The Art of Healing

I have been thinking about the land and how the land on which we live affects us. And how little, perhaps, we take note of this. I have always felt that different lands can affect our feelings somehow. Or another way of putting it .. the land on whic

The not-for-profit Chronic Pain Australia is calling on the Australian federal government to make telehealth consultations available on an ongoing basis after December 2021. The consumer advocacy group released their annual National Pain Survey to co

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a collaborative team of Tufts University biologists and psychologists looked at how birds perceive songs and found that like humans, zebra finches can recognise songs by the

Chiropractor B.J. Hardick, D.C. says you can look at sleeping positions from a musculoskeletal perspective and/or from a psychological perspective. Previous research by sleep expert Chris Idzikowski, Ph.D., has looked into the psychological aspects o

Chocolate is a £61billion-per-year global industry that has seen the volatile price of cocoa lead to a surge in traders seeking to buy cheaper beans from deforested regions, with lower quality plants and human rights abuses. This has affected the pri

Now is an age of ‘frenetic short-termism’ writes author and philosopher Roman Krznaric in his book The Good Ancestor. One way to change this is to back political projects that look further ahead. So-called ‘guardians of the future’ have a focus on lo

Whether it’s an exclusive appetite for ‘white’ foods or an all-out refusal on veggies, when you have a fussy eater on your hands, mealtime can be more than a challenge. Further, while picky eating is all part of the norm for developing toddlers, when

Ayurveda, the 5,000-year-old healing tradition of India, says there are five critical factors to consider when using food as medicine. The principles that underpin Ayurvedic eating state that the why, where, when, and how much you eat matter more tha

The suffix ‘pathy’ comes from the Greek word for suffering, pathos. The western medical system is built around pathology, which simply means diagnosing suffering and treating disease. However social connections are critically important to the ways th

So many of us have been raised to see strangers as dangerous and scary. What would happen if we instead saw them as potential sources of comfort and belonging? Nic spent most of her childhood avoiding people. She was raised by a volatile father and

Besides offering a quick mood boost, spending time outdoors (even on cloudy days) exposes us to plenty of natural light, and we know that this light can help keep our circadian clocks tick along smoothly. “Humans evolved in an environment with a clea

In the era we are currently living in, it can almost feel as if we have stepped back in time. We no longer travel overseas or interstate for leisure or business, in fact many of us do not travel to workplaces or anywhere outside a small radius. Jane

Laughter is ancient, primitive and instinctual. We ha ha ha before we da da da. A smile or shared laugh satiates an evolutionary survival role helping us bond and attach to our loved ones. It is a joyful feedback loop and vocal means of communication

An international study of 55 countries has shown a marked increase in the number of overweight women globally, with wealthy, educated and urban women heavier than their counterparts. Mehedi Hasan from The University of Queensland’s Institute for Soc

If you tend to find fault and criticise yourself, know that you have plenty of company among your fellow humans. In fact, our tendency to focus attention on negative issues instead of positive ones is a shared characteristic we carry from our earlies

In the ancient past, it was useful for our ancestors to respond quickly to apex predators and escape with a fight-or-flight action. In modern society, although physical, predatory threats are few and far between, the same evolutionary responses are s

A planetary, nature-centered medicine that offers an overarching philosophy to make emotional-spiritual progress, rather than just material technological progress, is key to restoring security and sanity on Earth - among peoples and ecosystems. Scien

The world has had no greater need to adapt, change and create a new plan since the COVID-19 pandemic. We have all been thrown in the deep end and it has put us to the test. Many of us have gone through a range of emotions, including fear, grief, loss

If you feel overwhelmed, it makes sense. If you don’t know where to go for help, that does too. When the government and community institutions aren’t there to help us to make sense of hard things, we rely on informal networks, the people in our lives

“There is a poem in the Qur’an that says: ‘We have made you a country and a tribe so that you can know each other,’” says Fafur. “You are from different countries and can have different backgrounds, but you can also be Australian and have an Australi

SERVES: 2 Japanese cuisine is one of my top five favourites: it’s dynamic, colourful, intense, fresh and, most importantly, fun. I first discovered okonomiyaki at our local markets in Narrabeen, and I think it is one of the greatest pancakes in culin

The Greek word for grace is charis, and there’s no question of its importance in biblical theology. Charis appears 116 times in the New Testament.  Grace means favour. It means acceptance. It means giving. Grace is free in the sense that something do