Your life will be measurably enriched when you become more deeply engaged with people and your living environment. Want to take action? Try this: Becoming aware of these pre-judgements may be difficult, but a helpful way to hunt them down is to attune yourself to...
Our living environment provides all our life requirements: care for it. Mother nature’s gift to us is the air we breathe and the water we drink. Love her back by caring for these gifts. These life-giving treasures can’t be produced in a factory. The chemicals we...
More successful people are now engaging in environmental issues for future wellbeing. The way we care for our environment has a direct impact on our wellbeing. The New Zealand All Black rugby team’s motto is: Never be too big to do the small things that need to be...
BLOG Do your possessions create an enriching environment? Time to decluttering? Decluttering is much more than throwing away the ‘old stuff’ rather it is a mindful act of creation. This blog will take you through the process of getting into a mindful and creative...
TECHNOLOGY Meaningful friendships don’t just happen. They need care and attention. It’s not just about finding the right friend, rather it is about building and caring for the right friendship. This site may appear to be for women, but in reality it is not; these...
Life keeps throwing us challenges. As we saw with Covid-19, in this globally connected world we are all touched by whatever is happening, no matter how ‘far away’. Resilience is a key quality of those who are best able to respond.
Let’s be clear – there is no quick fix to immediately ‘boost’ your immunity – no ‘wonder supplement’ or ‘power food’ will suddenly strengthen your immune system. However, living a healthy lifestyle does go a long way to keep your immune system strong. This has been found in a recent study showing that exercise may strengthen the antibody response to vaccination – both the COVID-19 vaccines and the annual flu vaccines.
Here in South Africa, there seems to be two active responses on social media to the shock of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One is a sense of outrage and sadness at the disruption and tragic loss of life. The other seems to be an almost flippant expression of gratitude for being far away ‘down south’ from the conflict zone.
What can those two illustrious South Africans, the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and ex-President Nelson Mandela teach us about living with cancer? In 1997 a concerned world heard that the man fondly known as ‘the Arch’, aged 65, had surgery for prostate cancer. A few years later in 2001, we were again shocked to hear that Madiba, aged 83, had also been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
One thing we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic experience is that we are not happy when we are separated from others – loved ones, colleagues and even people we do not know. We like to go to restaurants, coffee shops and just hang around people. Not only do we like it, but the pandemic has also highlighted how we need connection for our mental and emotional wellbeing. Sometimes it seems that it is only when things are taken away, that we learn to appreciate their value and importance.