Depending on where you live it is almost half term now. After the initial problems settling into a new class or school and a new teacher, how is your child getting on at school this term?

Homeopathy can be really helpful for children, not only helping a child’s physical symptoms - eczema, asthma, coughs and cold or warts, but also with sleep problems, moods and tantrums.
I am frequently consulted by parents who have concerns about their child’s behaviour or performance at school. The range of the problem can be from mild concentration problems and tantrums to a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder, hyperactivity, Asperger’s Syndrome or Autism.

There is no doubt that these diagnoses are becoming more prevalent with the numbers of children diagnosed with ADD and prescribed Ritalin increasing. In the UK the number of prescriptions is currently estimated to be 461,000 in England in 2007 (Times Online) for between 50,000-100,000 children.

There is much speculation as to the causes of these problems, which might include the pressures of modern schooling, an over stimulated society, diet and pollution, chemical imbalances and others.

Homeopathy can prove helpful in treating children suffering with these symptoms and it is able to treat the child as an individual taking into account their particular problems. A conventional diagnosis is not necessary before starting homeopathic treatment; as homeopaths treat individuals not labels. However, if your child is already talking a prescribed medication this can be continued alongside homeopathy.

As a Homeopath I value the input of other professionals such as teachers, psychologists and psychiatrists and they will often report improvement to the parents.

The initial case taking lasts over an hour and while not only asking in depth about the reasons that you have consulted me, I will also look at the child’s sleep patterns, their dreams and fears, how they feel about things, their friendships, their food likes and dislikes, their medical history, family medical history; in essence the child as a whole.

As Homeopathy treats the person as a whole there are often other benefits to treatment such as an increased sense of well-being and a reduced susceptibility to colds and other childhood infections.

References

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4813727.ece

If you would like to learn more about how homeopathy can help your child why not send for my free leaflet Homeopathy for Babies and Children.

There are also many excellent books available on the subject such as Ritalin Free Kids and Impossible Cure: the Promise of Homeopathy.

Have a great half term,

Mike

Consultations in London (Liverpool Street) and Warnham West Sussex

mike@westsussexhomeopathy.co.uk

www.westsussexhomeopathy.co.uk

This is really, really important.

Please bear with me if you feel I have written similar stuff before. We stand on the brink. The triple challenges of environment, economy and meaning are reaching their climax.

On one side lies another loop around the same fear/greed based cycle, on the other side lies progress to the next level and towards peace and sustainability.

The time that we make that choice is now.

Love is what works - love leads to healthy relationships, healthy solutions, healthy futures. You know this from your own experience, think of the relationships in your life that are energising and motivating - they are based in love. The more loving we can be the more energised and energising we are.

If enough of us can live with love in everything we do, virtually all of the challenges we face as a society will melt away.

Just think about that for a moment. If enough of us let go of our fears and are loving, with our family, with our colleagues, with our community, with our society with life on earth; poverty, war, exploitation, abuse and more will disappear.

We don’t need poverty, war, exploitation or abuse - they are choices we make, by accepting fear.

So in this moment of choice please choose love. If you are making someone redundant this week (or being made redundant) how can you do it with love?

If you need to deliver a challenging message to someone this week - how can you do it with love?

As we are loving, so we open up the opportunity for those around us to be loving too.

If you would like help in being more loving yourself or creating a more loving culture at your workplace lets have a chat. The choice is not just for your own happiness or the success of your organisation, but a vote for a more positive future for us all.

Take a look at my new Motivational Coaching web site at www.neilcrofts.com

With love

nx

Neil Crofts

Inspirer

authenticis

inspiration innovation motivation

+44 (0)7775 658534

neil@authenticis.com

www.authenticis.com
Authentic Transformation

Barri Can Massana 25
S’Arraco
Andratx, Mallorca
07159
ES

We all have the potential to be magnificent. We all have the opportunity to be brilliant.

It is only confusion that holds us back.

We have just finished running The PIE Retreat over the weekend, it was another fabulous experience. 15 of us secluded for three days in our mountain top monastery, focussing on clarity.

Clarity in how our bodies can release the tensions that we hold and how we can move from dis-ease to ease. Clarity around how we experience, interpret and respond to our emotions. Clarity of purpose and understanding in how we respond to the world around us.

A collective shedding of confusing and e big step towards inner peace and outer magnificence.

It is a choice that we are all making every day. Do we choose to play small or do we choose magnificence?

It is important, which you choose. Not just for you, but for us all.

We are at a point of inflection, a point of choice and it could easily go either way.

The triple challenges of economy, environment and the war for the ownership of meaning is reaching it’s climax.

We will choose to go either with fear or with love.

If, as a society, we choose to go with fear it is likely that things will become extremely uncomfortable for many of us, for a very long time. It may even be that we (humanity) do not get another chance to make the choice to go with love.

If we choose to go with love then the possibility of a sustainable, peaceful society is open to us.

This choice is not one made for us by politicians, business leaders, religious leaders or parents. It is our choice alone whether we choose to be loving in every thought and action, or whether we allow ourselves to be fearful in the way that we deal with ourselves and others.

To be with love is perhaps the most vital thing we can do. Today it is more vital than ever. Please take the bold step to learn to be with love in everything you do, because the moment that enough of us can be loving all conflict will cease.

PIE is not a therapeutic experience, it is a training camp for spiritual athletes. It is not about healing old wounds (although that does happen) it is about learning strategies and techniques for brilliance.

We don’t know, right now, where PIE is going or what it will be next. We are fairly sure that it will be available at David’s Onda Vital Centre in Palma Mallorca full time for those living in or visiting Mallorca.

We are considering other events and also ways to offer PIE remotely so that is accessible to all.

We believe that PIE can make an important contribution to the choice we are making as a society and would like to make it available to as many as possible.

We would love to have your ideas on how this might be accomplished or where we should be taking PIE. Please do send me your thoughts.

In the mean time if you would like help in training your own spiritual athlete - get in touch.

Please note that I have finally found some clarity in my own work and am separating my personal work from my corporate and organisational work.

Personal coaching will be via www.neilcrofts.com

Organisational training and executive coaching will be through www.authenticis.com.

This Monday e-mail will continue to combine both, because, in the end we are all just people.

With love

nx

neil@neilcrofts.com

www.neilcrofts.com

+44 (0)7775 658534

Many of us could be excused for feeling a little edgy right now.

But whatever is happening, there are always opportunities for the bold. We all have the choice - we can hide from the fear of what is happening, or we can step up and define the future.

A downturn is a great opportunity for authentic business. We are all looking for alternatives that we can believe in.

Number one - of course is to understand your life’s purpose or the core motivation of your business or organisation. With this you can identify the challenges facing society that you or your business care enough about to make a living by solving them. If you want some help you can use my free Life Purpose e-book - or give me a call.

Second look for the “pain” in the area of your purpose. Where are people, or is nature, uncomfortable and how can your passions and talents help to turn that pain into peace.

Third come up with your breakthrough idea for solving the problem and get started. Start on a small scale, build up interest and a following and then develop your plan to grow and evolve.

Lets look at some obvious areas of pain at the moment and the people who are offering innovative and, in some cases, authentic solutions:

Banking - businesses are struggling to find funding and at the same time savers are nervous about the security of their bank - it is time for Zopa. Zopa cleverly brings together consortia of savers and borrowers ensuring security and a good deal for both.

For a bit of fun - take a look at one of my ideas for banking innovation - banking with a flight simulator as a way of making banking more engaging and therefore easier to understand.

Transport/communication - spiraling fuel costs and environmental concerns mean that people are looking for cheaper and less polluting ways to travel and communicate.

Plug in Hybrids massively increase the effectiveness of hybrid cars, reducing emissions and fuel costs.

Truphone enables very low cost voice over IP (VoIP) phone calls from your mobile.

Zipcar is a cross between a car sharing scheme and low cost car hire that really works.

The Hub an innovative working environment increasing collaboration and reducing commuting.

Other obvious areas ripe for innovation are home energy generation, connecting suppliers with customers more directly (it has worked well for Google), long distance travel, localised food production, recycling and so on.

Now is the time to innovate and offer your solutions to the world, there are plenty of investors out there looking for somewhere safer and more responsible to put their money.

Let’s create something amazing.

with love

nx

Neil Crofts
Inspirer
authenticis
inspiration innovation motivation

+44 (0)7775 658534
neil@authenticis.com
www.authenticis.com

How many of your needs are met, right now. Think about it.

All of them? Some of them? Are you aware of all of your needs? Do you know what your needs are and which are most important?

Are you clear as to which order you need to sort them?

Are you forever “topping up” your needs or continuously “spinning plates”?

Last night I realised that I have been going through life without addressing various needs.

Abraham Maslow defined his “Hierarchy of Needs” and for the first time I considered that I haven’t been making sure that all my needs are met.

I had chosen to meet my needs from the most basic, physical needs first and then once they are sorted, move on to higher level needs. It doesn’t work like that though!

Life is moment by moment, by moment, by moment. It is in this moment where you and I can fulfil our needs. It is this moment that we can fulfil our need to give love, to gain stability, to increase our personal growth, to accept and to belong. We cannot plan this for next week or next month or even next year.

“Oh yeah, next year I plan to self actualise.” – It doesn’t work like that because the only moment is right now. If you set out, moment by moment to fulfil all your needs then you’ll be completely fulfilled, all the time! Amazing!

Humour me here … feel this moment. Go on … feeeeeeel it.

Delight in it … dance in it … embrace it … cuddle it … tickle it.

Isn’t that a wonderful feeling?

Every day we read more and hear more of the “Credit Crunch” and so forth. We read stories of predicted negative growth and no one knows when it may end.

It’s just a story. Tens of thousands of journalists are loving it, as it means we read and buy their papers and watch their daily news programmes.

So what happens to that story if we live “in this moment”, instead of thinking about their story; and choose to fulfil our needs and help others to fulfill their needs?

Well then we create a new story. A story that counteracts the “news”.

Come on Britain! Ignore the story. Enjoy this moment and delight in your very existence.

Warmest wishes,

Dan