Category: East Sussex
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Why a Day at the Beach is Good for your Mental Health
Do you love the beach and instantly feel more relaxed and at peace by the sea? If so, you’re certainly not alone. In fact, being by the water is beneficial to our physical and mental health in numerous ways. In an interview with The Guardian, Dr Mathew White, an environmental psychologist, said the sea has…
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4 Key Factors for a Long Healthy Active Lifespan
Let’s all aim for a long Health-span rather than a long Lifespan! Modern medicine has focused on extending our life span, supported by the general public. This has been achieved but at a severe cost. If we look at America as a vision of where the UK follows a few years on, we should be…
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The Mental Health Benefits of Going Barefoot
Most of us are used to wearing shoes the majority of the time, but walking barefoot is not only good for your posture and physical health, it’s also beneficial for your mental wellbeing. Our ancestors were much more connected to the earth and spent the majority of their time outside – hunting, working on the…
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Brighton Early Music Festival Returns at Full Strength for 2023
After three years of disruption, experimentation, and adapting to circumstances, Brighton Early Music Festival returns this autumn in full pre-pandemic style with more than 20 events during September and October 2023. Artistic Director Deborah Roberts says: “Finally we are back as a full autumn festival after some challenging years! It was interesting to experiment with…
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Are There Two Vital Signs That Doctors Have Neglected for Half a Century?
With the great advances in modern medicine, attention has shifted from health education and promotion to pathology and the treatment of disease. This is why we now find our medical services under such pressure and often unable to meet the demands on them. This is in part due to a sicker society that has come…
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Recycling Number Two – Number One Priority!
There are some topics that most of us prefer not to discuss or even consider, especially at the dinner table! We would rather the topic and its solutions best remain out of sight and out of mind! At the risk of offending many of my readers I shall open this conversation! Modern man is the…
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The Language of Touch
Having offered gentle touch to people of all ages, from preterm babies to the elderly, in many different settings, I remain constantly amazed and in awe of the effect that pure, simple, gentle touch can have on another person. For years I have sought to understand why. What is it about touch that can have…
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How to Increase Self-Awareness, and Why It’s So Beneficial
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle How well do you really know yourself? Are you someone who often reflects on your internal processes or do you rarely give your patterns of behaviour a second thought? Self-awareness is defined as “conscious knowledge of one’s own character and feelings”. It’s the ability to…