July 05, 2020

Best Stress-Relieving Foods: What, When and How to Eat When You’re Stressed ?

July 05, 2020/ Jaime Tan

In this week's video, I share with you not only WHAT to eat to more effectively manage stress, but also WHEN and HOW to eat - the often forgotten part of eating.

All of these factors will affect how you function and perform throughout your day. What, when and how you eat is going to really affect your stress levels. It’s the difference between keeping you in a high-stressed state versus helping to keep you calm and grounded, able to power through your day with ease.

June 28, 2020

13 Practical Tips on How to Deal with Stress at Work and Home

June 28, 2020/ Jaime Tan

In this week’s video, I’ll take you through 13 tips covering all the practical things you can do to reduce your stress levels. Some of these tips are fast and easy, a few might require you to change some habits so depending on the kind of person you are may take a bit longer - but they’re ALL going to help you reduce your stress levels practically at work and at home.

June 21, 2020

Why You're Still Exhausted and Headed Towards Burnout (And What to Do Instead)

June 21, 2020/ Jaime Tan

In today’s video, I’m gonna explain why you’re STILL exhausted and headed towards burnout, but most importantly - what you can do about it instead! I’ll take you through the 4 things that you’re probably doing that are keeping you in exhaustion, heading towards burnout… versus the 3 things that you CAN do instead to turn things around so you’re consistently eating and moving healthy, getting enough sleep so you get more energy!

June 14, 2020

Is Your Coffee Habit Doing More Harm than Good in Stressful Times?

June 14, 2020/ Jaime Tan

Let me start by saying: Coffee is NOT evil. It’s got loads of polyphenols that have health-promoting properties - such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-diabetes, and antihypertensive properties.

BUT.

If you’re highly stressed, exhausted all the time but wired and can’t fall asleep - you need to understand why excessive coffee (caffeine, really) is actually keeping you in this high alert - high stress mode…

June 11, 2020

Smell: An Unexpected Way to Instantly Calm Down

June 11, 2020/ Jaime Tan

Often overlooked, your olfactory sense can be used to help change your mood in an instant.

Essential oils from plants and flowers can be a cheap and fast way to bring more calm.

Watch to find out how!

May 31, 2020

Everything You Need to Know About Creating Your Home Retreat

May 31, 2020/ Jaime Tan

I’ve just completed a 5-day silent home retreat with my teacher, Richard Miller, on the “Foundations of meditation”. He teaches the iRest method based in the Tantra teachings of Kashmir Shaivism - with a very easily accessible, non-secular approach, and with language easily understood for the Western mind. Not fluffy at all - it’s an immersive experience that cuts through all the intellectual BS…

April 18, 2020

Best Amsterdam Local Food Businesses to Support

April 18, 2020/ Jaime Tan

Are you kidding? Support them ALL! ;)

I know there’s a lot of fear and uncertainty right now - people are afraid of losing their jobs, losing their businesses, etc. But we need to keep buying from the people and businesses that are most affected, in order to keep our economy going. We can all do our part to help!

April 12, 2020

[ EPISODE 2 ] Livestream Guided Meditation: Wellbeing Through Body + Breath

April 12, 2020/ Jaime Tan

Any time throughout your day you start to feel a little tense, anxious or nervous, you can easily calm your nervous system down by focusing on your body and breath.

By calling out the various body parts, different sections of your brain light up, and we start to relax into the various physical/ emotional/ cognitive parts of ourselves.