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13 Dec

Adrenal Fatigue and your Lifestyle

Nowadays we appear to have less time to fit everything in to our day or week. We can find ourselves running around like headless chickens! In today’s blog I am going to discuss Adrenal Fatigue and how common it really is. Adrenal fatigue is a collection of symptoms classed as a syndrome. Conventional medicine doesn’t recognise Adrenal fatigue as a condition. But eventually they will start to take note because this collection of symptoms are presenting themselves more and more [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog adrenal fatigue, anxiety, health and wellness, healthy diet, junk food, mindfulness, mindset, reduce pain, somatics, stress, total somatics 2 Comments Read more...

27 Sep

Do you REACT or RESPOND to stressful situations?

SOMATIC IN SEPTEMBER WEEK 4 Do you REACT or RESPOND to stressful situations? We know from the Total Somatics online programs at www.TotalSomatics.com that our mindset plays a huge role in our physical health. Check out my introductory video below and then let me develop this subject further. Reacting or responding to life events are very different. Let me explain some basic neurophysiology as to what happens when we react or respond to a situation. The Brainstem and Limbic System are two areas of [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog anxiety, depression, limbic system, react or respond, somatic september, stress 0 Comments Read more...

31 May

Stop and smell the roses!

In line with this week’s Total Somatics’ Facebook video series ‘Mindful in May’ we are going to discuss how we can slow down and enjoy life; becoming mindful and savouring our surroundings. Your mind is absolutely amazing because it consists of conscious and unconscious mental activities and processes. You can reason, think, understand, judge, analyse, empathise, sympathise and imagine/visualise. We all have willpower (although that often needs working on!!), we can create intention, make choices and decide on an action. [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog anxiety, breath, breathe, develop mindfulness, mindful, nature, neuroplasticity, slow down 0 Comments Read more...

24 May

Increasing our Somatic awareness to the brain and gut connection

In this week’s video of Total Somatics: ‘Mindful in May’ released on Monday 22nd May on the Total Somatics Facebook page (available on You Tube after May 2017) we considered applying mindfulness to our eating habits. In today’s blog we are going to delve deeper and increase our somatic awareness to just how important the brain and gut connection truly is. Your gut is an amazing part of your body because it is known as ‘the second brain’ due to [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog anxiety, brain, digestion, digetive system, flora, gut, microbiome, mindful eating 0 Comments Read more...

03 May

Can your emotions shape who you are?

In this article we are going to explore the relationship between Emotion, Mindfulness and Somatic awareness. It is a question that many people have wondered over the years. With modern scientific research and state of the art machinery, we are able to understand the complexity of the human body and brain to a greater degree than ever before. It is a very exciting time to be alive, watching the field of neuroscience in particular mushroom with evidence. Considering we have all [...]

By Heidi Hadley Blog anxiety, brain function, emotions, mindful, mindful in may, mindfulness, nervous system, soma, stress, worries 0 Comments Read more...