In 1968 Herbert Benson was doing blood pressure experiments with monkeys at Harvard. 1968 was also the year that the Beatles visited a meditation guru called the Maharishi Yogi in India. Eastern spirituality suddenly became very trendy, and some of […]
The fight or flight response was incredibly well designed to help our ancestors survive in the wild. Today the very same response is being activated by our stressful lifestyles and killing us. To see how, imagine you are a caveman […]
You have an amazing body. This is true whether or not you think you have the kind of body they take pictures of to put on magazine covers. In any case the pictures on magazine covers aren’t real – they […]
Or is it? We often hear that some things are ‘just in the mind’. The body, on the other hand, is separate – a physical thing. From this point of view it sounds downright wacky to think that beliefs can […]
I’ve been researching how the body can heal itself since my international rowing career was almost destroyed by a series of debilitating allergic reactions. The drugs doctors prescribed didn’t work so as a last resort I accepted my mother’s suggestion […]