Hi Everybody,

Welcome to the first ever Earthmajik newsletter; with spring this year comes the official opening of the Earthmajik Natural Healing Centre. It is the culmination of many years of hard work and long time dream come true!

At the beginning of each month, I will be sending out a short newsletter with articles of interest related to natural healing and the general wellbeing of body, mind and spirit; short articles with the aim of increasing the awareness of holistic healing and alternative therapies along with any interesting and inspirational reading I happen to stumble across.

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Love and light

Cesca

Get a Life...

Anna Quindlen is the bestselling author of four novels and four non-fiction books. Her New York Times column, "Public and Private" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 and her column now appears every other week in Newsweek.

Below is a speech Quindlen wrote, but never delivered to the 1999 graduates of Villanova University. Quindlen published the speech in 2000 in her book A Short Guide to Happy Life.

…Don't ever forget what a friend once wrote Senator Paul Tsongas when the senator decided not to run for re-election because he'd been diagnosed with cancer: "No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time in the office." Don't ever forget the words my father sent me on a postcard last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat." Or what John Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway of the Dakota: "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." … read full speech here

Understanding Reiki

Reiki is an ancient form of natural healing. It works by stimulating the mechanisms that are in charge of your body’s maintenance. It is a non-religious, non-denominational and non-intrusive healing method.

The word “Reiki” can be translated as Universal Life Energy. It is this energy that sustains humans, animals and plant life.

Your body already knows how to heal itself – if you cut your finger, you don’t have to do anything for it to heal. Your body automatically does what is necessary to heal the cut. Platelets rush to the site of the cut to staunch the bleeding, white corpuscles flood the area to combat infection and the skin regenerates over the wound. Soon there is nothing to show that you had ever injured yourself – and all of this with no conscious effort on your part.

What Reiki does is enhance this inherent ability to self-heal... Read full article here

The Chemical Cocktail called Love

Within minutes of meeting someone we know if we are attracted to them, our heart beats faster, our pupils dilate and if we’ve got it real bad, we even get that dizzy sick feeling. But one thing is for sure, we generally make our minds up pretty quickly about whether or not we like someone.

The excitement and passion of a new relationship is like nothing else on Earth – it puts you on a seemingly permanent high, and you long to feel that way forever. But once you have ridden the wave for a while you will find yourself sailing into a calmer sea, one where you feel you will never reach those dizzying, thrilling heights again... Read full article here

Healing with Herbs

In the written record, the study of herbs dates back over 5,000 years to the Sumerians, who described well-established medicinal uses for such plants as laurel, caraway, and thyme. The first known Chinese herb book (or herbal), dating from about 2700 B.C., lists 365 medicinal plants and their uses - including ma-Huang, the shrub that introduced the drug ephedrine to modern medicine. The Egyptians of 1000 B.C. are known to have used garlic, opium, castor oil, coriander, mint, indigo, and other herbs for medicine and the old testament also mentions herb use and cultivation, including mandrake, vetch, caraway, wheat, barley, and rye.

Like their predecessors, the ancient Greeks and Romans made medicinal use of plants. Greek and Roman medicinal practices, as preserved in the writings of Hippocrates and - especially - Galen, provided the patterns for later western medicine. Hippocrates advocated the use of a few simple herbal drugs - along with fresh air, rest, and proper diet.

While some people may dismiss herbal remedies as quackery, the use of botanicals is well rooted in medical practice. Ancient doctors methodically collected information about herbs and developed well-defined pharmacopoeias to treat a variety of ailments. More than a quarter of all drugs used today contain active ingredients derived from those same ancient plants.

Drinking infusions is one of the simplest and most ancient ways of using herbal remedies… read full article here