Varvara Dranidis talks about hygge

Our wellness and health coach Varvara Dranidis shares her 10 top strategies to stay calm and on an even keel mentally and emotionally. Connect with friends and family frequently even if it’s just sending an emoji on WhatsApp. Use positive affirmations daily – eventually negative thoughts will be less powerful. Write your thoughts down at…

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homeopathic remedy lotus, bringer of universal peace and calm

Lotus is a homeopathic remedy that is just right for this period of uncertainty and anxiety, writes homeopath Sue Leach, because it is calming, grounding and healing in one. The remedy was made from a lotus plant growing in a pond in sacred ground in an ashram in Kerala, southern India. The seeds of this…

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Exploring stress

Three-quarters of us are suffering from ‘stress’ right now today. But what exactly does this mean? What is stress? What are your stresses, as opposed to other people’s? What’s stress like for you? Our NLP life coach Shelley Edwards asks you to take some time out, grab a pen and paper, then sit down to…

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De-cluttering

Clutter is bad for you… it saps your energy, wastes your time and makes for extra stress in life. Polarity therapist Jane Seaman explains how and offers you help in achieving balance in your life in the form of a four-week challenge to declutter your environment and your head I was in the Army many years…

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Bath treats

We all get over-charged mentally, emotionally and physically over the festive season, says polarity therapist Jane Seaman. ‘A great way you can recharge yourself from all that frenetic energy,’ she advises, ‘is to have a soak in bath salts: 20 minutes is the most beneficial time, allowing you to feel calm, at peace and centred…

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Stress fight and flight

Find it impossible to relax? Feeling overwhelmed? Stress is one of the most disruptive ‘states of being’ to our mental, emotional and physical health. Whereas our ancestors struggled for survival, today we’ve got so many continual complex pressures – time, money, technology and a thousand other tensions – that society has created. And if we’re not…

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Reduce stress

Ever put your tongue in neutral? It’s a simple way to blow a raspberry to stress – literally disengaging your head from your brain chatter. Practise it any time to reduce stress I learned this technique in a training session when I was doing my diploma in coaching and I have shared it with hundreds of people…

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Reduce stress

Chill, enjoy the sunshine. Here are 10 mantras to reduce stress… Keep repeating the ones that work for you to help make life feel a bit less hectic– the more you say ’em, the more you’ll do ’em! Do a few things well Day by day, hour by hour Eat that frog: do the difficult…

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stress

If you feel overloaded with stress, then you are not alone. Research commissioned by the Mental Health Foundation shows that two-thirds of people in this country experience a mental health problem in our lifetimes, and stress is a key factor in this. In the 2018 YouGov poll of 4,169 UK adults 74% of people said…

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Exploring stress

Start 2019 as you mean to go on: stressing less! We’re pooling the team’s expertise at The Hub to bring you the ultimate stress workshop. If life is a juggling act, impossible to keep all those balls in the air, so much to give you anxiety and sleepless nights… If you often feel rushed, overwhelmed…

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