IF YOU THINK you are living a perfectly healthy life, you could be wrong. In the world we live in, it is virtually impossible to be 100 per cent healthy. The food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink expose us to situations that throw our energy and health levels off balance. However, with a subtle change of mindset, it is possible not only to balance those levels but achieve a better level of health. It all has to do with the combination of mind, body and spirit working together.
This is the backbone of the Mind, Body and Spirit exhibition, now in its eighth year, next weekend. Almost 100 participants will gather at the Hilton Park Hotel, creating the biggest symposium of alternative therapies in Cyprus. “This year’s exhibition has a very healing feeling to it,” said Annette Martinsen, one of two organisers of the exhibition. “Many therapists are taking part and offering some very profound work on self-development and healing the soul.” Try a massage, sample a healing session, browse the tables selling books, health foods, CDs and Feng Shui items or check out these following extraordinary therapies and services each designed to help either the mind, body or spirit progress.
MIND
You might want to check out Sophia Michaelidou’s Clear out the Clutter corner (Tel: 99 457554). “You can help those in need and help yourself feel lighter before the holidays by bringing your unwanted clothes and non-perishable food and household foods to give to local charities,” she says. Cleaning out clutter will clear out the clutter in your mind. Clutter is defined as items you no longer love or use therefore it is stagnant energy; clearing out means creating space for new things and positive energy to come in.
Adonis Ellinas’ Psych-K (Tel: 25 331471) is a combination of psychology and kinesiology believed to be a very easy and effective method to change the software of our subconscious mind and bring into our lives what we desire most. The originator of Psych-K, Robert M. Williams explains what it is: “Psych-K is a user-friendly way to rewrite the software of your mind to change the printout of your life.” Changing subconscious beliefs that may be getting in the way of well-intentioned actions is similar to reprogramming a personal computer. By using Psych-K processes – a kind of mental keyboard to your own brain – you can increase cross talk between the two hemispheres of the celebral cortex, thereby achieving a more whole-brained state, which is ideal for changing subconscious beliefs.
NLP boasts similar benefits, being described as something of an ‘owner’s manual’ for your brain. You will find several NLP trainers at the exhibition; Krikion (Tel: 22 757538), a new Alternative Therapy Centre has a team of seven experienced professionals whose range of therapies include NLP, which has been variously described as the technology of the mind, the science of achievement and the study of success. Based on the search for the study of the factors that account for success or failure in human performance, for over 30 years NLP explorers have studied or modeled the behaviour and thinking styles of particularly effective and successful people in business, education, sales, therapy, sport and personal development. Check out the Makani Academy (Tel: 96 589709 or 96 280095) and Sylvia Braun (Tel: 99 139722) to address the links between physical and emotional well-being.
BODY
The body is perhaps the part of the trio we take most care of. Facials, massages and an organic diet have become vital ingredients to a healthy body but cooking every day isn’t always an option. This is why it might be wise to check out the Thermomix (Tel: 99 361871). If home-cooked food is an important part of your life yet more times than not you feel everyday meals are an impossible task to achieve, the Thermomix can literally help you cut time in the kitchen by half and multiply your cooking options. It can replace over 20 kitchen appliances, as it weighs, cooks, simmers and steams.
Get your hands on high quality bio-supplements such as artichoke, red berries and blackberry syrups at Nature’s Resort Natural and Organic Skin Care (Tel: 22 780429). Artichokes are packed with fibre, rich in vitamin C, folic acid and magnesium while red berries and blackberry syrups contain a flavanoid that has powerful anti-carcinogenic and enzyme-inhibiting properties in addition to being extremely effective at taking care of your skin.
Facials still remain one of the most popular and effective ways of maintaining skin elasticity and health as Dr Maria Angela Quintero ([email protected]) knows. Before any treatment, she likes to go beyond the interior of her patients and by listening to them, achieve a vibration-channeling energy for a facial to flow in perfect harmony. Her facials include plasma skin regeneration and trace elements, botox, final filling folds and lips to shape and enhance, anti-acne treatments with cell rejuvenation and oxygenation of human tissue and German spot treatments.
At the Therapolis Centre (Tel: 25 328585 or 77777727) a pioneering service is available – with the help of highly qualified experts you can have DNA testing to help benefit your skin. Your DNA determines when you start showing signs of ageing, how quickly and at what rate your skin ages so from these results your genetic profile can detail your risk of early ageing, so that you can take action straight away and prevent early damage to your skin. You can prolong youth by identifying your genetic needs to delay the onset of ageing and also identify your nutritional needs for anti-ageing and optimal health.
SPIRIT
The spirit or soul is perhaps the most neglected part of our being but it is given a chance to be rejuvenated at the exhibition with a number of therapies. “Spiritual Response Therapy was developed by Robert E Detzler in 1988 and is now a world renowned therapy. It is based to a great extent on Quantum Physics and the Pythagorean theories which, in the past few years, have given an explanation for many unresolved issues regarding the nature of human existence,” explains Xenia Ioannidou, SRT practitioner from Greece (www.srt.gr). SRT clears the negative energies that each of us accumulates and carries from past lives which burden us psychologically and emotionally.
Try Theta Healing with Annette Martinsen (Tel: 99 619049) to heal issues such as physical ailments, disease, trauma and beliefs. “Theta Healing is healing from the seventh plane on all four levels; the core level, the genetic level, the history level and the soul level,” she says.
Through readings you can get clear information on issues of life, relationships and career. Aura photography (Tel: 99 409110 or 99 662900) offers a modern, pioneering, scientific and painless way to record with precision the bioenergetics situation of the entire body and each organ separately, thus locating any sentimental, intellectual and mental issues.
As Annette Martinsen says, this year’s Mind Body and Spirit exhibition has a healing feeling and will be looking at the person as a whole, helping fundamentally with therapies targeted at the deeper levels of you.
Mind Body and Spirit exhibition
November 13 from 11:00 – 20:00 and November 14 from 11:00 – 19:00 at the Hilton Park in Nicosia. Entrance fee: €7, which includes entrance to all lectures and workshops. www.cyprusspirit.com
