Exhale nice and slowly without any force. Take one cycle of regular breathing (in and out). Repeat ten times. I do this every morning a few moments after waking to start the day. Most days I practise for five minutes, which sounds short but is deceptively challenging when you’re new to the practise.

People pleasing. Once you meet the demand, the stress is (temporarily) gone. Anger or rage. If you can discharge the emotion onto someone else, you’ve released it.

Today, with consistent practise, I am

same imprinting happens when our parent-figures are overly fixated on how they look, modelling behaviours such as obsessive dieting, paying extreme attention to grooming, or excessive exercising.

It’s no exaggeration to say that every client who arrives at my office experiencing psychological symptoms also suffers from underlying physical health issues. Unresolved trauma weaves itself into the very fabric of our being.

Difficulty performing higher-functioning cognitive tasks, such as planning for the future

Studies have shown that intermittent fasting increases mental acuity, learning, and alertness53 (but I will warn you, other studies have also shown increases in irritability,54 especially in the beginning, before your body gets used to it).

Egocentrism in childhood is a developmental stage in which there’s an inability to understand the difference between the self

I truly believed that I was an unemotional person, that being unaffected was a part of my core being.