Moving Through Depression, Literally by Maggie Baker Maggie writes about a very personal journey from a major breakdown seven years ago. She tells of how repression of her real self was at the heart of her problems and how she has overcome these to a certain extent by allowing herself to ‘rant and rage’ and to channel her energies in more constructive, creative and appropriate ways.

Empowerment Through Coaching by Linda Markley Coaching is a modern tool that can empower and bring significant shifts and goal achievements more quickly, with more enjoyment and less stress.

Fulfilling Your Life Potential by Anthony Aurelius Anthony Aurelius is a Professional Life Coach, working with clients over the telephone. In this article, he outlines strategies that can lead to a happier and more satisfying life. He stresses that individuals can enhance each strategy by consulting a Coach whenever the need arises.

Happiness and the Immune System by Dr Shara BA Cohen Dr Cohen is an immunologist, scientific consultant, science writer and lecturer who specialises in presenting science for non-scientists. Here she presents the biological evidence supporting the idea that your mood and emotional responses can have an important effect on your health.

Coaching to Optimize Your Life by Tina Korup Life Coaching provides a one-to-one relationship and combines different tools and techniques to map out a structure to assist the achievement of long-term results in terms of life and career changes, performance improvement, improved focus, enhancement of personal power, increased satisfaction and fulfilment and the achievement of goals.

Mystical Gardens of Bellenau by Vivienne Silver-Leigh Vivienne Silver-Leigh shares her experiences of Chateau Bellenau in Normandy, which has been restored over the past three years to provide a peaceful and magical setting for transformative groupwork for alternative therapy groups and business and coaching groups.

Survival and Transformation from Terminal Cancer by Martin Brofman The author takes us on his remarkable journey of self-discovery that led to a total transformation of his whole Being and complete healing following a diagnosis of terminal cancer of the spinal cord.

The Mind, Metaphor & Health by Penny Tompkins and James Lawley This article explains why metaphor is a natural way to describe illness and health, the importance of recognizing patients’/clients’ metaphors, and how working within these metaphors can activate an individual’s personal healing process.

Psychoneuroimmunology and NLP by Nancy Blake As practitioners or clients of complementary therapies, we are constantly made aware of the split between ‘science-based’ allopathic medicine, which mostly looks at symptoms of ‘diseases’, single causes and single ‘cures’, and our practice, which attempts to understand the whole individual in the context of the entire environment, external and internal.

The Good Mood Guide by Donna Welsh In light of today's increasing use of antidepressants, Donna Welsh describes different holistic approaches to overcoming negative moods.

The Emotional Dimension in Children's Life Threatening Illnesses by Tony Quinlan Using the case of an eight-year-old girl, who was found to be suffering from Stevens Johnsons Syndrome - a severe allergic reaction to medication - Tony Quinlan explores the complex arena of emotions experienced by the child with a life-threatening illness and by others.

Rediscovering Your Own Unique Reality by Regan Duggan In this article, Regan Duggan shows us how to put aside the worldview created for us by the experiences of our parents, teachers, partners, etc., and recreate our own unique reality.

The Myths We Live By by Dorothy Rowe Psychologist Dorothy Rowe exposes our potentially harmful underlying beliefs

Perceptual Enhancement Programme by Inside-Out Learning by Jeffry and Pamela Sharp This article describes the idea behind the perceptual learning programme developed by Inside-Out Learning, the key features of the programme and the benefits achievable.

A Quiet Place by Penelope Moon An action research programme to develop emotional health, self-esteem and confidence of children

Bolles Sensory Learning Method™ by Mary Bolles The Bolles Sensory Learning Method™ is an innovative non-cognitive approach to developmental learning that utilizes enhanced natural sensory stimulation for remediation of an individual’s emergent faculties.

Simple Memorizing Techniques by Laura Lane  “I have a memory like a sieve.” Who hasn’t heard that lament many times from people convinced they have a terrible memory? The fact is, what we remember often has more to do with factors such as . . .

A New Vision of Psychoneuroimmunology by Will Wilson My original intention in writing this article was to explore Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) and its recent developments. .

Enneagram: The key to fulfilment by Andrew Shaw An X-ray of the human mind is unveiled. Nine different windows through which our reality is skewed

Gestalt Therapy and Humanistic Psychology by Sheldon Litt, Ph.D. Psychology is a discordant discipline. The beginning of the 1900s saw the rise of behaviourism in the laboratory, and the ascendancy of psychoanalysis in the treatment room.

The Experience of Depression by Dorothy Rowe Each of us experiences depression in an image which is idiosyncratically our own, and yet which shares a meaning with all other people’s images of the experience of depression.

Natural Approaches to Depression by Rory Myles Most of us have watched a relative or friend struggle with depression – and many of us have experienced it ourselves.

Mind Over Minefield by Dr Harry Alder Complementary medicine can be a minefield. Sometimes a battlefield. Its typical freelance sole proprietor can be as fiercely competitive as any ruthless corporate giant.

Autogenic Therapy – the best form of self-help by Jane Bird But can we learn to activate our own self-righting mechanisms? Can we cause the healing capacity to work at our own command and directive, rather than giving that power to another person (a therapist)? . . .
     The answer is ‘Yes we can’.

The Emotional Freedom Technique by Paul and Val Lynch Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a powerful technology for quickly resolving emotional distress.

The Enneagram: Basic Instincts by Andrew Shaw Are there people in your life you are attracted to even though your personalities are very different?

The Enneagram and Health: A tool for transformation by Denise Coen and Jane Vukovic The Enneagram is a tool to uncover our compulsive life patterns. We create our own intimate world, by the thoughts we hold, the words we speak.

Moving Through Depression: A Few Steps Further by Maggie Baker. A follow up to her previous article Moving Through Depression.

The Incredible Dream Oracle by David Melbourne & Dr Keith Hearne Here, the authors explain an amazing and completely new way of getting important messages from the unconscious mind, via dreams, yet requiring no interpretation.

The Concept of the Virtual Self by Dr Keith Hearne Dr Hearne has developed the concept of the Virtual Self – a psychological self-image that includes present, childhood and seeming past life information.

Biosynthesis – A Body Psychotherapy by Yig Labworth  Biosynthesis is a body-psychotherapy developed by David Boadella in the early 1970s. His approach grew out of many years experience with Reichian therapy.

Cultivating the Mind for Positive Health by Barry Mapp We are encouraged to exercise our physical body in order to maintain good health: To “use it or lose it“. The current focus of this good sense is on our “body” and the heart. The same maxim, however, applies to the brain, the mind and the memory.

Shock and Trauma by Will Wilson Effects of shock are often missed by doctors and therapists. Such things as surgery, falls, car accidents and physical, emotional or sexual abuse, and less obvious events such as fever or poisoning may well traumatise people.

The Mind Map® as an Aid for Therapists by Ian Woodrow This article, based upon my experience using learning-to-learn models for therapeutic benefit, features visual aids and particularly Mind Mapping®.

Against Mind-Body Medicine by Andrew Vickers That the health of the mind and body are linked is generally seen as obvious, almost beyond question. The belief is part of our folk-lore: clichés such as "healthy body, healthy mind" and "dying of a broken heart" express the physical-mental connection in opposite directions.

A Walk Through Robin’s Brain The following story is an excerpt of a taped dialogue between cancer patient, Robin Jones and his physiotherapist, Mary Douglas. It was taped at St Catherine’s Hospice in Crawley, Sussex on 5 September, 1992. It was Robin’s desire to record some of the discoveries he made during his recovery from a brain haemorrhage some 7 years previously, first in re-learning how to speak and later in the control of cancer pain. He hoped they could be of value to those suffering a similar plight or to those professionals working in this area of research or clinical practice.

Lucid Dreams by Dr Keith Hearne A ‘lucid’ dream is one in which you suddenly become perfectly aware – while still asleep and dreaming – that you are actually dreaming.

Mind Mapping® for Positive Health by Barry Mapp Mind Mapping was devised as a memory tool by Tony Buzan in the '70s and since that time, it has evolved considerably and its applications have extended substantially. A Mind Map® is a powerful, but simple, graphical tool which provides a “key” to unlocking the potential of the Brain.

Moving Through Depression by Maggie Baker Two years ago, at the age of forty, I was diagnosed with depression. Depression wasn't a new arrival in my life at that point. It had just taken a long time for it to be identified; not least by me. . . .So what has been my experience of depression? And how have I coped with it?

The Power of Thought over the Physical Body by Keith Mason Ph.D. The power of thought processes and the act of thinking, and the effects upon the human organism in connection with health and illness, have largely been ignored by conventional medicine.