Breathe in and allow your belly to expand with the in-breath. Breathe slowly out again. Repeat four times. Congratulations! You’ve just calmed your nervous system. Controlled breathing, like what you just practised, has been shown to reduce stress, increase alertness and boost your immune system. For centuries yogis have used breath control to promote concentration and improve vitality. Science …
How Stress Can Be Your Friend
How Stress Can Be Your Friend Do you sometimes get stressed? When you are stuck in traffic? Perhaps before an important presentation or exam or on a first date with a person you really like? Your blood pressure rises. Your heart beats faster and pumps more blood to your muscles, which allows you to react faster and with more force. Adrenaline streams through your body and you are on high alert, …
Smart-phones, Posture and Pain
Smart Phones, Posture and Pain There are plenty of reasons to set aside your smart-phone and to focus on what you really are doing. Even though multi-tasking is a trendy word; The fact is that if you do several things at the same time you cannot really concentrate well on any of them. The thousands of people who end up in emergency rooms every day because they walk into something while texting …
Change Your Life In 2 Minutes
Change Your Life In 2 Minutes... “I don’t sing because I am happy. I am happy because I sing”. William James Hall “Sit up straight!” Your Mother The Body Shapes the Mind Would it not be great to be able to measure up to life’s important moments? To be able to make a favourable impression when needed? To make your presence felt and make yourself seen and heard when you wanted …
My burnout changed a lot in my life
“Have a good weekend! I will still do some work before going home. These e-mails cannot wait!”. I said it with a smile, but I could feel how the tension in my back got worse. It was as if someone was tightening a screw there. I had done overtime every day that week. It was close to 18:00 hours Friday night and I still wasn’t done. How often had this happened to me? Too often… I had always …