Lissa Rankin's latest TEDTalk covers ground familiar to anyone who saw her previous talk. This time, she's talking to health care providers about the urgent need to take an holistic approach and to revolutionise the health care system. She's more specific about what stress is, and about the need to reject stress as "normal":

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Is Coconut Oil Bad For You?

July 30, 2013
Some who profit from coconut oil claim it has miraculous powers, curing everything from cancer to jock itch. The boldest claim may be that it is a potential cure for Alzheimer’s, based on a series of anecdotes and one study I profile in my 3-min video Does Coconut Oil Cure Alzheimer’s? Long story short, as ( Read more... )

AICR, the China Study, and Forks Over Knives

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Everyone:

Go and borrow or buy Lissa Rankin's Mind Over Medicine, and get as well as it's possible for you to be.

Practice radical kindness towards yourself, because you genuinely are worth it, whoever you may be.

And then tell everyone else the same.

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I woke up this morning with a banging headache, and haven't settled in to my regime of meditation and journalling because I feel so out of sorts.

And then I begin to worry:

• What if I don't get all the gardening stuff done by the end of the week?
• What if I don't go to the meeting I need to attend tomorrow evening because I'm recovering from feeling ( Read more... )

This is a re-post because I reckon it bears repeating.

It gives me immense pleasure and hope to consider that there is good scientific evidence to support the idea that I can recover from multiple chronic conditions after 28+ years.

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Rankin also has a 4-part discussion of how the mind heals the body and why blaming anyone for their illness doesn ( Read more... )

I've struggled with my resistance to Self-care over the years. While I grokked that my system was trying to protect me from going near anything that upset me, and so derailed a huge variety of methods of self-enquiry and healing, I've recently begun taking Self-care Very Seriously Indeed, and this has led to a discovery:

I'm addicted to not ( Read more... )

The old computer finally died. Sputter, crash, go bye-bye.

All hail the new computer!

And in my inbox, the url for my lovely friend jaime_sama's website. She teaches yoga in WA (USA) in accordance with her frankly brilliant yoga manifesto, and her blog is genius. Even if you're not into yoga, seriously, chaps, do read it. It is wise and illuminating and I'm ( Read more... )

The blurb from TED on this video runs thus:

"Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "power posing" -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident -- can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact ( Read more... )

You wouldn't know it from most films or tv series, or even books, but heroes really do come in a wondrous breadth of shapes and sizes and colours and life paths. Here's someone I now consider a hero: Lana Wachowski, one of the Wachowski Siblings, directors of the Matrix series, on coming out and being out as someone whose "gender isn't as common as ( Read more... )