Positive thinking can change your mind
Do you have a train of thought on which you ride when you are alone and quietly thinking? I do... Lately, I have been spending more time on self-care, involving a mindfulness practice, meditation, and spending time by myself, just observing.
One of the reasons I love Summer: Cherries, nutritionally good for you!
Summer time brings so much goodness... More ocean swims, daily if I can. Amazing sunsets, with a cocktail in hand if I can. Seasonal summer fruits, including my absolute favourite cherries, whenever I can. In fact I eat cherries every day when they are in season..mmmmmmm, delicious!! Most people like cherries, but did you know that they can also relieve pain, help you avoid premature ageing, and add years to your life?
Mojo Inspiration
Inspirational quotes, mantras and affirmations, vision boards, writing down your goals - these are all powerful tools to guide you along a chosen path. I'm currently working on my vision board and goals for 2015 (watch this space!) and thought I'd take a look back at some of the quotes and mantras that inspired me in 2014.
A New Year's Resolution Worth Making
Setting goals for ourselves is an essential step to a fulfilling life. Yet, New Year’s resolutions tend to have a bad rep. Why is this? From my previous experience they can have a sort of ceremonious way of setting us up for failure.
How To Maintain Not Gain at Christmas
During the Christmas holiday season, I plan to eat and drink and enjoy myself too much. I adore Christmas for this very reason, and will not be abstaining from a single thing I love (yes chocolate waffles, I'm talking about you!). But that doesn’t mean I want a two week blow-out with a side order of guilt, self-loathing and four extra kilos to see in the New Year with.
7 Steps for a Stress-Free Christmas
Does Christmas make you feel frazzled? If so, Mummy Mojo has the ultimate Christmas present for you: seven steps for a less stressful, more mojo-filled Christmas. Take a deep breath, read on and let us help you on your way to relaxation city.
Teach your children the value of kindness by giving back this Christmas
All of us want to be happy. As his Holiness the Dalai Lama said, "A more compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well being, is the source of happiness." With the festive season soon upon us, which is often a time of material excess, I am thinking about what happiness means to me.
Food that feeds the soul
On the Sunday before we left, they kindly offered to look after our kids and suggested we go for lunch at an organic cafe, right in the heart of Newcastle. And boy was I happy with their recommendation! Soul Foods Cafe make food that feeds the body and nourishes the soul. You feel assured that the life your food has led has been a wholesome, healthy and happy one. Soul Foods is the labour of love of Meg Garnham. Meg and her team create clean food. Food that has no colours, no chemicals and no GMO (genetically modified organism).
Manuka Biotic, Natural Wisdom for Therapeutic Benefits
Since I started researching about and using natural and organic beauty products a few years ago, I’ve come to a few conclusions. Making healthier decisions in any regard (eating healthier foods, exercising more or using natural products) is an ongoing process, and a necessary one. As a consumer, you have to make choices every day about what’s best for you and your family, and I believe that even the smallest trade-offs are worth it. I believe that natural beauty is part of being healthy.
10 Tips for Detoxing your Every Day
Toxins enter our worlds by what we eat, drink, breathe in, and process in any way. In fact a build-up of toxins can often be the underlying cause of disease. With all the hype about detoxes circulating today, it can be overwhelming to know how to detox the right way. So how do you minimise the toxins that come into your life, and maximise the toxins that go out?
Surviving the Silly Season
Christmas is not far away and I am starting to think about what I need to do to keep up with the party season. Below are some ideas of how you can not only survive the silly season but come out the other end with your health and well being intact!
6 Habits For Better Sleep
I can always tell when I've not been getting enough sleep. Apart from the obvious of feeling tired pretty much as soon as I wake up, I also feel like I'm hungover when I'm not (which is so not fair!), I get headaches, I'm over-emotional and I'm cranky.
In Need of a Digtial Detox?
I don't always have the healthiest relationship with technology. Endlessly scanning social media sites. Incessantly checking emails. Texting, calling, Face-timing. Using the laptop in bed. Constantly connected, and not on a personal level. Harvard Medical School scientists have found that switching off from technology every so often can offer a myriad of health benefits from physical to mental health. I decided to embark on a "digital detox" and exploring what else I could do if I 'powered down' for a day.
Fear, is it all in the Mind?
Frank Herbert sums up fear nicely in his quote: “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
6 Tips to D-Stress and Lose Weight
To be successful at weight loss and the prevention of weight gain, it is vital that you find ways to manage stress. Otherwise, you leave yourself open to some of the negative effects of stress. In my case, long-term stress led to a lowered immune system, which in turn made me susceptible to everything, including chronic fatigue syndrome.