I tend to focus quite a lot on the effect of the mind on the body as I have experienced many cases where a person’s illness has been triggered by an unexpressed emotion from an emotionally traumatic experience. But can things work the other way round? Can a physical problem ever be the cause
I recently finished reading another book on meditation, called ‘Silence Your Mind’, by Dr Ramesh Manocha. This book challenged my views on meditation, but Ramesh is clearly a lovely man and he has done his research, so he won me round. Ramesh is a student of Sahaja yoga and his thesis in the book
Fasting has been a popular internet topic over the past few years. Fasting has a long history in many spiritual traditions, a way of purifying the body as a way of purifying the mind and soul. In more recent times, fasting has been studied as a way of losing weight and as a contributor
The word placebo is a Latin word meaning, ‘I shall please’. The dictionary meaning of placebo, as we use the term nowadays is ‘an inert substance or procedure which nevertheless has a positive effect’, whereas once it would have been something like, ‘an inert substance which is given to please the patient but which
