Vol 4 Issue 69

The Art of Healing

Your guide to health and healing alternatives

The Art of Healing4 min readSelf-Improvement
Editor’s Note
Bringing this magazine together this time has been particularly interesting. All the magazines are brought together very organically, over time, so you never really know what will be the final outcome until you have everything in. This magazine has a
The Art of Healing3 min readMotivational
Research Reveals Australia is One Big NIGGLE NATION
Blackmores is calling on all Australians to start listening to their bodies as they’re working harder than we know, with the latest consumer research revealing Australia is a niggle nation. Currently, 15 million Australians (79%) are experiencing som
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Medicine Hat Closes In on Functional Zero CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS
The Medicine Hat in Alberta is helping us understand what it takes to reach, achieve and sustain functional zero chronic homelessness. Working closely with The 20,000 Homes Campaign, they are zeroing in on ending chronic homelessness in their communi
The Art of Healing2 min readEnvironmental Science
CLIMATE Changes Faster Than Animals Adapt
Climate change can threaten species, and extinctions can impact ecosystem health. It is therefore of vital importance to assess to which degree animals can respond to changing environmental conditions, for example, by shifting the timing of breeding,
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Long Road Ahead in Minimising Opioid-Related Harm
Australia’s leading causes of death in 2018 according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals that opioids accounted for just over three deaths per day. The majority of these opioid-induced fatalities were unintentional overdoses in middle age
The Art of Healing2 min readMedical
ART Provides a Window of Relief for Stressed Workers
Displaying art in workplaces can reduce stress levels and mental fatigue by up to 40 per cent, a South Australian study has shown. The three-year study by University of South Australia researcher Bridgette Minuzzo involved 91 people across 18 work si
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DIETARY CHOLINE Associated with Reduced Risk of Dementia
A study by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland is the first to observe that the dietary intake of phosphatidylcholine is associated with a reduced risk of dementia. Phosphatidylcholine was also linked to enhanced cognitive performance. T
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LOWER BACK PAIN? Self-Administered Acupressure Could Help
A recent study finds that acupressure, a traditional Chinese medicine technique, can improve chronic pain symptoms in the lower back. "Acupressure is similar to acupuncture, but instead of needles, pressure is applied with a finger, thumb or device t
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SEA SNAIL Compound Reduces Cancer Risk
The remarkable ability of a small Australian sea snail to produce a colourful purple compound to protect its eggs is proving even more remarkable for its potential in a new anti-cancer pharmaceutical. Researchers at Flinders University, Southern Cro
The Art of Healing7 min readPsychology
How to Beat Stereotypes by Seeing People as Individuals
In 1983, a white man walked into an all-white music venue in Frederick, Maryland, and he noticed that a black man was playing in an otherwise all-white country band. He approached the musician and told him, “I really like y’all’s music. This is the f
The Art of Healing5 min readSelf-Improvement
Is YOGA Good For Any Body?
Ann Marie Johnston is the founding director of the global yoga platform YogaMate, and the founder of Global Yoga Therapy Day (21 June). For more than half her life Ann Marie suffered from chronic depression. She felt she had no light and little inspi
The Art of Healing1 min readPsychology
About Yoga Therapy
Yoga Therapists, unlike Yoga Teachers, are specially trained to work with clients suffering from various health concerns. They have over 1,000 hours training (compared to 200 hrs for the average yoga teacher); many have other healthcare qualification
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Healing Profile
Married at 22 and graduating with a Masters in Architecture while nursing her daughter and pregnant with her son, Jaya Kader’s life became a constant juggle between her two roles as homemaker and mother on one side, and architect on the other. She th
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The 3 Rd Wave Recreational Drug Epidemic
Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative journalist who writes about culture, drugs, and poverty. Westhoff’s work has appeared in the Library of Congress, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Forbes, Playboy, Vice, Rolling Stone, Oxford American, Pitchf
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Psychedelics
• Almost half (45%) of Australians will experience a serious mental health illness in their lifetime • One in five Australians (20%) aged 16-85 experience a mental illness in any year • Of the 20% of Australians with a mental illness in any one year,
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Mdma
In 1986 Rick Doblin, a trainee therapist with a PhD from the Harvard Kennedy school, founded the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) to overturn the decision by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in the United States to crimin
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Psilocybin
In 2016, the Beckley/Imperial Research Programme released a study that revealed the staggering potential of psilocybin to alleviate treatment-resistant depression, with 67 percent of participants being depression-free after one week, and 42 percent r
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Functional Pathology in Australia
Mary Cavaggion and Peter Gotis are the directors of Nutripath Integrative Pathology Services, who have a combined 50+ years working in pathology testing. Through their lengthy careers beginning in traditional pathology and following through to specia
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The Hardest Thing
The hardest thing I had to learn was how to deal with the impotent rage that stalked my every thought when juggling work, family and the demands of caring for a very sick child. My daughter’s illness arrived by stealth. Maybe it began when she was te
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Recipes
SERVES: 4 PREP: 15 mins COOKING: 10 mins I don’t really understand the attraction of fake meat that bleeds. Who is it going to attract? For me, part of the attraction of plant-based dishes is precisely that they don’t bleed. It’s probably something
The Art of Healing1 min readPsychology
The Rat Park Theory On Addiction
Rat Park was a series of studies into drug addiction conducted in the late 1970s and published 1978-81 by Canadian psychologist Bruce K. Alexander. Alexander's hypothesis was that drugs do not cause addiction, and that the apparent addiction to opiat
The Art of Healing3 min readPsychology
Reviews
Anxiety is natural. Calm is learned. If you didn’t learn yesterday, you can learn today. It’s not easy of course. Once your natural alarm system is triggered, it’s hard to find the off switch. Indeed, you don’t have an off switch until you build one.

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