Digestion & immunity

Date 22 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s hard to believe that we’re made of 90% bacteria. For every cell in your body, we have 9 cells of bacteria living in and on our body. Most of the bacteria is living inside our intestinal tract and the health of this organism is critical to the overall health…
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Skin cancer study

Date 4 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers. For decades, we have known that ultraviolet-radiation from sunlight bombards our skin and has the potential to trigger changes from healthy to cancerous tissue. A recent study, suggests that more than 25% of a middle-aged person's skin may have already made…
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Stuck in old patterns

Date 1 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Emotionally, we will always stay stuck when the old patterns stick. As we are predisposed to behave in certain ways, our current experiences will continue to trigger the old patterns. Unfortunately, as we go about our daily lives, we continue to perpetuate the old predisposed patterns set from our past.…
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Our moral compass

Date 29 May 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
A moral compass is a person’s ability to judge what is right and wrong and act accordingly. Our moral compass is partly responsible for the way we live our lives, the other part is our values. For us to incorporate worth to our values, we need to understand, so do…
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About blame

Date 26 May 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Do you still get blamed for the things you’re not responsible for and is that blame being directed towards someone who clearly isn’t to blame or remotely responsible? The mind continues to reason, understands the logic and the reasoning, but still won’t let it go. Perhaps we think that if…
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Understanding our thinking

Date 22 May 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Science shows it is our thoughts on the things that happen to us that have the biggest impact on how we feel and how we will go on to act on those things. Thoughts don’t just apply to the big events that happen in our lives, but to the small…
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Harmful thoughts

Date 20 May 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
It is normal to think about issues, but when does what we think, spill over into our emotions, and cause us to have health problems. In 1947 the World Health Organisation defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing.” Until now governments and healthcare practitioners have…
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We make assumptions

Date 10 May 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
We make assumptions about people before we really know anything about them. When confronted, we’ll wrongly assume and then keep up the pretence, rather than admit we were wrong. Perhaps it’s us wanting to be right, so we’ll never admit we’re wrong, what we see in someone else is as…
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Different but similar

Date 30 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Have you ever stopped to notice how animals view their world? I’m always watching my cat view her world. She teaches me something new all the time. I just love to watch her. Cats will explore their territory as if it’s completely new, even though it’s the same territory they…
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Why we remain stuck

Date 29 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
There are many reasons why we remain stuck, but until we choose to change, we will always remain stuck. For us to move forward, we must deal with our issues, therefore changing our circumstances. It’s easier to become unstuck, when it’s someone else holding us back. As long as we’re…
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In two minds

Date 22 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
We’re constantly being conditioned from the minute we’re born. The conditioning takes the form through our unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is defined as part of the mind that gives rise to a collection of thoughts, which lays beneath the surface of our conscious, which we have no access to…
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Serenity explained

Date 20 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.” - Reinhold Niebuhr. Back to this wonderful quote. I absolutely love it because it not only ...
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