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A Holistic approach resolves Mental Health problems better than drugs can.

 

Physical health and mental health are deeply intertwined, each influencing the other in a bidirectional relationship. From a holistic perspective, here's how physical health can impact mental health:

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  1. Chronic Physical Conditions: Chronic physical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, or autoimmune diseases can have a significant impact on mental health. These conditions often require lifestyle changes and long-term management, which can lead to stress, anxiety, and depression.

  2. Exercise and Movement: Regular physical activity has been proven to lower rates of depression and anxiety across all age groups. Exercise is not only essential for physical health but also for mental health as it produces endorphins (the body's natural mood lifters), improves sleep, and increases self-esteem. Exercise is an important part of a mental health plan, yet it is often overlooked medically.

  3. Nutrition and Diet: What we eat can affect how we feel. Certain nutrients are essential for the production of neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine, which regulate mood. A diet lacking in these nutrients can increase the risk of mental health issues.  Blood sugar imbalance, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome can also be caused by a high carbohydrate diet, getting this deep inflammatory imbalance under control is also essential for mental and physical health, and can be a make or break factor in supporting long term recovery and stability.

  4. Sleep: Sleep is crucial for both physical and mental health. Lack of sleep can lead to physical problems such as a weakened immune system and can also contribute to mental health issues like depression and anxiety. The right diet, the right nutritional support, and the right lifestle practices are important to optimise the circadian cycles of the body. 

  5. Pain: Chronic pain can lead to mental health problems like depression and anxiety, and these mental health problems can, in turn, intensify the pain.  A holistic approach that provides an anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle, nutritional optimisation, together with microcurrent treatment can greatly improve chronic pain. 

  6. Gut Health: The gut-brain axis represents the close connection between the digestive system and the brain. An imbalance in the gut microbiota can influence mental health, potentially contributing to conditions like depression and anxiety. 

  7. Substance Use: Substance use and misuse can cause a range of physical health problems and can also significantly impact mental health.

  8. Electromagnetic Radiation & Overuse of Screens - The introduction of screens into our lives has coincided with a sharp upturn of mental health issues. late nights, stressful content, radiation and blue light over-exposure are just a few of the factors that hijack the body's essential requirements to build stable mental and emotional health. 

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A holistic approach to health recognizes these interconnections and aims to work at the cause of issues, treating the whole person, not just individual symptoms or conditions. A holistic approach emphasizes the importance of a balanced diet, regular physical activity, stress management, and a good sleep routine for both physical and mental health. It also encourages the development of strong social connections and fulfilling activities, recognizing that our environment and experiences play a significant role in our overall well-being.

Emotional Health
Enhancing Nourishment
Clearing Pathogens
Supporting Neurotransmitters
Healing Addictions
Balancing the Microbiome
Resolving somatic energy blocks
Healing the heart to free the future

Mental Health & the Microbiome

 

The microbiome, particularly the gut microbiome, has a profound impact on mental health through what's known as the gut-brain axis. This is a bidirectional communication system between the central nervous system (brain) and the gastrointestinal tract.

 

The gut microbiome influences the gut-brain axis through several mechanisms:

  1. Neurotransmitter Production: Many of the neurotransmitters that regulate our mood and cognition, like serotonin and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), are produced by gut bacteria. Disruptions to the gut microbiota could affect the levels of these neurotransmitters, which may in turn impact mental health.

  2. Inflammation and Immune Function: The gut microbiome plays a vital role in regulating our immune response. An imbalanced microbiome can lead to chronic inflammation, which has been linked to various mental health conditions, including depression and anxiety.

  3. Stress Response: The gut microbiome can influence the body's response to stress, including the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which controls our body's stress response. Disruptions to the gut microbiome can affect the functioning of the HPA axis, potentially leading to stress-related mental health conditions.

  4. Metabolite Production: Gut bacteria produce a range of metabolites, some of which can act on the brain. For example, short-chain fatty acids produced by gut bacteria have multiple effects on brain function and have been linked to mental health.

 

Research in this area is ongoing, and while it's clear that the gut microbiome has a significant impact on mental health, the full extent and nature of this relationship is still being discovered. It's important to note that while the gut microbiome is a key factor in mental health, it's only one piece of a complex puzzle that includes genetics, life experiences, and other environmental factors. A holistic approach is essential for lasting results.

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Naturopathy can help

Mental health issues, like health issues, manifest for a reason. Working with a naturopath alongside your other mainstream health team can help you get better results faster, and results tend to be more long-lasting and resilient.

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Health is everything. Healthy body, healthy mind, better life. 

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what the mind perceives

the body believes

Emotional Reset Process

This process is a bit like a mindfulness process where we are applying full attention from a relaxed mind-state, to review and process th body body's experience in regard to the issues you are dealing with mentally, physically and emotionally.  This experience helps bring insight and awareness to inner and outer experiences right now, helps you get clear and release the blocked energy from your body, and future experience. from the snags of the past. This work moves a person toward becoming more emotionally free and aligned with the highest and best aspects of personal experience of who you are.  Releasing emotional blocks helps the body move more energy arond the body to better support the healing process, engage a more pleasant mental and emotional state and restore harmony to the intelligent body's systems.

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The truth is ...

We were all born amazing. It is the nature of our soul. Think of how a baby relates to the world in the early years before indoctrination becomes embedded. They are naturally soulful, expressive, creative, unconditionally loving, joyous, humour-filled, delight-full, curious, trusting and light. The process of growing up tends to obstruct these qualities as we endeavor to fit into a life programmed with right, wrong, good, bad and the expectations and judgments of others. Emotions, experiences, events and memories obstruct these inherent qualities and cause us to forget who we are.

 

How it works

Just as you would spring clean your house, there comes a time when it is necessary to spring clean your mind and the emotions and memories being held within the body and mind. 

 

The way we facilitate this gentle processes is through a simple relaxation process which allows your brain to move out of the critical busy-ness of the Beta brain wave state, into the calm, relaxed and creative state of the Theta mind, the place you move through every night on your way to sleep, the state you use when you undertake a creative visualisation meditation.

 

Connecting you with your soul-self, the part of you that is your inner guide, is the part that can connect you with your inner knowing, the place where your memories are stored, and you answers are. This place is accessible only once the critical mind is calmed and relaxed. We use this relaxed state to guide you through a process that enables you access to your own insights and natural clarity, a state that is natural once you realign with your strengths, abilities, skills, gifts, inspirations and knowings, all the soulful qualities that make you, You. 

 

Once you see for yourself what is going on inside, it's really nice to know that you have a choice about what you believe, what you do, what you carry and what you can now, as the adult you are, let go of.  Change is easy once you understand what is really going on for you. 

 

An emotional detox like this helps you to clarify and identify the things that are holding you back from expressing your true Self.  It enables you to clear the dross, let go of what you no longer need, unblock your body, and reconnect to your purpose. Coming to daily life clear in this way benefits how you feel and what you do. It helps you to better deal with the mundane stresses and issues of life. It naturally alters how the body works, and connects you to what needs to happen next.  Coming to life with a clean slate changes what you bring to everything you do, your relationships, work, family life, creative flow, health, food choices, exercise, motivation levels. It can also help you release unwanted habits with greater awareness.

 

We can't separate the physical and mental aspects of our being. They are interdependent. All physical conditions have their roots in the emotional body. Reconnecting you with yourself releases holding patterns in the body that restrict energy flow and obstruct function. Releasing blocks changes the way body works, physiologically and biochemically, thereby supporting the body's healing capacity, naturally.

Helping you integrate physical, mental and emotional energy, for better health
& wellbeing on all levels

Emotional Healing
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