In the middle of the night I woke up perspiring (remember – boys sweat, girls perspire) and I found my heart beating really really fast. Having had two close brushes with heart attacks, I learned very quick that prevention is the best cure. How does a nineteen year old end up having heart attacks? That … Read more
This week I was asked a question: Is there something that can be done to recover an atrophied optic nerve? Can herbs help? My answer can be applied to all atrophy in the body. Have I actually seen this work? Yes I have. There was a woman who had atrophy in various parts of the … Read more
Some months ago I wrote about how the quality of blood cells being made in the body lessens drastically when faced with shock, trauma or a life not satisfying to the spirit. I recommended the simple exercise where you feel your heart beat. Exercises of awareness are so simple, yet their power is amazing and … Read more
When we go through traumatic episodes one too many times, we learn to hold some parts of us tight, sometimes so tight that those parts of us, let’s say an area of the heart muscle for example, that the place becomes hard, taut, and even develops scar tissue or adhesions over the years. These are … Read more
The more robust our heart is, the more robust muscle tissue is the body. One of the first signs of a weakening or atrophying heart muscle is a sort of flabbiness or loss of tone and strength of muscle elsewhere in the body. Just as exercise strengthens muscle, so it strengthens the heart. ‘Hunter’s … Read more
“Yeast will tell you the time,” my Granddad John Waltham said to me. He started me off a journey that hasn’t ended, a journey into understanding the magic of my own body, host to millions of these little living beings with their own spirit, choice and memory, affecting my health, my moods, my smell, my … Read more
