This is a video from our Integrated Health conference we held at Jackie Hamilton’s school in May 2019. John Rhind, one of the school’s graduates from 2005 is showing us how to help our stress with a very simple hand reflexology ‘trick’

A simple hand massage you can do on yourself. Some ordinary hand cream, hand lotion, or a tiny drop of olive oil is all you need.

This could be part of a simple self care routine. Do this as often as you can. When you’re putting on your moisturiser, take a little extra time and access some acupressure points that are on your face and this may help to calm you. It can be done any time.

Facial Reflexology to help with constipation

Give yourself a neck and shoulder massage

A short video showing you how to work the hand reflex points, for The Respiratory System – which is effected by many disorders, such as Asthma, Bronchitis, COPD & Hay Fever, as well as those of us that may suffer from anxiety.

As I mention, if you have any undiagnosed pain, strain or injury, you should seek medical advice.

This short video from me, showing you how to work the main hand reflex points for boosting The Muscular/Skeletal System.

As I mention, if you have any undiagnosed pain, strain or injury, you should seek medical advice.

We can carry a lot of tension in our neck and shoulders – through poor posture at work, text neck and through stress (I often have to remind my self to drop the shoulders ) .

I’ve put together a simple set of stretches and self massage that you can do at home to release some of that tension

A short description of each of these remedies that I’m speaking about in the video. below

Hornbean: Monday morning feeling, mental fatigue (or morning after) Procrastination, the thought of doing something makes you feel tired.

Vervain: Tenseness, hyperanxiety, over-effort, stress, Tackles too many jobs at once,

Walnut: Assists in adjustment to transition or change. Menopause, going to a new school, moving house, growing older, puberty, problems around you.

See if you can match the 3 remedies listed above with the moods described below. You could also use the sheet provided (in the Facebook group TherapyAid – Your Health Matters) which carry a description of all of the 38 remedies.

Remedies:

1. Vervain

2 Hornbeam

3 Walnut

Moods

a. You wake up in the morning more tired than when you went to bed. Fortunately once you manage to drag yourself out of bed and get started you find your energy returns bit by bit.

b You’ve been told you need to take a holiday – but there’s so much still to do and with the election coming up and all those campaign letters to write you wont have any time to spare for a long time to come.

c You’ve just moved to a neighbourhood. You feel unsettled and out of place where you are now. Pick the remedy that goes with the description of how someone might be feeling. There are 38 remedies, and these are just 3 of them.

In my videos I will help you to choose the ones that are right for you and show you how to put them together. Link to the TherapyAid Self Care group:

I’d like to introduce you to the Bach flower Remedies. Many people have heard of Rescue Remedy (perhaps some of you have used it?) It is used by all sorts of people to cope with crises and everyday emergencies, going to the dentist, flying, exam nerves, giving talks!– they keep a little bottle like this in their bag or pocket and put four drops on the tongue when needed.

There are also 38 individual flower remedies that are part of the same system of medicine that treats the emotions rather than the physical problems. Dr Edward Bach discovered these remedies and was a well-known bacteriologist and homeopath with a successful Harley Street practice. His researches led to a series of oral vaccines that are still used to today..

His work was acclaimed but he wasn’t satisfied and wanted to replace the vaccines with plant material – he felt that you shouldn’t have to poison someone to make them better. He also saw that two people could be suffering from the same disease, one gets better and one doesn’t. Bach was more interested in the people suffering disease than in the diseases themselves – an idea than was unusual at that time (1928).

Well-balanced people got better physically because their bodies were quite literally free to heal themselves. Dr Bach believed that negative states were ultimately responsible for the disease and so treatment of the underlying cause was vital. Y

ou might wonder how something so simple can offer such remarkable benefits, but everything in nature has its own special part to play. There are a great many homeopathic, herbal and orthodox medicines derived from plants and the Bach Remedy flowers hold certain very special healing properties too. By concentrating on emotions, not just the diseases, the body has the best chance to right itself. B

y the time he died Dr Bach had discovered the 38 remedies that were needed to treat every possible emotional state. No scientific explanation of how or why these remedies worked was offered by Dr Bach. In fact he was wary of the ‘trends’ that science is prone to and encouraged other to keep his remedies free from science, free from theories.

The remedies themselves are simple in their preparation. The materials required are pure water, sunlight, fresh blossoms and a clean glass bowl. The purpose of the Bach Flower Remedies is to support the persons fight against illness by addressing the depression/anxiety/trauma/ fear and other emotional factor that are thought to impede physical healing.

They can also be used preventively, at times of anxiety and stress, – as you probably know stress causes all sorts of problems from migraine, eczema through to heart attacks and are particularly helpful for many people who feel generally tired and unwell without a specific medical diagnosis. The remedies, although powerful are 100%natural, safe and very gentle in restoring emotional balance. Safe for use during pregnancy with babies, children, animals, plants.

They don’t have side effects and can be used safely with other medication. You can’t overdose or become addicted to them. As I said there are 38 Bach flower remedies and each one of them is aimed at a different state of mind or emotion and as I said by concentrating on emotions, not just the diseases, the body has the best chance to right itself. Dr Bach worked in the first three decades of our century.

Today there are things in our lives that he knew nothing about such as AIDS, RSI, but the emotions these things provoke are no different from the emotions provoked in Dr Bach’s day. We may be scared of Aids, full of righteous indignation at the harm done to our plant and worried about RSI.

Dr Bach’s system is completed because it treats emotions and not triggers that cause them. It is not just for today yesterday or tomorrow but for all time.