We all want our hair to have that healthy, shiny glow. We tend to think it’s hard to achieve the look without introducing a bunch of products and chemicals into our routine. But, did you know you can affect the overall health of your hair just by changing your eating habits? Let’s take a look at eight foods your hair will love – and you’ll love the way your hair…
Organic produce has grown in popularity over the past few years, and can be a great option with many different benefits. However, shopping organically for fruits and vegetables isn’t always within everyone’s budget. Hopefully, there will come a day when organic farming becomes the norm. But until then, those of us looking for healthy, delicious produce can still take comfort in knowing what we buy can be made better by…
We often say that an optimist sees life through rose-tinted glasses, that somebody is “feeling blue” of they’re sad or that they’ve “seen red” if they’re angry. It’s a fact – colours play an important role in our daily lives. Some of them even have a specific effect on our body organs. Many practitioners use chromotherapy equipment to treat a sprain or to balance blood pressure. But did you know…
This time of year lends itself to reflection. I would like you to keep in mind, in 2017 and beyond, that you have in your possession the most effective tool ever invented for keeping motivated to pursue your passions, and for keeping alive the sense of wonder that adds magic to everything we experience. The big question is how to make use of it. Probably you would like the coming…
or Be grateful and it’ll make you patient! A study by an American psychologist looking for a link between patience and the level of gratitude that people feel towards others has prompted me to do some serious thinking. Here are the main points of the study, and its astonishing conclusion. David DeSteno, a researcher at Northeastern University, asked 105 volunteers to carry out a task using a computer – which…
“The world belongs to early risers”. It’s not by any means a new saying, but it has been developed by Hal Elrod in his book “The Miracle Morning”. According to this American personal development coach, anybody who wants to revolutionise their life and realise their dreams needs to leap out of bed early! Or even very early, because the author urges us to get up at 5.30am. This strategy, which…
The very word ‘mindfulness’ has taken an impressive upward shift in popularity in recent years, even though there is nothing particularly ‘new’ about the concept of being mindful. In today’s somewhat chaotic society, it comes as no surprise that people are turning to the idea of mindfulness as a way to relax, escape, and truly find a deeper meaning within themselves. Once reserved as a sort of ‘yoga slang’ for…
Chances are, we all experience bloating from time to time. Even the fittest people in the world aren’t immune to feeling as though their stomach is stretched. The sensation is not weight gain though. Bloating is actually a type of swelling in our stomachs, caused mostly by gas. While it’s not exactly fun to think about, the fact is, we all have to deal with it once in a while,…
Success thanks to emotional intelligence Looked at as the essential factor for success, IQ or “intelligence quotient” is now getting some competition from emotional quotient (EQ) or emotional intelligence (EI). Could emotional intelligence now be a better predictor of success than IQ? At any rate, that’s what Dr Daniel Goleman proposes in his book “Emotional Intelligence”. He believes that the ability to manage our emotions is synonymous with success and…
Eating well in Venice – classic dishes for figure-conscious visitors When we think of Italian food, we immediately imagine that it’ll be difficult to eat healthily on a trip to Italy. There’s a false but widespread idea that pasta is fattening. In reality, it’s what goes with pasta that’s really fattening. We’re not talking here about the vegetables, but about the butter, the cheese, the cream and so on. Another…