Had a wonderful time speaking with Jules Hannaford of Hong Kong Confidential. We discussed Hypnotherapy in depth – what it is, how it works, how you know you’re under hypnosis, what to expect in a hypnotherapy session and what you can […]

Raising a child with down syndrome can both be challenging and rewarding – challenging because children with Down syndrome have their distinctive personalities. It’s also rewarding because they bring special kind of joy to their families. In this Naari – […]

The Sanskrit word moola means the foundation or root. Bandha means lock or restraint. The two words Mooladhara chakra refer to the seat of the kundalini. The bandha or lock refers to the contraction of the perineum rendering us the […]

  Do you find yourself hurting over things people say easily these days? Perhaps you are experiencing a difficult relationship?  Perhaps your adult child is not communicating with you? Maybe your partner is quick tempered. Do you find yourself welling […]

  Sometimes we may have been so violated and hurt by someone or an incident that it leaves us in smarting and entrapped in feelings of deep pain. The same thoughts, memories and words ring in our mind. It might […]

  Imagine this: Your child hates school because he fears being asked questions by the teacher in math class. Having to stand up in class mumbling a possible answer or worse staying silent can be extremely unnerving. He feels that […]

  If you were to research cancer, you would be given a lot of statistics, medical jargon and all sorts of cases and treatment options. Stephen J Gould’s essay, The Median Isn’t the Message, which he wrote shortly after his diagnosis […]

  This pilot study examined the effects of EMDR and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in treating posttraumatic stress disorder in cancer patients in the follow-up phase of the disease. The study also aimed to examine whether EMDR treatment has a different impact […]

  The exposure to a life-threatening disease such as cancer may constitute a traumatic experience that in some cases may lead to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In recent years, several studies investigated this syndrome in patients with […]

  We have all heard that stress predisposes us to illness. But how does stress really increase our susceptibility to illness? The body is built with homeostatic mechanisms to protect it from diseases and it keeps a close surveillance to […]