About fifteen years ago I read a book by Alice Miller, For Your Own
Good: Hidden cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence, a book
that left a lasting impression on me. Miller was a psychoanalyst who,
after twenty years of practicing psychoanalysis came to the realization
that she could do more good by writing about the parent-child
relationship for the general public.

“Stand up straight!” “Pull your shoulders back!” As children, we were
told to have good posture. Yet we were seldom taught effective ways to
accomplish this. Indeed, we were often not even told just what “good
posture” is.

The consequences of this information gap can be seen all around us:
stiff necks, shoulders hunched forward or pulled tightly back,
restricted breathing, and tightness in the thighs, legs and ankles.
Backaches, headaches, and other painful symptoms are often the
unfortunate result.

Acupressure has been used to reduce post-operative nausea and vomiting in children.

Acupressure also reduces nausea in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.

Acupressure can be done anywhere without special equipment.

Why Hypnotists Should Know the History of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
Calvin D. Banyan, MA, CI, BCH
The other day I was reading an email to a hypnosis interest group on one of the Web portals. In it a student of a particular hypnosis teacher went on and on about how his teacher taught several well-known hypnosis instructors. Then he went on to say how those guys were just re-packaging his teacher's materials.

In the 1960's a British Reflexologist discovered a map of our time in the womb on the side of the foot.This insight led to the creation of the Metamorphic Technique, a method of healing and personal
development using a gentle touch on the feet, head and hands

There are nearly 18 million people in the world with dementia. As the “baby boom” of the 1940’s moves inexorably into a peak in pensioners in the immediate years ahead, this figure is set to rise dramatically and with it, the implications for society of the cost of care and its provision

This article is a response to a letter in the NCHP&HR Journal from Edward John McClurg. The parenthetic remarks in the article have specific relevance to Mr. McClurg, a tutor in Quality Management Systems, though others may find them illuminating.

I AM NOT GOING to describe a technique for dealing with smokers.....

The origins of zen shiatsu is in Oriental medicine, but it was adapted to the Japanese environment.
All types of shiatsu stimulate blood circulation directly, like western style massage such as Swedish. In doing so, both of these systems help release poorly flowing blood in the skin and muscles, and hence help ease tension and.........

It is interesting how what is considered "alternative therapy" in one country is virtually mainstream in another. Here in Japan health treatments such as acupuncture, bone setting or Chinese herbal medicines are widely accepted as a treatment choice yet something like Reiki, born in Japan and popular in the West, has been greeted.....

I am sure that we have all read and learned something about the theory and techniques of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). But it is possible that some of us have not had the opportunity to study it in enough detail to determine the validity of the ideas which are involved in it.
A few years ago Dr. Heap, Principal Clinical Psychologist for Sheffield Health Authority and lecturer at Sheffield University, did a very careful and thorough study of .......

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a healing tool based on the theory that our emotions and physical symptoms are linked to the underlying energy system of the body. That energy system is the acupuncture meridian system known to the Chinese for thousands of years........

Acupressure was originated in China thousands of years ago, and evidence has been found that acupressure was practiced in the stone age!
Acupressure has been used to reduce post-operative nausea and.......

Although plants and herbs have been used for millennia as medicines for physical ailments, it is well known that they also have properties which can heal emotional and mental disturbances and dis-ease. And plants are not the only vital energies that can be utilised; minerals and crystals also ..........

People can be afraid of a wide range of things and what can be totally acceptable to one person can be quite panic provoking to another.
Some of the fears I see most often in my practice are:..........

Magnetic therapy has been used in many parts of the world for many years to help relieve pain and accelerate the natural healing process of the body. For more than 5000 years the healing power of Lodestone (magnet) has been known and used for healing, which has been mentioned in the earliest of writings. It is a naturally occurring rock used for...........

It was about three years ago, whilst I was a full time General Practitioner, a job that I had been doing both at home and abroad for twenty eight years, that I came across Aloe Vera.
I had vaguely heard of it as an addition to various cosmetic products, but I was completely ignorant of its origin and unconcerned about its actions. I was certainly unaware of its fabled medicinal properties and as a strictly conventional physician I had no interest in any form of complementary or alternative medicine. In fact.......

The term homeopathy was coined by the Saxon physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843) and first published in 1796. Homeopathy is a system of medicine that is based on the Law of Similars. The truth of this law has been verified experimentally and clinically for the last 200 years.
Homeopathy is derived from the Greek words hómoios (similar). It is a system of..............

Color is the most commonly used modality in our daily life. The question arises whether people understand what the influence of color on the body is. The answer to this question mostly is that the person does not understand or even ............

Hydrotherapy, as its name suggests, is a therapy that takes place in an environment where patients are immersed in warm water. This allows them to exercise painlessly, aiding recovery from a wide variety of conditions. Many large hospitals use this form of ..........

Many people are interested in herbs these days, and there's a lot to learn about them. Books, magazine articles, blogs, health newsletters all routinely carry informative articles about herbs. They add flavor to food and...........

For Hayfever sufferers Spring heralds the onset of sneezing, itchy eyes and a runny nose. Allergic reactions to pollen are the identified cause of these symptoms, and you can take drugs to help. However......

Since ancient times our ancestor’s harvested the many herbs and spices that grew wild around them, mixed potions, and treated ailments..........