A member of our Stress Management Institute® Advisory Board, Associate Professor Sinan Ali, sent me his comments below about our 28 February blog, Does Music Reduce Stress. Professor Ali is a leading world expert in the field of cortisol,...
Men were the key participants who once populated the medieval knitting guilds of Europe, and men are once again picking up the needles. Last Sunday morning in Brisbane the Stress Management Institute® hosted their graduation for Certificate IV in...
A landmark Editorial on 1 September 2015 in the British Medical Journal, titled, ‘Learning from Soft Power… A need for soft healing in the 21st century’, a new understanding of healing focus was expressed. The authors were from the...
I trust you had a special Valentine’s Day that was filled with love and joy and you have some fond memories to treasure. At 5pm on Tuesday I had an appointment at the Optometrist in a large local Shopping...
Stress – people often ask, what works to de-stress and what doesn’t? We can give people a toolkit to help them deal with stress, including positive imaging, meditations, breathing exercises, specific tools and strategies to meet their personal needs,laughter...
For many years’ I slept for four hours a night because my view of sleep was that it was a wasteful activity. Sleeping toolong was something that robbed me of time and made my days shorter. I had so...
Recently I read an excellent e-book by neuroscientist Mark Waldman PhD on 10 Mind Blowing Discoveries About the Human Brain. Waldman emphasises… “our thoughts, indeed, even a single word – have the power to change the structure and functioning...
As a way of de-stressing, many people feel an intrinsic call to spend time in nature, and this makes good sense. Our brain and body are in the main hard-wired to connect with the laws of nature. The changing...