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Excuse the ridiculous pun, but it really does. It opens the door to possibility and insight.
Possibility that difficulty could become eased. In my experience it has a sort of domino effect; once you have learnt about HANDLE, you view the world differently.
Let me explain.
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HANDLE seeks to understand why the body is doing something, and how to take the pressure off. Isn’t that after all what every one seeks on a mental, emotional and physical level?
How beautiful.
HANDLE is quite profound. It appears simple, but the approach is life changing.
Read MoreThe greatest gift we can give ourselves and those around us is to be present and to connect.
Read MoreHere is an activity for you to feel the value of slow in your life. It only takes 5-10 minutes, doing something you would already be doing anyway.
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'Busy' seems to be our default setting these days. Even when we are lucky enough to have time to go on holiday.
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The days are shorter, the schools are closing and the year is ending. It feels really poignant and joyous to me that it is at the darkest point of the year that we choose to celebrate each other and the light which though now is in short supply, we can trust will soon return.
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Columbia University Medical Center has just published some interesting research. Dr Tang looked at 46 children's brains and found that whilst the number of synapses in an non autistic child's brain decreased by about half by adolescence they decreased by only 16% in the brains of a person with autism.
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Honey bees have an important role in our wellbeing. They are responsible for 80% of pollination and 90% of the world's nutrition. Their waggle dance is the most complex form of communication after ours on the planet. And in the most beautiful collaborative choreography they create honey to feed their young and then the whole hive through the winter.
Read MoreI want to share a few lessons that I/we have made over the past years by working with the Son-rise programme and a method called HANDLE, as well as with my own development as a parent/human.
Read MoreHis mother is so proud of him she wanted to share them. I think the pictures show us not only how much easier it is now for Alex to hold and use a pencil but also something about his relationship to his body and his world.
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