Seeing with new eyes

Date 5 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
We spend a lifetime looking at things in the same way, failing to see and learn new things. As the French Novelist Marcel Proust once said, “The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” We don’t have to discover new landscapes…
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Our approach to summer

Date 2 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
We're into summer time again and with annual holidays just around the corner, you’ll want to feel and be at your best. These are my top tips for staying healthy: Drinking fluids is important in the hot summer months, more so because it’s easy to dehydrate. Not only does water…
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The universe knows

Date 30 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
The universe works from a higher power. It knows exactly what we’re doing and when we’re doing it. If we’re being selfish, the universe knows that too; if we’re try to make a situation work to our advantage, the universe will always know we’re being selfish. We might try to…
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Trust and doing what's right

Date 26 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
We’re taught from an early age that we must do what’s right even if others don’t. Karma teaches us that we’re accountable for ourselves and accountable to others too, therefore it is important we do what’s right, even if others fail to do right by us. Doing what is right…
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Being nice

Date 23 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Sometimes we’re better off staying away from people who almost make not being nice an art form. They’re mean. They’re also not the people you would choose to spend time with. As a nation, we’ve become more self-centred, more aloof, less patient, more selfish. We’re emotionally distracted. We don’t take…
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Adapt and change

Date 19 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Adapt and change, stagnate or get left behind. The capacity to adapt comes through our ability to deal with the mental, emotional and physical challenges. How we manage to incorporate a new mind set and our subsequent behaviour, determines how successful our new mind-set and behaviour pattern will be. The…
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Education -v- being worldly

Date 18 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Education opens the mind to new and exciting possibilities, but education isn’t necessarily about formal education. I didn’t quite tick the box on a formal education through no fault of mine, but still believe that just by living, failing and finding an understanding on living we educate ourselves. The more…
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Dealing with change

Date 14 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
We’re born, we grow and we change. Although change comes from a multitude of places, it’s how we change and come through change that matters. Change initially comes through school, through peer pressure, through culture and society, primarily because we’re expected to fit in and conform. Moving away from home…
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The art of resisting

Date 11 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
We resist the very things that will help us grow and move forward with our lives. We control and box the things we don’t want to deal with in the hope that those things will stay boxed. It’s almost become an art form because we do it so well. We…
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Family that fall out

Date 8 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Families either work or they don’t work at all. There seems to be no half measures. It’s important how children get to interact with their parents, how individually parents interact with their children, how children interact with their siblings and why sometimes those relationships don’t work. According to research, jealousy…
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Thoughts for positive change

Date 7 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
A study by researchers at California University in 2010 suggests that by the time we’re 7 years old our characters are fully formed. (Source: https://www.livescience.com) But what happens when we’ve had no support, when that voice in our head belittles our very existence, when it starts to draw comparisons with…
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Social stress & blood pressure

Date 4 June 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
There are suggestions that short-term stress-related spikes in blood pressure add up over time and may be putting us at risk of developing long-term high blood pressure. The jury is still out on this one and more research is needed. When we’re in stressful situations or we’re constantly being exposed…
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