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3 days ago • 1 min readResources For Life Ear Acupressure. Tiny Points, Big Benefits. Ear acupressure is the sort of thing that sounds like it belongs in the back pages of an in-flight magazine wedged between a turmeric foot soak and a tantric vegan retreat. But suspend your disbelief for just a moment. This is no mystic mumbo jumbo whispered by a man in hemp robes, it’s delightfully simple. You can do it flat on your back in bed as you wake, or upright watching TV. It requires no candles, chants, or inconvenient...
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7 days ago • 1 min readResources For Life Sunglasses: A Dark Joke on Human Biology It's time for my annual rant against suncreams, but this year I'm including sunglasses. In my view, suncream is emulsified cowardice, a clammy lubricant slathered on by the paranoid to prevent the sun from doing what it should.....creating Vitamin D; supporting life itself. Sunglasses? They trick the body into thinking it's dusk at noon, suppressing valuable cortisol and serotonin production. Both are the sad, beige accessories of...
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10 days ago • 1 min readResources For Life Your Liquid Life Support Cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, if you're in a hurry, is the brain’s butler, housekeeper, chauffeur, and personal trainer all rolled into one clear, clever cocktail. It cushions your grey matter like a Rolls-Royce suspension, tidies up molecular messes with the discretion of an old-school valet, and ensures that the scaffolding of your nervous system stays at just the right pressure. Not too full, not too empty. Goldilocks would approve. But, of...
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14 days ago • 1 min readResources For Life Why We’ve Been Making Language Learning Too Hard, And How to Remedy It They say the best age to learn a foreign language is between 8 and 9 years old. Given Wyner's approach (click on the article for more), that has to be old-school thinking. The best time to learn a foreign language using this method is starting today, right NOW, before you go on holiday to somewhere warm in Europe. There are so many health benefits, predominantly associated with the brain. Essential these...
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17 days ago • 1 min readResources For Life How Will You Die? Do You Know When? Am I writing about death to be macabre? Who knows. I’m certainly writing this to elevate your awareness of potential danger so you avoid an untimely death. - - - - - A recent newsletter carried a piece about the hard times ahead, entitled 'Noah Start Building'. Since writing that, two heavyweight news announcements have rocked the world of marketing and advertising for all sizes of business as well as employees. If you aren't aware, this...
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21 days ago • 1 min readResources For Life Death Certificates: The Great Ventriloquists of Medicine With apologies to readers outside England - if you find yourself anywhere within the gravitational pull of Newcastle upon Tyne this Sunday, the 4th May (tomorrow!) - perhaps lured by the echo of Geordie optimism, you might do worse than drop in on my good friend, Tony. He’ll be holding forth, in what I can only imagine will be his usual mixture of fire and forensic charm, on the topic of “The Perils of Modern...
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24 days ago • 1 min readResources For Life Noah, Start Building! This is a departure. A step off the well-trodden path of what you might normally expect from these pages. But before you furrow your brow, understand this: whether you own a business, married into one, inherited it like a pet, or merely cash your monthly cheque from one - you're already in the thick of it. And what's coming? Well, it’s biblical. Not biblical in the wine-into-water, loaves-for-all, angels-with-trumpets sense. No, this is Old Testament...
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28 days ago • 1 min readResources For Life An Ode To Olive Oil A valuable metaphor for the lives of many (with thanks to Jason Christoff)...plus a bonus clip from Derren Brown. https://www.jchristoff.com/blog/this-one-simple-58-second-video-will-show-you-exactly-why-you-re-struggling-in-life Graeme & Phylipa Dinnen ResourcesForLife.net Click to Read: An Ode To Olive Oil Next Issue: A departure from the normal type of article 1 Vor Vounder, West Beach Road, Porthtowan, Cornwall TR4 8AD Unsubscribe
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about 1 month ago • 1 min readResources For Life Measles: What You Need To Know - Not What They Tell You! In this increasingly insecure age of food supplies, even growing what you can in limited space can make a difference, and maybe prepare you for grander things as circumstances dictate.For a FREE webinar on how to grow lots of food in your backyard even if you have no experience, are older, or out of shape… go to www.BackyardFoodProduction.com Graeme & Phylipa Dinnen ResourcesForLife.net Click To Read: Measles - What...
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