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Life Lessons From My Dog – The Final Chapter
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs many of you will know, Thistle, our faithful hound has been a huge influence in our lives, contributing to his own series on this blog. You can read his previous lessons here, here and here. After 14 years of stolen bed space, endless tumbleweeds of dog hair, and the best running partner I have…
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Nasal Breathing and Mouth Taping – The deadly art of sleepy Ninjas
Reading Time: 7 minutesThat’s right. After reading and implementing what follows, you will be ready to order a new Black Belt for your dressing gown. Today’s golden nuggets of health related wisdom will soon become as plain as the nose on your face. First things first… Shut Your Mouth! No really, shut your mouth. If you’re not laughing,…
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Box Breathing – The Cheat Code to Stress Management
Reading Time: 5 minutesStress Management is one of our 5 Circles of Health, our approach to forging happy, healthy, hard to kill humans. We know how important a healthy mind is in creating a healthy body, and vice versa. Stress management has a multitude of faces. We can manage our physical stress by applying the correct stimuli and…
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Clothes To Move In
Reading Time: 5 minutesHow to set your body free each and every day to make movement even more of an option. I am very particular about the clothes I wear. Anybody who knows me is laughing right now. I’m not talking stylistically, although I am immensely stylish, the world just hasn’t caught up with my sense of vogue…
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The Eight-fold Year – Reconnecting with Nature
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs the sun rose this morning, marking the traditional date allocated to the old Celtic festival of Bealtaine, Kelley and I (and the hound, of course) were already out in the wild to watch the glowing orb ascend to the heavens, thereby marking the start of the light half of the year. As is typical…
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Wonderful Wild Garlic Pesto Recipe
Reading Time: 5 minutesWild Garlic, or Bear Garlic and Ramsoms as it is also known, is one of springtime’s superstars. You generally can smell it before you see it. That wonderful, pungent aroma seeping through deciduous woodlands, promises a sensory bombardment of enticing odours and spicy taste sensations. Sending up new shoots from early March and flowering from…
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Myths & Heroes – Unlocking Your Super Powers
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn every tradition, in every culture, in every corner of the world, we find legends of heroes; the doers of great and impossible deeds. These archetypal characters share many common traits. Superhuman strength. Invulnerability. A skill level beyond common folk. Great wisdom. Powers that no mere mortal could hope to wield. Scrawled across the walls…
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Powerful Life Lessons from Mr Miyagi
Reading Time: 6 minutesMy grandfather was a sage in his own, unassuming right. His biggest teachings for me were ones of patience, dedication, play, and unconditional love. He was a quiet giant who emanated so much love in the way only grandads can. To me he was the epitome of Stoicism. I really cannot remember a time when…
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Focus on the Journey – Resolutions
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s resolution time. That point at which we decide that an aspect of our life will change for betterment in the coming twelve months. An honourable task, but why do we fail so often to see these things through, only to repeat the process again the following year? Look at the word. RE-SOLUTION. PREFIX re- …
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