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How To Tap into Our Senses for a Feel Good Home
We all know about our five senses, but we might not realize that everything we see, hear, touch, taste and smell influences both our emotions and our experience of wellbeing in our homes. -
Top Ten Uses for BORAX
You might never have thought about having a box of borax in your home but perhaps it is time to think again because this natural and even old-fashioned home help has so much to offer.
With a history going back some one hundred years, borax is a 100% naturally occuring mineral. It is formed by the seasonal evaporation of salt lakes. Borax is made up of boron, sodium, water and oxygen.
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Trees Provide So Many Benefits Including Helping to Reduce Risk of Dementia
We have written before about the wonders of trees in particular and nature in general but now new research is pointing to an additional benefit, telling us that living near trees may help reduce the risk of dementia. Find out more... -
These Sleep Disorders Can Occur with Aging
There are so many reasons why we all need a good night's sleep - whatever our age.
However, in older adults, ongoing sleep disorders can lead to much bigger problems such as irritability, low energy and an increased risk of falling...
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Is This New Way to De-Clutter a Useful Tool?
We are frequently urged to de-clutter with a variety of suggestions but now a new technique known as Swedish Death Cleaning is gaining popularity, helping you to look at your stuff and declutter.
It could just give you that added impetus to go for "less stuff, more happiness".
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Don't Let your Brain Just Drain Away
Do you spend a lot of time in front of a screen, keeping up with your workload?
Do you feel totally exhausted by the end of your working day?
Does this mean that you feel you should do nothing more after work except curl up on the sofa before you go to bed?
Answering "yes" to these questions could mean that "brain drain" is slowing you down and leading to fatigue.
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How Soundly You Sleep Could Lower Your Stroke Risk
A recent study has come to the conclusion that those people who enjoy a good night's sleep are less likely to suffer from a stroke.
They researchers point out that the worrying factor is that some nine out of ten people do not usually get such a good night's sleep.
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Fruit and Vegetables Don't Have to be the Perfect Shape
With food shortages and an increasing cost of living crisis hitting many parts of the world, it becomes more important than ever that every bit of food is put to good use. -
Top Tips to Help you Become a Cat Whisperer!
If you have a cat as a pet, you will be familiar with a lot of their habits - but you might not know what is behind their actions.
Some can be really strange!
Others may just make PURRfect sense!
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Is it Time for more Thyme in your Life?
Everyone should have some thyme growing in their garden - one of the easiest of plants to grow and it keeps on giving back to you with its herbal fragrance and so many other benefits and uses. -
Top Ten Tips on How to Brighten Your Day!
With so many concerns in our everyday world today, we have to find ways to bring more joy and happiness in our lives.
Find out more about how you can do this with our top ten tips!
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Nature and the Link with Reducing Risk of Dementia
We constantly read about the importance of being out in nature for our wellbeing.
Now a new benefit is being written about - namely that living near or among trees and grass has such a rejuvenating effect that it can delay that mental decline that can occur in middle age and potentially reduce the risk of dementia in later life.
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