After being diagnosed with malignant melanoma, the author made adequate preparation for his own ante-thanatos care.

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#dying mattersweek #death #preparation #dying #holistic #holistic health #holistic healthcare

The author became interested in end-of-life experiences after one of his own patients described a ‘classic’ near-death experience (NDE).

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#dying mattersweek #dying #death #holistic #holistic healthcare

Natural death and dying appears to have been lost to the interventionist experts.
We have become unskilled at being round death, which is after all a natural process.
Change, however, is being pioneered.

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#dying mattersweek #dying #death

A genuine community home for elders should not be apart from the community it serves.

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#community #home #eldercare #relationships #individuality #holistic #holistic health #holistic healthcare #BritishHolisticMedicineandHealthCare

Historically pilgrims would have made the long walk to Santiago de Compostela for religious reasons, but nowadays most people say they do it to get away from the everydayness of their lives..

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#pilgrimage #walking #clarity #holistic

The patient’s story and best course of care are more likely to emerge when both parties share their humanity.

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#doctorpatient #patientcentred #holistic #holistic health #holistic healthcare #BritishHolisticMedicineandHealthCare

Fasting has been used for therapeutic religious and spiritual purposes since the dawn of civilisation, and probably from earlier times.

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#fasting #insulinsensitivity #timerestrictedfeeding #intermittentfasting #holistic #holistic health

My local parkrun has, quite simply, changed my life. The truly amazing and inspirational people I’ve met have transformed both my clinical practice as a GP and me as a human being.

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Thank you Simon Tobin for this article

#OnYourFeetBritain #parkrun

The evolutionary health messages are clear: walk more and drive less, get together with others ideally in nature (and on nature’s behalf ), eat real food, not too much and mostly plants.

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#earthday #health #nature #holistic #holistic health

Kilsby Student Essay Competition is open! This is open to all healthcare and medical students.

For more information visit our essay page
🔗bhma.org/participate/st…

#essay competition #healthcarestudents #nursingstudents #medstudents #studentcompetition #essay #creativewriting

Modern medicine aims to combat morbidity and mortality.

Ayurveda prefers an individualised, affirmatory process of self-activation.

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Thanks to Thuli Whitehouse for this article

#goodhealth #Ayurveda #holistic #holistic health #holistic healthcare

Most people know about fractals; even if they don’t know how they come about, they perceive there is something special about them.

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#fractals #geometry #naturetherapy #therapeutic #holistic #holistic health #holistic healthcare

The Collaborative Health Community invites you to the International Food Addiction Consensus Conference.

Click the link below for more information:
🔗 the-chc.org/fas/conference

#IFACC2024 #food #food addiction

I wrote this 35 years ago.

I was working in a very different culture of general practice: its systems and technology were relatively primitive, but the opportunity for psychological sophistication was often much greater.

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#placebo #holistic

A Sussex GP explains how using a health coaching approach can better equip family doctors to enable behaviour changes in relation to eating, moving, breathing and loving.

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#selfcare #primarycare #healing #holistic #holistic health

David Zigmond sets out to help us reshape the idea that psychosomatic illness is caused by the mind and its conflicts and to remind us that all forms of suffering and every recovery involve the mind and the body.

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#holistic #holistic health

In GP consultations about lifestyle change patients set good intentions (eg to take a morning walk) but they rarely translate into sustained actions for changes.

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#selfempowerment #stickers #lifestyle #holistic #holistic health

Our annual student #essay competition is now open.

DEADLINE in on JUNE 30th

For more information visit our essay page
🔗bhma.org/participate/st…

#essay competition #medicalstudents #healthcarestudents #nursingstudents #medstudents #studentcompetition #essay #creativewriting

Immerse yourself in a transformative experience at The Master Series Oxford 2024, the foremost conference on trauma and mental health in Europe.

Check the event here
🔗bhma.org/event/the-mast…

BHMA members get 15% discount on the event.

Join us now!

Play is done for its own sake.

It’s voluntary, pleasurable, offers a sense of engagement and takes us out of time because the act itself is more important than the outcome.

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#stressawarenessmonth #play #selfcare #mentalhealth #holistichealth