In recent years meditation has managed to shirk its label as a hippie practice, rebranding itself and becoming more popular in the West than ever before. Endorsed by businesses and universities alike, they boast that it helps focus, reduces stress, and can actually make the user more content. But how do the claims of this…
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I love travelling. As a child I was lucky that my parents would save up to take us on a holiday each year. Guernsey was my first trip not on the UK mainland, and for a five year old, travelling on a plane was immensely exciting. Fast forward to my early twenties, and my excitement…
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The MONQ is an interesting item: most people at first assume it’s a colourful e-cigarette or vaporiser, but it is neither. In fact, the device contains no nicotine or tobacco at all – it is made simply of organic essential oils in a blends they claim will produce various effects. At the moment the ‘flavours’ they…
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There has undoubtedly been a steady rise in the popularity of people being more active and healthy over the last couple of years. Being healthy and fitness conscious has become the ‘It’ thing in our society, with it having almost ‘fashionable’ connotations. It is easy to see why, with all the endless Victoria’s Secret models…
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