often called the change of life the menopause is a natural event. [...]

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The Chakra balancing effect

By Annie Moore | Published: July 19, 2012

Chakra is a Sanscrit word meaning wheels, and is often depicted in pictures and charts as the sun with rays, or wheel swith spokes. Legend has it that many thousands of years ago, the Aryan army invaded India and rode in chariots. The wheels of the chariots lit up with bright lights as the new [...]

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A Pleasurable Pregnancy

By Annie Moore | Published: March 14, 2012

Pregnancy is a wonderful time for many women and is considered one of the most exciting and pleasurable experiences we can have.  Many women ‘know’ when they are pregnant.  This intuitive feeling is probably due to the early outpouring of female hormones, followed by the production of human chorionic ‘gondotrophin’ by fetal tissues as soon [...]

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Mind Over Matter – The practice of mindfulness meditation

By Annie Moore | Published: February 7, 2012

‘As I began 2012 with the glorious birth of my first grandson, it suddenly dawned on me that all too often as we go through life, we lose the aliveness that glows in the face of a healthy infant’. It seems the wonders of our early childhood dimly fade as we conform to the standards [...]

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‘All Knotted Up’ neck & shoulder muscular tension

By Annie Moore | Published: November 4, 2011

We’ve all had the experience of tension in our shoulders only to find the tension radiating from a knot in a particular muscle. These muscle knots are painful to the touch and can feel like someone actually tied our muscles up. But what are they? Muscles that form knots are muscles that have gone into [...]

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‘Less Stress More Balance’ – advice for a stress free lifestyle

By Annie Moore | Published: September 10, 2011

We are all striving for a more balanced and less stressful life, to include time for work, family, relationships, relaxation, and fun. Managing stress is about taking charge of our thoughts, emotions, schedule, environment, and the way we deal with problems. Do we make excuses for coping with stress? Do we explain away stress as [...]

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‘Talking Heads’ – manage and prevent headaches and migraines

By Annie Moore | Published: August 26, 2011

My brain never shuts off! I’m always thinking of something, maybe its important, maybe it’s not! In any event there’s always stuff going on in my head and it can get very stressful, so much so that I get a headache.  Many of us will develop a headache at some stage, usually as a result of [...]

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