Using a variety of tools, Wendie Patrick - Light Therapy Practitioner and Animal Communicator - works with pets and their people to improve health and wellbeing. In this episode, she speaks with us about the potential of light therapy, various tools used in her practice and how we might further educate ourselves on the subject of photobiomodulation. 🔹 Catherine Skye Knott 🔗 https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/  🅝🅣&🅑 🎶 Instrumental "Fast Pop" by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue) 🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know. Episode Notes: 🔗 Link to PTI: https://dr336.isrefer.com/go/PTI/a434/ 🔗Wendie Patrick I.C.M.G., C.C.M.S., CLT-U. Creator of  "Finnessiam"  & "Sealy & Spoo" brands. Canada's Official Distributor for Pure Paws & Hemastop. For more information on Wendie's services: www.finnessiamhealth.com" Host of Quantumly Yours Podcast : https://open.spotify.com/show/2Yp6q8WVtJQiNtLHXLTzKb?si=xJg00mvxTDuMIY3zFKqy6g Owner of "For Pets & Their People" boutique and clinic, in downtown Kentville N.S. 902 298 0999 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dogs-of-Pride/243410538801 For more information on Wendie's services or to book a remote or in person appointment, goto www.finnessiamhealth.com"

"Natural Conduits"   Marian Ryan is a Holistic and Intuitive Therapist, Crystal Healing Specialist and Author.    Located in Surrey, England - Marian assists individuals working through all manner of life's journeys.    As part of her practice, she utilizes earthen tools such as Crystals, Natural Energy, Energetic Grids and Dowsing Rods, in conjunction with Intuitive Awareness. Marvoulous methods for diagnosing personal energy fields, assessing emotional state and releasing grief or trauma from not only the base level; but back through previous generations.   Marian chats with NT&B about energetic health and energy facilitated healing through crystal therapy. An understanding of energetic managment and its connection with intuitive awareness and Intuitive Therapy.  A conversation about the current energy of the world, about crystals and healing - stemming from her experiences and observations as an Intuitive Therapist.      🔹 Episode Notes:     🔹Marian Ryan Website 🔗https://marianryan.co.uk/     🔹 Catherine Skye Knott 🔗 https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/     📚 Literary Links:   🔗 https://youtu.be/PswRQ8iGcgg     🔗https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cleaning-Your-Mental-Mess-Scientifically/dp/0801093457     🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=997Y9uMgIlo&ab_channel=Mark%27sDailyApple     🔗https://www.amazon.co.uk/Biology-Belief-Unleashing-Consciousness-Miracles/dp/1781805474/ref=asc_df_1781805474/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310867999190&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14603647476341739080&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007246&hvtargid=pla-645450507272&psc=1&th=1&psc=1  🔗https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-Answer-Book-Quantum-Explains/dp/1571747621   🎶 Instrumentals "Clouds at the Gap" and "The Rampart" by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).     🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know

"By The Light of the Moon"     

The Effects of Lunar Cycles on our Wellbeing.   

The Physical and Philosophical Relationship between humans, plants and animals and the draw of the Moon 🌒   

Based on a collection of clinical studies and literary material. 

🔹 Episode Notes:  Websites      

🔹🔗https://www.healthline.com/health/full-moon-effects      

🔹🔗https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1316181/      

🔹🔗 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16407788/     

🔹🔗 Farmer’s Almanac: https://www.farmersalmanac.com/7-ways-moon-affects-health-26747   

🔹📚 "Be Guided by The Moon: How to Heal in Order to Manifest the Life You Deserve" Author: Marian Ryan  

🔹🔗 Article Author - Catherine Skye Knott: https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/2021/05/24/the-effects-of-the-moon-drawing-closer-to-the-earth/   

🎶 Instrumental "Arizona Moon" by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).         

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"Life, Health and the Power of Attraction"   Magnets ~ Opposites and their uncontrollable inclination to find one another. A cosmic pull that exists all round us — an unseen, yet completely undeniable force.  These forces that propel us, are often mirrored in the composition of our therapeutic treatments. What drives us from within has also been shown to heal us.  This Philosophy is illustrated by the potential curative power of Magnet Therapy.  There is something about the energies of the diametrically opposed that can often create a healing balance.....  The Therapeutic Potential of Magnets on our health, as based on a compelation of clinical studies and reference material.   Drawing a correlation between attraction in the polarization of opposites - how this relates to nature, life and our health.    🔔 It is not advised to wear magnets if you are pregnant, have a pacemaker, or epilepsy. Use care with children and over the eyes or brain. Get the opinion of a professional you trust when taking care of, and changing, your health regime.    🔹 Episode Notes🔹  Cited Resources:  * “Natural Healing Wisdom & Know-How” Compiled by Amy Rost  * Clinical effectiveness of magnetic field therapy 🔗:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10897384/    * “The Effectiveness of Magnet Therapy for Treatment of Wrist Pain Attributed to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome”    🔎 My Article on Magnetic Therapy 🔗https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/magnet-therapy-an-ancient-attraction/   🎶 Instrumental "Grumpalo" by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).      🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know

"Good Vibrations"  

A Comedian might be considered a Magician of Laughter.

When he stands before a crowd and begins to weave his spell — he has the entire audience in the palm of his hand. 

Wizardry of this nature has not gone unnoticed and laughter is now recognized as a cognitive-behavioural therapy. It has been shown to improve our physical, psychological, and social health —  ultimately benefiting our quality of life.

A commentary, based on a collection of clinical trials and published studies.

🔹Episode Notes 🔹   

🔹Cited Works 🔗:

* 'Effects of laughter therapy on quality of life in patients with cancer': https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6597115/ 

* 'Therapeutic Benefits of Laughter in Mental Health: A Theoretical Review': https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/tjem/239/3/239_243/_article/-char/ja/ 

* Mayo Clinic Healthy 'Lifestyle (Stress management)': https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/stress-relief/art-20044456 

🔹Catherine Skye Knott : Article Version of this Episode 🔗https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/laughter-therapy-come-as-you-are/     

🎶 Instrumental "Floating Whistle" by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).  

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"The Benefits of Juggling • A Mind and Body Therapy"  With pizzazz and charm the juggler preforms great feats, suspending time and space for the audience. Much to their fascination and delight, he commands gravity to defy reality.    For the onlooker, it’s a great spectacle, a display of agility and skill. But in the brain of the juggler — something quite miraculous is occurring.    A look at the Thereputic Potential of Juggling. How it can effect our State of Mind, Physicality and the Neuroplasticity of our Brain.    🔹 Episode Notes 🔹     Reading Material 📚     🔗https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2009-10-12-juggling-enhances-connections-brain  🔗https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/jugg.html   Science Direct 📚 : 🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432817303613?casa_token=eo1w75WABIgAAAAA:jvmaXYu7KgU6Rc3ah6-HyMv65RV3XCiiEeAzMA94cQPVy00o9Ve1of-_YmPedecN2TsaRa2Py6Tk      🔎 For my Complete Article on This Topic: Link to the website 🔗   https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/the-anatomy-of-juggling-kaleidoscope-mind/  🎶 Instrumental by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).  🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know!

"How the Elements Affect our State of Mind" A Commentary on the relationship between the four elements and our mental and emotional wellbeing.      How the elements relate to Holistic Therapies and the manner in which these therapies mimic the essence of the Natural World.   Inspired by a theoretical study observed in Frontiers in Psychiatry.       🔹 Episode Notes 🔹        Reading Material 📚:  US National Library of Medicine 'Frontiers in Psychiatry' - National Institute of Health 🔗  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6491965/        🔹🔎 For my Published Article, inspired by this Study: Link to the website Catherine Skye Knott 🔗  https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/2021/04/14/commentary-elemental-health-earth-air-fire-and-water/    🎶 Instrumental by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).   🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know!

"Birdwatching and Mental Health"   

A Short Commentary Based on a Study by the The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research: "Biodiversity is Related to Mental Health".   

The correlation between species diversity in birds and plants and our Mental Wellness.   

The value of "Green Spaces' in urban and populated areas.  

🔹 Episode Notes 🔹  

🔎 For my Complete Article, based on this Study: Link to the website 🔗https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/avian-diversity-happiness-this-ones-for-the-birds/   

📚 Reading Material: The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research 🔗 https://www.idiv.de/en/news/news_single_view/1923.html   

EcoWatch 🔗 https://www.ecowatch.com/birds-happiness-study-2649413979.html   

Science Daily 🔗 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201204110246.htm   

🎶 Instrumental by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). 

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"The Potential of a Well-Timed Nap"    A Light Look at Afternoon Napping and Cognitive Function. This Short Feature was inspired by a recent Clinical Study (Mental Function in an Aging Chinese Population).  Compiled alongside various Naturopathic Notes - pertaining to Sleep and Mental Agility.   Based on my published article, of the same name.   🔹Episode Notes 🔹 :      Reading Material :    📚 General Psychology Clinical Study "The Relationship Between Afternoon Napping & Cognitive Function" https://gpsych.bmj.com/content/34/1/e100361     📚 "Naturopathic Doctors & Sleep Problems" : https://naturemed.org/faq/how-do-naturopathic-doctors-treat-insomnia-and-other-sleep-problems/     🔹Catherine Skye Knott 🔎🔗 (See my website for the complete "Afternoon Naps & Cognitive Zen" Article): https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/a-commentary-afternoon-naps-cognitive-zen/     🎶 Instrumental by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).  🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know!

"Water as a Psychological Mirror"   

Hydrotherapy is any treatment that uses water for therapeutic purposes — there are variations on this form of healing.  Whether we take a meditative trip to the beach, or pay a visit to the floatation tank — to relax tight muscles and submerse ourselves in soothing mineral salts. 

Dan Erikson is a PhD, President of the Water Calming® Institute, in Minnesota, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Stress. His approach to using water as a therapeutic tool, draws upon our harmonious, pre-existing relationship with water. Emphasizing it’s natural cycles in relation to human perceptions of sensation and emotion.   

With Water Calming® Therapy, Dan and his team, support individuals working through anxiety, trauma, grief and other personal challenges. Focusing on the cognitive, emotional and spiritual aspects of the self and the manner in which this part of us naturally integrates with water’s healing properties.   

🔹Episode Notes 🔹  

🔹Water Calming® Institute 🔗https://www.watercalming.org/     

🔹Catherine Skye Knott : https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/    

🎶 Instrumental "Lo Margin" by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).   

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"Mediumship Therapy"      Speaking with Shawn Leonard. He is a Medium & Host of the TV Series 'Spirit Talker', on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN).     He is also the Author of 'The Language of Spirit'.      In this episode of 🅝🅣and🅑, Shawn and I discuss the potentials of Mediumship as a therapeutic tool. He shares his experiences using this field of healing to benefit individuals who are transitioning through grief, loss and looking for purpose in life.      We touch on the benefits of meditation and learning our unique language of intuition. The power of our connection to our own personal nature and that of the environment around us.     🔹Episode Notes  :      🔹 Shawn Leonard 🔗 https://shawn-leonard.com/     📺 'Spirit Talker' 🔗 https://www.spirittalker.tv/      🔹Catherine Skye Knott 🔗 : https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/   🔎  Additional Published Version of my Interview with Shawn Leonard - My Natural Health Column with Advocate Media 'Holistic Health':  🔗  Link :   https://pictouadvocate.com/2018/12/28/grief-and-mediumship-therapy/   📚 Reading Material: "The Language of Spirit" by Aboriginal Medium Shawn Leonard      🎶 Instrumental by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).      🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know!

"A Study in Tai Chi"    In Nova Scotia, Canada we meet with Michelle Greenwell. Tai Chi Instructor, Body Movement Specialist, Dancer and the Author of My Little Black Book of Qi: Qi YINtegration Set 1.    Michelle works with a broad spectrum of Energetic Movement. Various forms of Traditional Tai Chi, as well as specific modifications she has made to certain Yang movements - Designed to suit the diverse health and wellness needs of her students.     🔹Episode Notes  :  🔹 Michelle Greenwell : http://www.dancedebut.com/my-little-black-book-of-qi-qi-yintegration-set-1-2/    🔹Catherine Skye Knott : https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/    📚 Reading Material: "My Little Black Book of Qi: Qi YINtegration Set 1" by Michelle Greenwell    📚 Tai Chi Master Moy Lin-Shin: https://www.moytaichi.org/taichi    📚 Gerda Geddes: https://taiji-forum.com/tai-chi-taiji/tai-chi-interviews/gerda-geddes/    🎶 Instrumental by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). 🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know!

 • Springing into Season 𝟑 •  🅝🅣and🅑 opens with a light-hearted look at cold and flu season. This Short Commentary looks at the Mind, Body, Virus Relationship from a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective - where a cold or flu has a purging and healing effect on the body.        Stress plays a huge role in our viral susceptibilty and self-awareness can make a big difference in our health. It can be helpful to consider our environment, in addition to our thoughts, when we focus on wellness.        Though the weather constantly fluctuates and life throws us curve balls, we will always have the power to check in with ourselves. Keeping an eye on our relationship with our emotional and physical body.         🔹 Episode Notes 🔹        Catherine Skye Knott : https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/     🔎🔗 Link to the Original Published Article:   https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/how-to-catch-a-cold-a-perspective-of-traditional-chinese-medicine/      📚 Reading Material: Natural Healing: Wisdom and Know-How (Holistic Reference Guide - Compiled by Amy Rost).              🎶 Instrumental by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). 🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know!

• Season ② Bonus Feature •  There is a kind of magic that lives within our positive thinking.   Programming the mind to re-frame our thoughts towards a perspective more beneficial - is a transformational ally.  Hypnosis and Neuro-lingistic Programming (NLP) are valuable psychological tools which can help us work with our own, specific programming to create new grooves in the brain - and ameliorate our habits.   NLP and Hypnosis have a shared essential essence. Both processes help us to analyzing our mental habits and actions. Allowing us take a look at our goals and decide what works for us and what doesn't.   This form of therapy can help us learn to take our mental power back.   The following seconds of audio are a Mantra-Style message of positive affirmation - designed to encourage belief in oneself and the power of possibility.   🔹 Episode Notes 🔹    Catherine Skye Knott : https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/   🎶 Instrumental by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). 🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know!

"A Dialogue with the Higher Self"  In this episode, I conclude my 'Field Study' approach to experiencing Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique - as a Therapeutic Tool.   Through this segement, of this personally profound QHHT Regression Session, I become a 'transmitter' for the messages of my own Subconscious Mind - or 'Higher Self'.   This experience was an opportunity to examine my own perspectives on fear, death, reality and the psychology of our culture.  Presenting a valuable opportunity to consider what is possible when we examine long-held beliefs.  Opening the door for personal and fundamental revolution.  I throughly enjoyed producing this investigative series - beginning to end and all parts in between. I also offer a great, heartfelt thanks to QHHT Practitioner, Wanda Amos.  An Extraordinary Woman and Professional of High Caliber.  🔹 Episode Notes 🔹     Wanda Amos - High Level Healing: https://www.highlevelhealing.com/      Email: wanda@highlevelhealing.com     🔹 Catherine Skye Knott : https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/      📚 Reading Material: Dolores Cannon (American Hypnotherapist).       🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know!

"Futuristic Storylines"   In this Episode, we use Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique to travel through my Subconscious Mind to a 'Futuristic' Storyline.  Using this 'field study' approach, I arrive in an unusual and unfamiliar environment - encountering interesting methods of healing and physical recovery.   This storyline shows me how Energy and Colour Treatment are used in conjunction with Planetary Energy Lines, Minerals and Hydro Therapy.  Perhaps an insight into the power of our relationship with the land and environment around us.    🔹 Episode Notes 🔹     Wanda Amos - High Level Healing: https://www.highlevelhealing.com/      Email: wanda@highlevelhealing.com     🔹 Catherine Skye Knott : https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/      📚 Reading Material: Dolores Cannon (American Hypnotherapist).        🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know!

"Past Lives"   Used throughout history as a Therapeutic Tool, Hypnosis was often considered a precursor to meditation. To bring the mind into focus and channel a sacred connection to self.       

 In an attempt to better understand Hypnosis - and observe the vast, richness of possibility this form of treatment can provide - I decided to undergo a Regression Hypnosis session of my own. Utilising the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique.     

  In this Episode, we hear an audio segment of my experience during a 'Past Life' Scenario. Recorded while I was in a relaxed, regressed state.      Quantum Healing Hypnosis Practitioner, Wanda Amos, facilitates my experience by acting as a guide throughout my session.       

🔸 Look for Previous Episodes in this series - Hypnosis Therapy "Past Present and Future":  https://anchor.fm/naturetherapyandbeyond/episodes/S2-Ep2-Hypnosis-Therapy-Series-Past--Present--Future-en8sag🔸      

  🔹Episode Notes 🔹          

Wanda Amos - High Level Healing: 🔗 https://www.highlevelhealing.com/           

Email: wanda@highlevelhealing.com          

🔹 Catherine Skye Knott : 

  🔗 https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/           

📚 Reading Material: Dolores Cannon (American Hypnotherapist).            

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ge’ button below and let us know!

This season, of Nature Therapy and Beyond, is dedicated to considering Hypnosis as a Therapeutic Tool. 

Specifically, we are taking a look at QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique).    

Through observation and discussion, we are delving into its many facets and potentials. In this episode, we consider the concept of the Higher Self or the Subconscious Mind. The universal wisdom within.    

With the guidance and expertise of Practitioner, Wanda Amos, we take a look through the mirror at this ancient and reviered practice.   

🔸 Look for Episode 1 in this series "Past Present and Future" :  https://anchor.fm/naturetherapyandbeyond/episodes/S2-Ep1-Hypnosis-Therapy-Series-Past--Present--Future-en7o7l   

🔹 Episode Notes 🔹    

Wanda Amos - High Level Healing: 🔗 https://www.highlevelhealing.com/    

 Email: wanda@highlevelhealing.com    

🔹 Catherine Skye Knott : 🔗 https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/    

 📚 Reading Material: Dolores Cannon (American Hypnotherapist).      

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Welcome to Season 2 of Nature Therapy and Beyond (🅝🅣and🅑).    

We are launching a new year and a brand-new season with a trip to Nova Scotia, Canada.    

Riding the white-capped waves of the cool Atlantic Ocean we travel deeper for an in-depth, behind the scenes for a 'Field Study' look at the fascinating concept of 🅠🅤🅐🅝🅣🅤🅜 🅗🅔🅐🅛🅘🅝🅖 🅗🅨🅟🅝🅞🅢🅘🅢 🅣🅔🅒🅗🅝🅘🅠🅤🅔 (QHHT).    

Speaking with Practitioner, Wanda Amos, who gently guides us through the inner workings of this powerfully transformative experience - to the other side where no two people and no two sessions are ever the same.    

Throughout the season we will speak with Amos, to gain a bit of background, before travelling within - where I take the opportunity to investigate this therapeutic approach for myself. I will offer excerpts from my own QHHT Regression Session - A personally profound experience with long-reaching benefits.    

🔹 Episode Notes 🔹   

Wanda Amos - High Level Healing: https://www.highlevelhealing.com/    

Email: wanda@highlevelhealing.com   

🔹 Catherine Skye Knott : https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/    

📚 Reading Material: Dolores Cannon (American Hypnotherapist).     

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Episode 10 is the Season 1 Finale, of Nature Therapy and Beyond.   It's a short commentary on the importance of trusting your instincts and being confident and comfortable with your chosen Practitioner.   A practitioner, or therapist, is a valuable asset in personal development and building the life you want.   Meanwhile, the skill of internal navigation applies to every aspect of life - from relationships to current and future challenges and opportunities.   An appropriate Practitioner resonates on a personal level and learning to listen within will take you on an adventure you might never have imagined.   🔹Look for Season 2 - Coming Soon🔹  🔹https://naturetherapiesandcounselling.wordpress.com/bio/   🔊 If you have any thoughts or questions for 🅝🅣and🅑, click the ‘Message’ button below and let us know!