Living Calm

Posted by Nettie in Popular, Self Help, Stress Management

Hullo Healthy Self Subscribers

Long time! I hope this well note finds you and yours well.

Firstly, I need to apologise for disappearing from the blog. Let me explain. I’ve been working intensively creating the program “Living Calm” which is, at its simplest, a ‘stress management’ program, and it is SO much more than that. Living calm takes a totally different approach to stress and living calm than any other program I’ve seen – and I’ve seen a few.

You know I NEVER intended to write Living Calm. What happened was, I was working on a whole other program when I was asked to give a talk at an expo. The talk was on stress and natural medicine. I decided to go back to the literature to check for any changes in stress theory since I learned about it some 25 years ago. Well, that decision turned my life upside down – it literally changed EVERYTHING. Long story short, not only did I see my own health story described in a theory I didn’t know existed I also LEARNED that what I’d been ‘taught’ about stress is just one part of a MUCH larger picture, a picture that has huge ramifications for us all. On the basis of this ‘new’ knowledge I concluded that to really make a difference in our lives i.e. to live better/calmer, we need to understand stress differently to how we currently do. I was shocked to learn that no one is really talking about stress the way the Doctor who discovered it 80+ years ago did, which I believe, is a huge disservice to us all. I decided I had to step up. And so 12+ months later here I am with a lot of information (about an issue I never intended to research) and a new program (I never intended to write)…huh?…you think you’re confused…

Focus On What You Want

Posted by Nettie in Health, Self Help

 This post is written specifically for anyone not living the life they have dreamed of. If you are living the perfect life then surf on and see you next week. If not, then maybe we can help. Let us share with you something we are working with – again… the principle of the Law of Attraction or focusing on what you want. OK – busted… I have been re-watching The Secret and it’s something I should have done ages ago. You know when you kinda half remember something and then when you are reminded of it you are like – ‘oh yeah – why did we ever stop doing that? Well that was how I was with the Law of Attraction/ The Secret.

I was half applying the principles of The Secret for years and then wondering why it seemed to work sporadically. Then as I was watching it, again, I remembered some things; snippets from my past which were reminders that I had always at one level or another, believed and lived by the ideas of the secret. For example, I remember when I was as young as about seven I was playing ping pong with my older brother and one of his friends – they were about 19 yrs old at the time. Anyway my brothers friend broke my bat. Our family did not have much (any) money. The ping pong set was a gift and so very precious; I was heartbroken.  The boy promised to replace it.  He didn’t have money either. After they left, my Mother, in an attempt to save me from being disappointed said “don’t be upset – he will not replace the bat” which on the face of the situation seemed pretty reasonable. 

I knew better – I had (as Lisa Nichols puts it in the film) unwavering faith – I knew, like I knew, like I knew he would replace it.  Anyway he visited three or four times after and each time he visited I would be quietly expectant and he’d said “I’ll bring it next time“. After each visit my Mother would repeat her ‘comforting mantra’ and I would repeat mine. It became a piece of theater. By the time the boy left after his fourth visit Mum got cranky with me because I “did not learn”. True, at this you could understand why she thought I was bring “silly” and I held my belief.  Anyway on the fifth visit he brought the bat – just as I knew he would. My mother was surprised to say the least – though I don’t remember her saying anything afterwards. I didn’t care – I just knew… and sometimes things just take a little longer than you think they should

Raw Food – Part 2

Posted by Nettie in Health, Raw Food

And the adventure continues – at least for a while. Sufficed to say, the experiences I described with my initial foray into raw food continued and so did my satisfaction with the regime. I was raw for two weeks plus and committed to keeping it up because I love how I feel physically. Gas and a whole lot of other things we don’t discuss in polite company reduced or went away completely! What’s more, I have had some (hormonal?) spots and discolouration flare up around my chin. Raw food has completely alleviated that to the point a friend commented on the change.

Eating Raw – Raw Food

Posted by Nettie in Health, Natural Medicine, Raw Food, Reviews, Self Help, Stress Management

I have to tell you about my latest adventure. As you know I am, and  always have been, very interested in all aspects of health. Perhaps it was growing up with an invalid and oodles of chronic illnesses that did it? I have always been interested in health, healing, nutrition and people taking control of their own lives. And when we combine health and self determination my ears really prick up!

My version of health and self determination is my practice. I am a homoeopath who incorporates EFT and NLP as appropriate. I encourage clients to understand what is ‘going on for them’ because in my world view, illness is always a symptom of something else. Homeopathy is brilliant for ‘getting underneath’ and treating the whole person. So for me homeopathy is a big part of healthy self determination.