The Art of Healing

The Art of Healing supports a holistic approach to wellness with a focus on the individual, and provides solutions that assists readers to lead a more responsible, conscious, and mindful life. Our aim is to deliver reliable information on how to attain and sustain optimal wellness, using the most natural means possible incorporating the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social and environmental aspects of wellbeing.

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The Art of Healing

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Long Road Ahead in Minimising Opioid-Related Harm

Research Reveals Australia is One Big NIGGLE NATION

Medicine Hat Closes In on Functional Zero CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS

CLIMATE Changes Faster Than Animals Adapt

BLUEBERRIES Linked to Blood Pressure, Memory and Anti-Ageing Benefits

ART Provides a Window of Relief for Stressed Workers

DIETARY CHOLINE Associated with Reduced Risk of Dementia

LOWER BACK PAIN? Self-Administered Acupressure Could Help

SEA SNAIL Compound Reduces Cancer Risk

How to Beat Stereotypes by Seeing People as Individuals

Is YOGA Good For Any Body?

ABOUT YOGA THERAPY

healing profile

THE 3 RD WAVE RECREATIONAL DRUG EPIDEMIC • Fentanyl is one of a crop of new drugs called novel psychoactive substances (NPS). NPS are synthetic, and intended to mimic the effects of traditional drugs. They are made in laboratories and often sold over the Dark Web using Bitcoin in anonymous transactions where the drugs are delivered directly to the customer’s door. In the recreational drug setting, NPS are replacing traditional drugs like marijuana, cocaine, LSD, and ecstasy. In America they are also killing more people annually than any drug in history, as well as growing numbers in Canada, Europe, the U.K., Australia, and beyond. In this interview we talk to Ben Westhoff, author of Fentanyl, Inc., who spent four years investigating the use and production of fentanyl and other drugs.

PSYCHEDELICS • Recent research has shown that psychedelics, used in a therapeutic setting, in combination with psychotherapy, can reduce suicidality, ease end-of-life anxiety, and offer a road out of both depression and addiction - all with as few as one or two doses. This is in striking contrast to traditional pharmacotherapy, which usually requires daily dosing of a pharmaceutical medication such as an antidepressant or anxiolytic for extended periods. However despite the growing recognition of psychedelic medicines in science, their broader acceptance has been limited by cultural misconceptions. Awareness, education and better therapeutic solutions are required if we are to alleviate both the suffering of individuals and the burden of mental health disease on society.

MDMA

PSILOCYBIN • Psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychoactive mushrooms, has provided the spiritual and cultural bedrock of many great civilisations. The Aztecs referred to it as teonanácatl, which translates as ‘divine mushroom.’ Modern neuroscience has revealed how psilocybin interacts with serotonin receptors in the brain in order to produce a range of consciousness-altering effects.

BODY PAINTING • In January 2019 the first EQUATORIAL GUINEA BODY PAINTING FESTIVAL was launched and showed how a small seed born of PASSION, ended up becoming a MOVEMENT that INSPIRES people to discover their talents. In less than 2 months since its launch, the festival reached more than 60,000 people around the world. The second festival is being held in January 2020.

Functional Pathology in Australia

THE HARDEST THING

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REVIEWS

on addiction

THE RAT PARK THEORY ON ADDICTION