Tapping therapy for mind and body: Can something this simple really work?
All over the world, there are people getting into tapping therapy. They say the East-West approach helps them with mind and body health, stress, and trauma. More and more scientists and health care professionals agree. But, tapping therapy is not yet mainstream. And that can have something to do with the fact that it’s so easy to use. After all, “something that simple can’t really work” is a perspective that feels true for many of us.
Help, I’m 50 and it’s only going downhill from here! To what extent does our decline happen because we expect it?
As we reach “middle age,” we don’t just dread the decline of our bodies and minds—we expect it. We wait for our knees to ache and our memories to fail us. While some of these things happen because we’re getting older, do some also happen because we expect them? And, more importantly, can we age better if we expect better? In other words, can positive ageing help us age more healthily?
Is willpower really helping us? Perspectives are changing.
If only we had more willpower and self control to see things through. We would eat the right foods, exercise regularly, say no to alcohol, smoking and – god forbid – to drugs. Procrastination would never happen, and we would save money rather than spending it. We would be achieving all sorts of virtuous goals in life. We would be admirable. Right? Time to review an old perspective?
Surrendering: Dr. Kim D’Eramo on mind body healing, instead of fighting ill health
When it comes to poor health, we have to ‘fight it’. Sometimes this can help. But a growing number of health experts are taking a different approach. Here talks Dr. Kim D’Eramo with us about our own innate mind body healing. That there is power in surrender. And that by doing this, we can help our body’s own healing ability instead of hindering it.