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Don't Regret. Start Anew.

26th Oct 2024

Don’t look back at your life and wish you had lived differently. No matter your age, you can start anew whenever you choose. When it comes down to it, you’re holding all the cards. You may feel a bit faint-hearted about this, but there are many positive steps you can take. To start with, how about an affirmation for when you feel doubtful? 'This moment is the first of the rest of my life.'  'If I’m determined, I can.'  'I’ll face the sun, letting shadows fall behind me.' Read on...

Benefits of Failure

The Benefits of Failure

20th Oct 2024

Fear of failure may be preventing you from taking risks and exploring new opportunities, but failure is a natural part of life and essential for growth. In today's fast-paced world, failure is often viewed as the ultimate setback. But this is wrong. It can be an influential teacher, propelling you towards eventual success. The light bulb inventor Thomas Edison said, 'I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.' This perspective highlights the essence of learning from our missteps.

Resilience

Resilience: The Key to Overcoming Life's Challenges

6th Oct 2024

Resilience is not a trait we are born with, but a powerful skill we can develop through experience, practice and intention. Our world is full of challenges and stressors, and building resilience is essential for maintaining mental and emotional wellbeing. It is also within our control. Resilience is adapting well when faced with adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant stress. It is the ability to 'bounce back' from these experiences. 

Brain Health

The Gut-Brain Link

29th Sep 2024

What you eat directly impacts your gut health and, consequently, your brain function. Research shows that the gut microbiome, the community of bacteria living in your intestines, plays a critical role in this connection. A healthy gut can improve mood, cognitive function and mental health. For example, serotonin, the happy hormone, is predominantly produced in the gut. So, a balanced and healthy gut can contribute to a more stable mood.

Feng Shui Can Boost Your Wellbeing

Feng Shui Can Boost Your Wellbeing

21st Sep 2024

Feng Shui is a profound art of arranging a person's surroundings in harmony and balance with the natural world. This creates a more harmonious environment that allows positive energy (chi) to flow freely. It can lead to a noticeable increase in vitality, productivity, and overall wellbeing. Your balanced personal space also creates optimum conditions for balance and wellbeing in your home, body and life. Here are some ways in which Feng Shui can improve your quality of life:

Managing Chronic Fatigue

Managing Chronic Fatigue

5th Aug 2024

Dealing with chronic fatigue can be incredibly tough, as its impact goes beyond feeling tired. It can disrupt everyday life and affect overall wellbeing. As well as seeking support from healthcare professionals, friends, family, and support groups, re-visiting your lifestyle can help you tremendously. Making specific lifestyle changes, when carried out with commitment, can bring a sense of hope and control. At Come Alive, we believe in these lifestyle changes as critical components....

Food for Mental Health

Nutrition for Mental Health

12th Jun 2024

What we eat can significantly impact our energy levels and overall wellbeing. Research shows that certain nutrients are essential for brain health and can affect our mood and cognitive function. Here are some foods worth eating, and some nutritional actions to take, all to boost mental health. 1.Omega-3: For brain development and function. Helps to reduce anxiety and depression. Found in fatty fish, walnuts, chia seeds. 2.Vitamin B complex: Helps produce healthy brain chemicals ... 

Avoid Bad Chi at the Front of Your Property

Avoid Bad Chi at the Front of your Property

5th May 2024

Feng shui horrors were mounting on this new apartment block being built. It was on a corner, next to a roundabout, car bonnets and headlights aiming sha chi at it from all directions. Tall knife-shaped decorations at the front of the building. Below them a low wall, with water rushing down steps into a trough. The water flow aimed at the road. Water symbolises money, and money was flowing away!

Positive Thinking

How to Change from Negative to Positive

27th Apr 2024

Positive thinking is an attitude of expecting a good outcome, which can lead to a multitude of benefits. It filters your thoughts, images, and words, allowing only those conducive to a positive outcome. This can result in improved health, success, better relationships, a progressive career, energy, self-confidence,  and more. The potential of positive change is immense. Positive thinking techniques can help you cope and feel better whatever your current challenge.

 

Feng Shui Hell in a Hotel Room

Feng Shui Hell in a Hotel Room

20th Apr 2024

How many people leave this hotel room feeling ill, nervous, shattered, and spooked? I had my worst night's sleep in this room some years ago. I checked in quickly and rushed off to a meeting that ended late at night. When I returned, I was desperate to drop into bed and sleep. I had no time to feng shui the room apart from covering the television and the full-length mirror. During the night, I felt hyperactive, slightly ill, and scared, with a sense of foreboding.

Make Things Happen With a Vision Board

Make Things Happen With a Vision Board

14th Apr 2024

A vision board is a powerful tool that can help you clarify, focus on, and manifest your goals and aspirations by visualising them. Looking at your vision board daily can motivate you and encourage a positive mindset as you focus on your goals.  The idea of the vision board is to cultivate a positive mindset, make your goals seem real and achievable...

The Link Between Diet and Disease

The Link Between Diet and Disease

6th Apr 2024

We all know there's a link between diet and disease, yet do we give much thought to what we eat, where the food goes when it leaves the mouth, or what it does to the body? For some, the body is merely a receptacle for anything to stop the tummy rumbling or to satisfy a need at that moment, and from where rubbish exits at the other end.