Christiane Ley
homeopathy and natural self-care
…finding your path to intrinsic health
Fasting challenge into 2019, overview for the week 20 -27th January
Day 1 : 16/8 fasting over 24 hours We will stop eating on Sunday 20 January between 6 and 8 pm for 16 hours. Most of this time we’re asleep, which eases you into the challenge! Fasting intermittently on a 16 hour basis means that in this mode we do not eat or take in...
Fasting challenge into 2019
This is an introduction to fasting on seven consecutive days. You will be introduced to different styles of fasting. From Sunday to Tuesday we will explore the 16/8 fasting method: 16/8 fasting means eating within a window of eight hours each day (such as from 12pm to...
Homeopathy – what is it?
‘Homeopathy and its view of the world are diametrically opposite to the conventional medical system and its outlook. It delivers the spiritual and mental basis for a truly alternative medicine. The aim of homeopathy is not to fight the symptom by the use of the...
Meditation – a hygiene process for our psychology?
Sitting in stillness, listening in to yourself is a practice that gives you a better chance to maintain your inner balance. When I firstly started to do this I felt such an inner restlessness and resistance, - I was on the verge to say many times ‘Oh, that’s really...
Homeopathy – an answer to the critics
When I was in my mid twenties I made close friends with an anthroposophical doctor and his wife and this totally changed the way I thought about health and also disease. Anthroposophs use homeopathy as one of their main sources of medicine and view illness not as an...
Resistance and why it can be a gift to us
We are living in a world of polarities. There is no cold without heat and no dark without light. If we feel a strong resistance to something or somebody we usually don’t like that feeling at all. Yet this feeling can be the key to some valuable insights into our...
How the language of our symptoms can inform us
The answer to all our questions and problems lies within ourselves. This is my personal view and also the viewpoint of most holistic therapies. Every symptom, every form of dis-ease we experience or problem we ever had, is an attempt of our organism to establish...
You can do without! – fasting and the healing power of renunciation
Not eating is a very potent form of medicine. Recent studies underline the positive influences traditional fasting has on our body and psyche. It helps with stress reduction, high blood pressure, diabetes and many other chronic or even acute conditions. Weight loss...
A little review of some fasting methods
After the festive period you may feel like giving your body a break and going on a little tour of regeneration or even a gentle de-tox. Here a few examples of some more recent forms of fasting and also an all time classic, which is my favourite. There is ‘intermittent...