Greenacres Health Blog

Box Breathing: A Simple Breathing Technique to Reduce Stress and Calm Your Nervous System

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Many of us underestimate the incredible power of our breath.

Breathing is something we do automatically every day, yet it has a direct and constant connection with our nervous system. In fact, when we experience stress, anxiety, or overwhelm, Read more

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Juggling the Plates of Wellness -The Vicious Circle of Health

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Achieving and maintaining wellness and good health isn’t a destination – it’s a dynamic, lifelong process. It involves juggling three interconnected “plates”: chemical (metabolic), emotional (mindset), and physical (fitness/lifestyle).

Drop one, and the whole system can begin to Read more

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Lethargy or Procrastination – The stealer of time and dreams!

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Lethargy or Procrastination? The two often get muddled up in our minds as the outcomes are often very similar.

Lethargy is more of a medical condition which is characterised by feelings of fatigue as well as a lack of Read more

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Top 5 tips to manage aches and pains

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I was asked recently if I had any hints and tips to manage aches and pains that don’t involve painkillers. Simple actions you can take to help your body stay active and repair itself quickly

These are my top Read more

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Good self-talk to instill resilience in your Teen

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It is important to good self-talk to instill resilience in your teen. The teen years are full of challenging experiences and changes and it is easy to become anxious or overwhelmed with feelings and succumb to nerves. Mantras are Read more

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The key to managing your to-do list

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We’ve all experienced it, the ever-increasing to-do list… You know, it’s that thing you get anxious over. The thing that is niggling you but you just have to get x, y and z done first and you never seem Read more

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Why is laughter good for you?

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We’ve all heard the phrase, “Laughter is the best medicine”. There are many benefits to laughing though some are more obvious than others.

Usually we associate laughter as an involuntary fast response to something that makes us happy, but Read more

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Walking Barefoot

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‘Earthing’ or ‘grounding’, is the act of walking barefoot on soil, grass, or sand, in nature, for approximately 30 minutes every day. When was the last time walked barefoot for a period to gain the positive benefits it can Read more

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Exam stress… now they’re finished, what happens?

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At some point in our lives, we all have to go through exam stress and exams. Whether taking them in your younger years or as a mature student, many of us have negative feelings toward them. Believing we will Read more

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