Dr Amy L LANSKY responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a homeopathic educator? My first, real experience of homeopathy, as some of you, ThinkWellness360, readers may know, was actually the most miraculous — the cure of my son Max’s autism. All this began in early 1995. The initial effects
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV I often receive and attend to several calls every summer from people asking me what homeopathic remedies I recommend them to take along when they are travelling overseas. When my daughter, for instance, went to India, some years ago, I prepared a kit for her. These are the remedies that I
Words: Dr Anne VERVARCKE Pamela [name changed], a girl of 16; she lives in Belgium. The girl has a history of blind rage, which has caused her to be suspended and ultimately barred from several schools. She says she gets into a blind rage, using brutal, coarse language. She says she is not proud of
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Our modern diet plan quantifies food per gram — of the whole meal, or each composition, and overall calories for every meal. Ever wondered if there was a standard plan for every human being, including the apparently healthy individual? The fact is: people vary so much from one another with
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 Music has been a chronological hit extravaganza for aeons — from Vedic times, early history, the era of Plato, Pythagoras, the mediaeval times, and the age of Thyagaraja, to our present point in time, the epoch of hi-tech glitz. New research suggests that some of the networks in the human brain seem
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR We all know that TV, the eternal baby-sitter, or surrogate mother, is magic potion. Yet, there’s also a huge dark side to TV. TV has not only battered our values, it has also marginalised old-fashioned conversations, at home, and outside of it, including good habits like reading, or watching a stage-play.
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Maintaining a balanced, positive state of health is a challenge we all face as we age. And, dealing with illness when it arises can be daunting. However, if we look for meaning in dis-eases, we come to understand that illness is merely a state of imbalance and is present in order
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The quintessential discovery of hypnosis is attributed to Dr Franz Anton Mesmer, MD, the ‘non-conformist’ 18th-century Viennese physician. Dr Mesmer, it is now evidenced, used a method similar to modern hypnosis, or hypnotherapy, with the sole intention of removing neurotic symptoms. Dr Mesmer discovered that when he applied magnets on some
Words: Dr Ryan N HARRISON When most people think of the term ‘health,’ they relate it to how well they are feeling, whether or not they are sick, or how quickly they recover from the bugs that get passed around between friends, family, and co-workers. Each of these aspects is connected, of course, to the
Words: Dr Renita HERRMANN Why aren’t you in perfect health? Your life is a balance, and to maintain that balance, your flow of energy must remain intact. You have a life force [vital] energy that is strong when you’re born healthy. You may have lots of energy when young, and if everything went well, you
