Tag: Wellbeing

Life Lately: Spring in Scotland

Spring has sprung here in Edinburgh. My garden is green with new life and the cold rain is interspersed with boughts of glorious warm sun. The days have become longer, the sun rising just before 6 a.m. and setting at almost 9 p.m. Everyone tells me the days will keep growing longer as summer sets

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Magnesium Baths for Anxiety & Wellbeing

Magnesium baths and/or epsom salt baths have been all the rage of late and I wanted to see what all the hype was about. So, I decided to experiment with magnesium chloride flake foot-baths for one week. I really wasn’t expecting much. But I have terrible anxiety and I’ll pretty much try anything. One week

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Mindfulness: What It Is & How to Practice It

This post was originally published at MotivateHealth.com. By definition, mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and surrounding environment. Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them — without believing, for instance, that there’s a right or wrong way to think or

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What You Eat Directly Affects Your Mood and How Your Brain Functions

You’ve heard it before: it’s important to “eat clean” when it comes to maintaining a well-rounded lifestyle. But what does that really mean? Eating clean for one person might mean a home-cooked meal of tofu and frozen vegetables, while for another it may be an organic raw, grain-free vegan meal. A study conducted by Harvard Medical School,

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Is Being Vegan the New Rebel?

Break out your vegan leather jacket and ditch the cigarettes.  We live in an age where “nothing matters” and everyone is blasé about pretty much everything. If somebody gets excited about something, it lasts about 20 minutes before they’re on to the next ‘big thing’ in this era of instant gratification. But the thing is,

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