Stress: A curse or a blessing?
We hear it all the time: People complaining that they are stressed out, attributing all sorts of health problems to stress. It’s a myth. Stress is not the problem – lack of rejuvenation is. Stress hormones flooding our system are crucial to our survival instincts....
Creating health to prevent disease
We are getting older but many of us are getting older with loss in quality of life as our health starts deteriorating because of poor lifestyle management - the topic of my Blog last week. We have to go back a little in history to understand why most of us have fallen...
How old can we really get?
Life expectancy in most countries has increased dramatically over the past century. But the statistics reveal little about the quality of life at an old age. Yet, we could live much longer and happier lives by adopting positive lifestyle habits. Extreme longevity with...
Fatigue and the food you eat
A topic that is largely underrated is that our western diet of mainly processed foods is probably responsible for a large number of the modern diseases like diabetes, cancer, alzheimer and dementia. There is a direct link between the lack of vital nutrients such as...
Major health benefits of ginger, turmeric
I've just had a bad bout of flu with the virus affecting a lot of people in my immediate vicinity. The immediate impulse was to take the standard medication but I remembered how my grandmother used to heal us with completetly natural substances that are being...
2017: Is the world a better place?
On New Year's Eve I passed through the beautiful city of Dresden along the Elbe river in Germany. I remember well when I first visited the city during the communist East German era in the early 1980s . It was a drab, grey, colourless place with the ruins of the famous...
Gratitude – the antidote to fear
Its the time of year when Thanksgiving is celebrated. In the U.S. Thanksgiving is a national holiday going back to the first English settlers in the new world in 1621 who would not have survived without the help of the native Americans. In the mainly agricultural...
The choices we make
Politics is fuelling a culture of entitlement.
Kick-starting from the down cycle
By Reino Gevers What makes some people happier, more successful and healthier than others? Although research pinpoints some heriditary factors the real clue that makes those rare individuals stand out from the rest of the crowd, is how they deal with the natural...
Happiness is …
By Reino Gevers The "How-To" happiness culture seems to be flourishing all over the glossy magazines and the bestseller lists, suggesting countless ways of living a happy life. This comes amid an almost epidemic rise in the number of people suffering from depression....
The battlelines are drawn. Which side are you falling on?
By Reino Gevers As humanity moves on into a next dimension of raised consciousness the shadow side of lower consciousness inevitably rears its ugly head. It can be particularly observed in the current highly toxic polarised political climate in many countries. But...
Where is your attention?
by Reino Gevers When you practise the martial art of "taiji push hands" you instantly become aware when your mind is wandering elsewhere. As soon as your attention slips your opponent has easy play in finding the gap and pushing you over. Its all about: Where your...
Lessons learned on the Camino
Why walk several hundred kilometres on a path in Spain with a back pack? For an outsider it seems difficult to understand why thousands of people from all walks of life are resdiscovering this ancient pilgrimage route as a personal journey of self-discovery. After...
Winding Down
I met an interesting character walking the Camino between Muxia and Lires on the way to Fisterra. The guy is offering refreshments to Peregrinos for a small donation in a makeshift tent. He coined the term 'Turbo-Grinos' - those guys in such a hurry to...
Heart Mind – Head Mind
There is a difference between religion and spirituality. While religion is based on a set belief system or theology, spirituality is a much broader concept leaving room for many different perspectives. I would see it as the difference between 'head mind' and 'heart...
