I have spent the last week looking at communication; what and how we communicate. I have spent time with a very wise friend and together we have explored what communication really is about. How do we speak to each-other? Especially when there is anger, disappointment or resentment? By projecting our negative feelings on to the [...]
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INVISIBLE STRESS
Posted in Aromatherapy, Personal development, Stress, tagged essential oils, lavender, ylang-ylang, rosemary, eucalyptus, geranium, Massage, healing, pain, diet, head-aches, meditation, mandarine, sandalwood, roman chamomile, inner stress, nausea, migraine, mind-map, breathing, pepper-mint on July 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
(Escher: Labyrinth) I am working with a young woman who suffers from an invisible, high-level stress. Her stress comes from inside and even though she’s plenty busy, this is not the source of her problems. The first signs were head-aches that over time became both more frequent and painful. Then she became aggressive and worried. [...]
TIME MANAGEMENT
Posted in Lifestyle, Personal development, Stress, tagged respect, Goals, time management, schedule, organize, priority, time-line on July 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Salvador Dali; persistence of time Time is not always the same, time is not linear: When you are totally stressed out, time shrinks and no matter how you run, you never catch up. When you are relaxed, on the other hand, time stretches and no matter how leisurely you move, you are always ahead. This [...]
STRONGER THAN YOU THINK – BELIEVE IT!
Posted in Aromatherapy, Personal development, medicine, tagged alternatives, balance, belief, essential oils, fear, healing, Massage, mindset, mobility, multiple sclerosis on June 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have had a client with Multiple Sclerosis. She was diagnosed in her late teens, 20 years ago, so this has been a part of her life most of her life. She was surprisingly mobile considering how long she had been ill, but as it goes with MS, it comes in waves, each time leaving [...]
BODY AWARENESS
Posted in Lifestyle, Personal development, Wellness, tagged aging, beauty, bulimia, obesity, plastic surgery, pride, youth on June 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I listen to many young people, and what is becoming more and more evident is this constant, incessant talk of body and weight. I am seriously disturbed by this. Like so many other girls, I grew up with a weight-fixated mother and that left me with disturbed body-notions. I was – of course – always [...]
THE GUEST HOUSE
Posted in Lifestyle, Personal development, Uncategorized, tagged guest house, poem, rumi on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. [...]
Tao te ching
Posted in Personal development, Uncategorized, tagged journey, learning, Personal development, Tao, Uncategorized on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow I start living the Tao. I will document this in a special blog: http://annastao.wordpress.com In this blog I will chronicle every aspect of the journey; frustrations, learning and understanding. I believe it will take about a year. If anybody else is doing, or about to do, anything like this, please share.
FEAR
Posted in Lifestyle, Personal development, Uncategorized, tagged control, excuses, fear, freedom, joy, Lifestyle, Personal development, programming, question, Uncategorized on May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fear is the most effective way of control. Fear is one of the strongest emotional drives within every individual; Fear of dying, fear of failure, fear of being shunned, fear, fear, fear. One of the biggest fears in society is about money and economy; to not have enough. Upon this fear one of the biggest [...]
THE BRAIN
Posted in Lifestyle, Personal development, tagged brain, emotion, information, learning, Lifestyle, memory, mind maps, Personal development, subconscious, tony buzan on May 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Previously I have talked about how we react to scents and how essential oils can interact with us through the limbic system of the brain. We constantly program our brains (subconscious) with different information; the more emotional the information is, the stronger the programming. Every time we are subjected to an impulse we immediately go [...]
SELF-HELP
Posted in Lifestyle, Personal development, Wellness, tagged balance, change, Goals, learning, Lifestyle, Personal development, self-help, success, tools, Uncategorized, Wellness on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is a saying; “don’t give them fish, teach them how to fish”. Many people who come to see me want a “quick fix”, hoping that I will wave my magic wand and all that is difficult will just vanish. It doesn’t function like this. We have become so used to the quick fixes of [...]
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