23 Nov 2022: Connect To Your Calm: The Body Is The Barometer Of The Soul Stress levels are at an all-time high! Fortunately there are many practical ways to learn how to relax and unwind. Dr Arien van der Merwe is a medical doctor, author and soul-mind-body specialist, holistic health councillor and coach, specialising in read more...
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7 Oct 2022: Connect To Your Calm, Online Holistic Healing Experience Stress levels are at an all-time high! Fortunately there are many practical ways to learn how to relax and unwind. Dr Arien van der Merwe is a medical doctor, author and soul-mind-body specialist, holistic health councillor and coach, specialising in practical stress management and read more...
Stress Less Toolkit STRESS is all around us (e.g. life-, work-, financial-, emotional- & relationship stress). It affects all aspects of our lives and wellness (physical-, emotional-, intellectual-, spiritual-, environmental-, financial-, occupational- and social wellness). High stress also affects our weight, sleep, quality of life, energy and basically everything. The good news: you can learn to manage read more...
Mental Health in a Changing Uncertain World How an inner default mode of bias towards survival fear drives our stress reaction Stress is insidious and as survival tool for fight, flight or freeze, it has an impact on every one of the 50 trillion cells in our bodies. This reaction is essential to avoid read more…
Immune Support & Stress Tips through Challenging Times Written by Dr Arien van der Merwe & Anri van Rooyen This Immune System and Stress Support Tips are meant as a tool to use frequently: Follow us on Facebook to get all the frequent tips. 1. Spend time outside: What a beautiful day in Hermanus! Best read more…
Tips to Relax During & After the Holidays Written by Dr Arien van der Merwe MBChB NHA ASCHP MISMA This time of year comes with mixed feelings, whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Kwanza, Chanukah, Kwanza, the Summer or Winter Solstice, a family holiday, or simply the end of another calendar year, looking forward to a well-deserved read more…
Tips to Relax & Unwind Body, Mind and Soul During The Holidays and Thereafter Why do we often feel tired, pressured and even exhausted after a wonderful holiday? You simply don’t have the energy to go back to work and you don’t even want to start thinking about the next 12 months! A lot of people feel read more…
Women and Stress Women experience and react to stress differently than men do, with very specific stress related health challenges Both men and women experience stress with its related health problems and risk implications. Most, if not all illnesses and ailments have an underlying current of long term stress at the source. Click here for read more…
Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The Stress Connection Written by Dr Arien van der Merwe MBChB FRSPH MISMA NHA Medical doctor, Author, Medical Specialist: Health & Wellbeing The connection between stress and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) The exact cause of IBS remains uncertain, but the following trends that might help people make sense in finding possible read more…
Health Awareness The Importance of Health Screenings Health screenings can identify and assess the following health risks: diabetes, metabolic syndrome, high cholesterol, overweight and obesity, osteoarthritis, cancer, heart disease, chronic inflammation, depression, etc. Dr Arien herself is an example of why regular health screenings are so important. A very unpleasant surprise awaited her when she did read more…
Inflammation: Both friend and foe Click here to read Dr Arien’s article in Destiny Magazine As foe, the common denominator present in all chronic degenerative diseases The word ‘Inflammation’ comes from the Latin word ‘inflamatio’, which means to inflame, to set on fire. Chronic inflammation is the fuel that flames the fire of today’s chronic read more…
Stress less holiday tips Try to eat healthy on your holiday, lots of fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, smoothies, fresh water and herbal teas to drink. Most people stop taking their supplements during the holidays when you should continue your normal ritual. Eat a balanced diet and stick to your exercise program adapted to the holidays: read more…
Meditation Learn to Meditate: A life skill that will improve your health and happiness, while ensuring an optimal sense of wellbeing Would you prefer a calmer, more peaceful life, managing the daily stress triggers with equanimity, as a human being (vs. a human doing!) from the still centre of a quiet mind? Learn to meditate, read more…
The Importance of Sleep Sleep restoration and rest More people now actively attend to nutrition & exercise to promote good health, but fail to recognise the importance of sleep. Sleep is the foundation for optimal alertness & performance. Sleep is critical to health, wellness & longevity and a vital physical need. One of the most read more…
Mind Solutions for Sustainable Weight Release The Mind Solutions Course is about identifying the deeper mental-emotional, subconscious saboteurs that thwart your best efforts at releasing weight permanently. We look at food addictions, emotional reasons for eating, toxic food and relationships, trapped negative emotions that lead to overeating, stressful situations, how to reprogram all these read more…
Health & Happiness (Fox & Raven Publishing): Interview with Dr Arien Today we have a chat with Dr Arien van der Merwe, author of the best-selling Health & Happiness, now available as an ebook from yours truly. So let’s not waste any time, and get to it! Tell us a bit about yourself – how read more…
Antioxidants: Dr Arien’s Heart Brain Body Support & Antioxidant (excerpt from my book ‘Health & Happiness’, revised edition 2013, available from the Health Shop) An antioxidant is exactly what is says: against oxygen. Every living thing needs oxygen. But certain kinds of oxygen can be dangerous and detrimental to our health.During all the metabolic read more…
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