The Best WordPress Theme of 2024

The Best WordPress Theme of 2024

A few years ago, when I started this website, I was determined to find the best WordPress theme to suit my ways. It had to be simple to use, but highly flexible, with a lot of options for customising the page.

I asked my online business coach Alex Sol, who had a cool-looking website, what theme he had built his site with. He told me he was using DIVI by Elegant Themes and sent me a link to his review of Divi as well as Elegant Themes’ website. I am grateful to Alex to this very day!

front-end design with Divi

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I started using Divi in 2018, but when someone asks a question “What is the best WordPress theme in 2024?” I’m pretty confident I know the answer.

I had tried a few free WordPress themes before, but I never liked the fact I was not able to customise them as much as I would like. The inflexibility of most of them was impacting my enthusiasm for building websites, as well as slowing down my online business learning process.

I trusted Alex’s personal choice, and after watching a few videos and experimenting with designing a page in the Divi ‘live builder’, I could see how user-friendly and flexible the whole interface was and decided to invest in the Divi theme.

Divi by Elegant Themes

I’m happy to say that I haven’t looked back once since purchasing Divi. This incredible theme has turned my often frustrating work in standard WordPress editor into creative play with no limits to my imagination.

Also, it was soon after rebuilding my website with Divi that I earned my first commission from my affiliate marketing.

Examples of pages built in Divi

Below are a few samples of pages I’ve built in Divi’s Visual Builder – by simply dragging and dropping elements on the page. Each of these images leads to the live version of the page, so if you want to view any of these websites and get the feel of Divi in real life, just click on any given image and it will open in a new tab.

Note that I’ve built all these websites from scratch, without using a template. Although Divi comes with a whole sea of beautiful templates, it’ so simple (and fun!) to build a page in Divi’s Visual Builder, that you’re more than likely to end up designing everything by yourself.

Old School Players
amabel clarke storyteller
Swell Maps website
https://aidanandrewdun.com/
https://aidanandrewdun.com/
https://lesstweb.com/
https://lesstweb.com/works/
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What Makes Divi So Special?

The Divi theme is actually much more than just a WordPress theme. It’s a complete web design platform that replaces the standard WordPress editor with a far more advanced visual editor. 

The process of building a page is really flexible: You can still build the standard way, (on the back end), but you can also build on the front end, in Divi’s Visual Builder, where you can see what your published page will look like while building it. No need for the constant switching from standard WordPress editor to preview your pages. This is what’s made all the difference for me.

The Visual Builder - building a page on the front-end

To have an idea of what I’m talking about, have a look at the following video by the Divi team, where they’re introducing one of the previous software updates. (By now Divi’s upgraded to version 4, with yet more great updates such as the WooCommerce modules, but this video will give you a good general overview of Divi’s features and potential.)

As the Divi developer in the video (who for some reason seems to remind everyone of Nicholas Cage) says: ‘The new visual builder allows you to make changes on your website on your actual website. There is no need to preview your pages because everything is happening right in front of your eyes.’

Everything is totally customisable on the actual page. Shapes and sizes of your building blocks, fonts, images, etc. It feels as if you are painting directly on the canvas, rather then trying to control everything from behind the painting. If you want to add a block of text, an image, a video, a gallery, etc, just add it on the front end and that’s it.

Premade Templates

Divi comes with a huge number of beautiful premade layouts, so if you want something ready-made (but still fully customisable), you can choose from 1183 (!) really cool templates. 

When you want to build a page, you have three options:

1) Build from scratch

2) Choose an existing layout

3) Clone an existing page.

Three ways to create a page

Sections, Rows, and Modules

If you want to build from scratch like I do, Divi has a range of building blocks called sections, rows, and modules. With these you can build anything from a minimalist room to a baroque cathedral.

You have complete freedom to chose the number, size, and placement of these elements.

Here is an example of the three basic building blocks:

Section, Row and Module

Here are the three building blocks in ‘real life’:

Section, Row and Module
Section, Row and Module

The Three-step Procedure of Building a Basic Structure

1) First, you’ll create a section (think of a section like a big, outer container or a box, inside which everything else fits.

2) Then you’ll create a row (an ‘inner container’ – the box with a green border) inside the section.

In the two images above I’ve only used a single row, but, as you can see from the following screenshot, you can select a row with as many segments/columns as you like, and these can be of different widths. (There are even more combinations possible than in this screenshot).

Rows and their variations

3) Finally, you insert a module. A module can be: A text, an image, a gallery, a map, a shopping cart, etc. Basically, all the various content inside your page.

This is what inserting a module looks like:

Inserting a module

In the following example I’m using a row with four segments/columns, and into each column I have inserted a module called ‘blurb’.

A blurb module is a combination of an image and text, as you’ll see in the second example below:

A row with four segments (or columns)
Section, Row and Module ('Blurb')

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Would you like a little ‘live builder’ experience? Try the ‘Drag and Drop’ Page Builder for free here. (Click on Divi / Live Builder Demo.) You can take a short tour first or start building straight away. Enjoy!

Divi Builder Live Demo - From the menu, go to: Divi / Live Builder Demo

An Overview of Divi Modules

Here is Divi’s generous list of the modules:

Divi Modules
Divi Modules

Examples of Modules

Here are several examples of different modules. 

The Gallery Module

You can add captions and descriptions to your thumbnails, or hide them as I’ve done here. Click on an image to enlarge it.

You can experiment with customising your gallery’s background, adding a border to the thumbnails, make the border’ corners rounder, etc.

The Slider Module

Another great, fully customisable module to showcase your / your client’s products or art. This is a ‘real life’ slider I’ve created for an online store ‘Buddha Groove’.

The Blog Module

This is one of my favourite features of the Divi theme. You can use Divi’s blog module to customise the appearance of your blog page and organise your posts and categories. You can insert a blog module on any page you like (even on multiple pages) and control how your blog excerpts will display. 

Here’s an example of how I’ve used the blog module:

Instead of the traditional blog-page layout, (which Divi offers as well) I’ve chosen a grid layout, which gives my blog-page more of a magazine look.

The Blog Module: Grid layout

You can also go really minimal, hiding the featured images:

Hiding featured images in the blog module

Here’s the more classic look of a Divi blog module from my coach Alex Sol’s ‘Extra Paycheck’ blog. (Check out his podcast devoted to online entrepreneurship. I’m grateful to this guy for so many things, his great articles and podcast being just the tip of the iceberg.)

Extra PayCheck blog - Alex Sol

The Blurb Module

This is one of my favourite modules. Below is an example of a fully functioning Blurb module (i.e. two Rows with four Blurb modules in each), borrowed from my article about the online store ‘Buddha Groove’. First I created a Row with four sections, and then I inserted the modules. After that, I duplicated the first Row. You can have a lot of fun designing the Blurbs; you can create the ‘on-mouse hover’ effect by selecting a desired degree of transparency; you can also create rounded corners, or choose from various animation effects.

The Email Optin Module

The Email Optin – an essential module for anyone in online business. Fully customisable as well.

Email Optin module
Email Optin module

The Social Media Follow Module

The icons inserted through the Social media Follow module will lead your website visitors to your social media platforms. The icons are also customisable – you can keep them as they are or make them transparent to fit your page’s design.

Here’s the standard look of the icons:

And here are a few examples of my playing with the design:

Social Media Follow module
Social Media Follow module

The Contact Form Module

Contact forms are also highly customisable. In the second example, I have used partial transparency in the form’s fields.

Contact Form module

The WooCommerce modules

Another bonus of the 2019 update is Divi’s WooCommerce Builder, which includes 16 Divi’s WooCommerce modules. These allow you to create custom product templates, and amazing product pages. You’ll be able to build your own product listings anywhere on your website. 

Divi WooCommerceBuilder
Divi WooCommerce module example
Divi WooCommerce module example

You can activate all the Divi WooCommerce modules by first installing the common Woocommerce plugin, and then activating Divi’s Woocommerce Builder. I am not using this feature yet, but you can view live demos and tutorials on Divi’s WooCommerce modules on Elegant Themes website under Divi WooCommerce Modules.

Great Plugins – Free with The Divi Theme

The fun certainly doesn’t stop at all the modules or the WooCommerce Builder. When you purchase Divi, you’ll also get a whole package of bonuses including some really cool plug-ins mentioned in this list:

The Plugins that come with Divi
Monarch - Social Sharing plugin

Monarch – Your Social Sharing Plugin

The first one well-worth mentioning is Monarch, a social-sharing plug-in, rated as one of the top social media plug-ins on Google.

For instance, Bloggingwizard.com rates Monarch as the second best in his 2020 review of 11 Best Social Sharing Plugins For WordPress, right after the extremely popular plugin Social Snap.

Shoutmeloud.com places Monarch in the fourth place, while, interestingly, he also rates Social Snap as first. By any means give Social Snap a try, as it does look and sound great, but remember that if you decide to invest in the Divi theme, you will get Monarch for free.

Manage the location of your social sharing icons

You can manage the placement of your social sharing icons in several ways, as seen from Monarch’s interface.

You can place them vertically on the side of your page, or  ‘inline’ your page or post. (That means above, anywhere within, or below your post). They can also ‘pop up’ or ‘fly in’.

 

Monarch plugin - settings

As you can see in the ‘Manage locations’ screenshot, I’ve ticked ‘Sidebar’ and ‘Fly in’. The sidebar icons are fixed, and the ‘Fly in’ will appear once you scroll all the way down the page.

You can see how it works on this very page.

Examples of Social Share Icons’ Placements

Here’s a common placement of the social share icons in the sidebar:

Monarch's social share icons in the sidebar

In the next example, the icons are ‘inline’, straight after the end of a blog post, in the middle of the page. You can arrange the icons both vertically or horizontally.

Monarch's social share icons inline
Monarch's social share icons inline - clcik to view the actual page

And here is the ‘Fly in’. If you want to see it flying in real time, just scroll all the way down this page…and click on it. 🙂

Monarch's Fly-in social share icon

You can also choose on which pages or posts you don’t want the icons to appear.

Monarch provides you with the social follow icons as well, so you can experiment with these, as well as the icons from the ‘Social Follow’ module.

Bloom - Email Opt-in and Lead Generation plugin

Bloom – an Email Opt-in Plugin

Another plug-in that comes free with Divi is Bloom, an Email Opt-in plug-in, which integrates with subscription services such as MailChimp, Aweber and others.

Bloom helps you grow your email list. When you insert a Bloom email opt-in form to your page, it will connect to your email marketing or email newsletter software. When someone signs up using the Bloom opt-in form, they get added to your email list.

You can choose from many customizable templates and even upload your own image. You can also decide where on the page you want the form to appear, and whether you prefer it static, or as a fly-in or a pop-up form.

Below are two examples of a simple subscription form. You can click on the second one to view it on a real page, where I’ve placed it under the post.

Bloom email optin - subscription form
Bloom email optin - subscription form

You can find out more on Bloom’s general overview page, or check out plenty of Bloom demos and tutorials which you can access here.

Extra - Magazine Theme and Visual Page Builder

Extra – the Magazine WordPress Theme

I haven’t tried it yet because I’ve been having so much fun with creating my own designs with Divi, but you can learn more about Extra from the general overview on Elegant Themes website, as well as from their tutorials and articles.

Extra by Elegant Themes
Extra by Elegant Themes - Features

Divi Demos and Tutorials

Back to the Divi Theme: Do check out the great library full of articles, tutorials and demos.

Here are all the links:

Live Divi Builder demo – try building a page with Divi! 

Divi Overview

Divi tutorials and articles

Excellent Customer Support

The customer support team from Divi / Elegant Themes are always super helpful. They’ll be there for you 24/7, answering any of your questions.

Plus, apart from the direct support team, there are some great Divi-devoted forums, groups, and individuals. I’ve learned a lot from a cool guy called Josh Hall, a real pro in Divi. He’s got many of his own tutorials on Youtube, his website, and his own Facebook group called ‘Divi Web Designers‘. I highly recommend joining the group.

'Divi Web Designers' Facebook Group - Josh Hall

You can also join Divi’s official Facebook group called ‘Divi Theme Users‘ where you can get any of your questions answered by many experienced Divi enthusiasts.

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Pricing

If you decide to invest into Divi, you can choose from two options:

A yearly subscription ($89 a year) or Lifetime access for $249 one-off payment. I got Lifetime access from the very start as it was clear to me that I would be using Divi long-term. Remember, when you buy Divi, you are not getting just one separate theme, but a complete package of themes, plugins, and 24/7 support. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that you’re getting the ultimate web design toolkit.

I am currently offering a 10% discount on the complete Divi package. You can get to this limited-time offer via this link, or by clicking on the countdown timer below.

Remember that signing up with Divi / Elegant Themes is risk-free. You’ll get a 30-day money-back guarantee, and if for any reason you feel Divi (and all that comes with it) is not for you, you’ll get a full refund.

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Conclusion

I hope you have enjoyed this Divi walkthrough and that it has helped you see the incredible potential of this theme. As you’ve probably guessed, I swear by this theme and would recommend it to everyone. But you should always make your own decision. I’d highly recommend comparing this theme against other WordPress themes. There are plenty of free WordPress themes, some of them with free hosting.

One such platform is Siterubix, where you can create your website for free and experiment with many WordPress-based themes. This is how I started – I was running several websites on Siterubix’s free domain for months.

So, perhaps once you’ve tried out several themes and platforms, (like I did) and still don’t feel completely satisfied, you can opt for the Divi Theme – don’t forget you can give it a try for one whole month. (A word of warning: You may not want to come back to any other theme after experiencing what Divi can do for you!)

Don’t forget to test the Divi Builder for free (via Divi / Live Builder Demo), and have a look at some of the articles and tutorials.

Let’s Talk About Divi

If you would like to ask any questions or share your opinion about Divi or any of the related plugins, do leave a comment below, and I’ll do my best to reply as soon as possible.

For those of you who have tried Divi or are actively using it, I’d be very interested to hear about your experience as well.

BY LUCIE DUN

This site has been built with DIVI, by Elegant Themes.

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How to Stop a Cold in its Tracks

How to Stop a Cold in its Tracks

Cold free!

Have you ever wondered how to stop a cold from developing? I’m still pinching myself about this, but I managed to go through last two winters without getting a cold. In my case, this is a bit of a miracle. I used to catch colds even in the middle of summer, but autumn and winter especially had always been the dreaded seasons for me.

Almost every time I’d take part in a social gathering, have a night out, go to work not rested enough, or, rested enough but meeting someone with a cold, I’d end up with a sore throat, weak muscles, headache, cough, all these symptoms accompanied with overall lethargy and tiredness.

My mood would just plummet at the first tingle in my throat, since I knew I’d be sentenced to at least a week of misery. And since I can never stay in bed a whole week, I’d have to go about my daily business ill. Commuting to work would turn into a nightmare, especially the joys of the rush hour, when standing with week legs in a hot, packed train, squeezed by the mass of anonymous bodies, longing for an empty seat on which I could just collapse and preferably evaporate.

 

The turning point

When I discovered the legendary healer Donna Eden, the founder of Eden Energy Medicine, (more in my article Incorporating Energy Medicine Into Everyday Life)  the first thing I learnt was the Daily Energy Routine, which is a set of exercises which you can perform in less than 10 minutes but which have a dramatic impact on your health. And very soon I realised that this was one of the best, most useful things I’ve ever learnt in my life.

Because when you start practicing this short, simple routine daily, you’ll soon notice considerable improvement in the way you feel and operate. You’ll start ‘collaborating’ with your own body in terms of correcting its energy flows, which will have an noticeable impact on your overall health and state of mind.

What really caught my attention when reading about this set of exercises, was Donna’s story about reversing a coming flu. She was about to give a major talk in London in front of a large audience, when she started feeling unwell. At that time there was a flu virus getting around and she felt she caught it, feeling increasingly weak and nauseous.

So she decided to resort to her tried an tested ‘first aid’ – i.e. thumping her spleen neurolymphatic reflex points, which lie on the ribcage beneath the breasts.

So there she was, standing in front of an audience, not saying a word, just banging her ribcage. The audience must have considered it rather odd!

When, after a while, Donna started feeling well again, she explained to the puzzled audience what she was doing: She was tapping at her spleen neurolymphatic reflex points, which helped her lift her energy levels and boost her immune system instantly, and this deceptively simple exercise helped her prevent a potentially nasty cold.

You can nip a cold in a bud, too!

If you start practicing the Daily Energy Routine (explained further down) on a daily basis, your body will become much more resistant to viruses. I really cannot praise it enough, and I can’t stop talking about the verging-on-miraculous technique which so clearly rescued me from a beginning cold, on multiple occasions.

One instance of this was in October, when after a string of very hectic days I woke up in the middle of the night with the dreaded dryness in my throat, accompanied by a feeling of increased temperature in my body, clogged sinus, and a headache. There we go, a week of hell has started! I thought.

However, I decided to take some action in a form of giving this newly discovered energy medicine a try.

 

Better in about three minutes!

After the essential sinus clearing, (described further down) which relieved the worst of my ill sensations, I went on to do the ’emergency four thumps’.

As you will see in her video, Donna’s Daily Energy Routine starts with ‘The Four Thumps’, which can do wonders for your body when you feel drained and about to succumb to a cold.

And that’s exactly what I did then, in the middle of the night. It took me only about 3 minutes, but I felt so much better afterwards! Clearheaded, less achy, feeling this healing flow of energy throughout my whole body. Then I returned back to bed, fell asleep, and lo and behold – when I woke up, I was fine!

This is the reason I keep talking about this technique everywhere and with such enthusiasm. I credit The Four Thumps and the rest of the Daily Energy Routine with banishing my cold several times already since last autumn!

 

The Four Thumps in detail

By thumping those four points, you will activate a sequence of responses that will impact your energy field by sending electrochemical impulses to your brain and releasing neurotransmitters, which will make you feel as if you are ‘recharging your batteries’.

You will be releasing toxins from clogged areas and allowing all the subtle energies, which support the vital organs in your body, to flow freely, and thus supporting your natural ability to heal.

 

The Four Thumps consist of the following:

  • The Stomach meridian thump
  • Kidney meridian (K 27) thump
  • The Thymus Thump
  • Spleen neurolymphatic reflex points thump

Important: For all the following exercises, breathe deeply, in through your nose and out through your mouth.

(You can remember it this way: First ‘smell a rose’, then ‘blow out a candle’.)

This form of breathing, practiced widely in yoga, connects the central meridian with the governing meridian, (which impact all the other 12 meridians) and moves vital energy through the chakras.

I personally devote about three to four deep breaths to each exercise.

On average, about 15 – 20 seconds is sufficient for each exercise.

Don’t forget to thump firmly and vigorously!

 

The Stomach meridian thump

 

Using the pads your fingers, tap on the edge of the cheekbones under your eyes. There are important acupressure points, and tapping them will help you ground yourself and receive healing energy from the earth. You will notice that you are feeling less stressed or tense, and more ‘in your body’, or more present. It’s a great little exercise to do just before meeting someone, as it promotes clear thinking, as you’ll also be grounded, you’ll feel more confident.

(I tell myself: ‘Before you knock on someone’s door, knock on your cheekbones’!)

With regards to preventing a cold, this technique helps to drain sinuses and clear the lymph glands in your neck, so it’s indeed a first-aider worth remembering.

 

Kidney meridian (K 27) thump

This exercise is the queen of energizers, as it literally jump-starts all your meridians. It lies at the junction of all the other meridians, so it is very powerful. If you are exhausted, physically or emotionally, your meridian energies are flowing backwards.

Stimulating the kidney meridian points can reverse the energies, so they start flowing forwards. Often you’ll notice a sudden change in your energy right after performing this exercise.

It will also focus your mind.

To locate these points (K 27 = 27th point on the kidney meridian), first place your fingers on your collarbone, and then move them towards the U-shaped notch (where your neck starts).

Move your fingers to the bottom of the U-shaped notch, and then about an inch to the left and right – those two soft points right under the bone are the K 27s.

You can thump those points, but you can also massage them instead. This should be done vigorously and with firm pressure.

 

The Thymus thump

This is excellent for your immune system, as it turns it on. Have you ever seen a gorilla banging her chest? This exercise might well make you want to climb a few trees.

Place your fingers on the centre of your sternum, at your thymus gland, and thump firmly for about 15 – 20 seconds.

This exercise is especially great when you need to persist with something and you are aware you are starting to lose energy. You’ll see that suddenly you’ll be able to go on for much longer.

(Donna used to teach this to swimmers, for example)

 

The Spleen meridian neurolymphatic points

The spleen neurolymphatic reflex points are part of the lymph system. Since the spleen is crucial to the functioning of the immune system, stimulating these points by tapping / thumping is a great way to:

  • Lift your energy level
  • Synchronize your body’s rhythms
  • Boost your immune system
  • Remove toxins
  • Fight infection
  • Help to cope with stress
  • Lessen dizziness
  • Help with metabolizing food, toxins, and stress
  • Balance your blood chemistry (incl. blood sugar)

Tap (with three-finger notch) the spleen meridian neurolymphatic points beneath the breasts on the ribcage. These points also govern your pancreas, so it’s good for blood sugar regulation.

This will help you metabolise anything that is not good for you, which can range from food and toxins to your or someone else’s negative thoughts.

You can also tap the spleen acupuncture points, located on the side of the body about four inches down from the arm pits.

 

Donna in action

The Four Thumps are a part of The Daily Energy Routine, which includes several more exercises. In this article I have focused on The Four Thumps only, as a tried-and-tested first aider when you start feeling ill, but I strongly recommend learning the whole Energy Routine and incorporating it into your daily life. It takes only a few minutes, but it can have a long lasting positive effect on your health.

If you’re consistent with it, your immunity will strengthen, so you might not even need to experience those ‘first aider’ moments when you find yourself on a bug battlefield. You will become much more resilient to virus attacks and those seasonal colds will become history.

So go on and check out the whole Daily Energy Routine, which Donna demonstrates so charmingly in this video; it might become your own ‘energy vaccine’!

Here’s how Donna does it:

Donna Eden demonstrates The Daily Energy Routine

IMPORTANT UPDATE (March 2020) – please watch Donna and David’s advice regarding the Coronavirus pandemic in the video below. It includes some very helpful immunity-boosting tips you can do ‘on the go’, so check it out and ideally share it with others! Thank you.

In addition to these techniques, here some more cold-easing tricks which have always worked for me:

Black Pepper Tea

This is a super-easy Ayurvedic recipe I’ve learned from my meditation teacher Emily Fletcher (check my article on how meditation can improve your life), and I have noted very good results – both in my own case and with people I’ve recommended this to. So when you’re feeling that a cold is coming, make this healing drink:

– Grind a pinch or two of organic black pepper into a mug

– Slowly pour boiling water into it and let the pepper settle to the bottom of the mug.

– Sip the ‘pepper tea’, which will help you sweat out the cold and eliminate the bugs in your throat.

– Do this every two to three hours .

– If you want to make the drink more interensting, add some more spice, such as cardamom, cinnamon and turmeric. Turmeric is especially great because of its anti-imlammatory properties. A teaspoon of it will add a nice golden colour to your peppery drink.

– While sipping this healing drink, visualise yourself getting better, and thank your body in your mind for healing you. Try to feel the emotion of gratitude, imagining how liberated you will feel once you are healthy again, while fully accepting that this is a time of healing rest for your body.

A ‘sinus rinse’ – a great addition to the four thumps

When you feel the cold is beginning to get you, especially through the annoying signs of a blocked or runny nose, a sore throat, a headache and a feeling of general malaise, a highly effective addition to the Four Thumps and a hot drink is a so-called ‘sinus rinse’.

It’s a sinus-relieving and cleansing technique I learnt in India, and however unusual or even uncomfortable it may initially appear, I swear by it!

I much prefer experimenting with these ‘earthly’ methods, if they make me feel clearly better; I find this natural method so much better than using chemical decongestant nasal drops or all those anti-cough sweets.

(Well, perhaps with the exception of the Ricola Herbal Sweets – I personally think the Mountain Mint and the Glacier Peppermint Mint are the Manna from Swiss heaven in a pastille form. 😉

So, if you’re not afraid of getting some salty water into your sinus, you’ll be rewarded by an instant, considerable relief from both sore throat and a headache.

 

How to do a sinus rinse:

Fill a glass with a bit of warm water, sprinkle a small amount of finely ground sea salt in it, then block one of your nostrils with your finger, and ‘drink’ the water with your other nostril.

Then you blow it out, and/or and spit it out with your mouth. Do both nostrils, and then gurgle (Or vice versa, that’s up to you)

Make sure the salt goes into both your nostrils and your throat.

This really is a brilliant way of getting rid of a headache caused by blocked sinus – do try it out and you’ll see what I mean.

 

Learn more about Energy Medicine

Would you like to learn more about Energy Medicine? For example, the science behind Daily Energy Routine is fully explained on pg. 72 – 99 in Donna Eden’s book ‘Energy Medicine – Balancing Your Body’s Energies for Optimal Health, Joy, and Vitality’, which has become a classic in the field of Energy Medicine, and contains everything you want to know about the essentials of this groundbreaking discipline.

You can get a copy of ‘Energy Medicine’ on my Resources page, full of other great books and items related to Energy Medicine and general health and wellbeing.

I hope you’ve found this article useful. If you’ll ever feel that familiar tingle in your throat, or start to feel under the weather in general, do try some of these tips listed here and let me know how it went! I’d be happy to hear from you.

BY LUCIE DUN

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How To Improve Digestion

How To Improve Digestion

Needles to say, indigestion it’s not one of the top desirable physical sensations. You might have eaten too much, or simply had something that doesn’t really agree with your digestive system and it is thus difficult to digest.

Indigestion can appear through numerous symptoms – bloating, pain in the abdominal area, gas, low energy showing as sluggishness and tiredness, bad mood, just to name a few.

The good news is, there are quite a number of tools available to bring the desired relief, and it’s worth trying out a combination of them, to see what suits you the bes especially as causes of indigestion can vary.

 

BEST WAYS TO IMPROVE DIGESTION

The following list consist of a few of my tried and tested favourites.

 

BAKING SODA

When you suffer from a stomach pain after a heavy meal, drink a small glass of water with a tea spoon of baking soda. You might feel a considerable relief within minutes, as soda bicarbonate of soda neutralizes acidic environment, changing it to alkaline. This method is also recommended for cancer patients – cancer thrives in acidic environment, so changing the body’s PH to more alkaline is beneficial.

 

USE NATURAL HEALING TECHNIQUES

If you need help metabolising something that that doesn’t agree with you, if you have small intestine issues, or need to balance your blood sugar, you can use the following techniques used in traditional healing, one of which is the field of Energy Medicine. These technique include massage as well as holding specific points on your body.

Donna Eden, the legendary clairvoyant healer and founder of Eden Energy Medicine, talks about all these techniques this in her iconic book, Energy Medicine: Balancing Your Body’s Energies for Optimal Health, Joy, and Vitality.

 

Here are my favourites:

 

ABDOMINAL STRETCH 

First rub them to generate extra energy and then, using both hands, stretch your troubled tummy in all directions. You can imagine the centre of pain as a ball of clogged energy, which you are releasing outwards, creating ‘sunbeams’ of relief.

 

MASSAGE YOUR NEUROLYMPHATIC REFLEX POINTS 

Use your thumbs or a cluster of fingers to massage under your bra line, from the centre to the sides – these your Neurolymphatic Reflex points which, when stimulated, will help ease digestion by metabolising it more quickly.

 

THUMP THE CHEEKBONES UNDER YOUR EYES

This may sound strange – what do cheekbones have in common with the stomach? Well, they have something very important in common – the acupressure points at the beginning of the Stomach Meridian.

When these points are stimulated, calming, restorative and strengthening energy is being send to the stomach, and you will experience a healthy feeling of being grounded. You will start feeling more ‘in your body’, which will bring on an additional psychological bonus of increased confidence and sense of being yourself.

It is recommended you thump this point before meeting people, e.g. when we feel a bit insecure. I treat it as a little game – often, before knocking at someone’s door, I knock on my cheekbones!

DO THE SPLEEN THUMP 

Make a 3-finger notch and tap on both sides, under your chest. This addresses the Neurolymphatic Reflexes of the spleen system, which also governs your pancreas, so this technique is also really good for regulating blood sugar.

FLUSH SPLEEN MERIDIAN

If you have a stomach ache or indigestion, flushing Spleen Meridian can often bring considerable relief. Most people’s Spleen meridian is often out of balance, which is one of the main causes of low immunity, so flushing Spleen meridian regularly leads to stronger resistance to infections and improves your overall health.

 

HOW TO FLUSH SPLEEN MERIDIAN

Place your hands a few inches under your armpits, approximately where women would have a bra-line.

Then shift your hands up a bit, (towards your armpits) and then, after having drawn this imaginary hook, swipe your hands all the way down the sides of your body, ending on a big toe. (You have just traced your Spleen meridian backwards.)

Now do this in the opposite direction, from your big toe all the way up near your armpits, where you finish with the ‘hook’ shape.

A great resource for learning all about your meridians is Donna Eden’s book Energy Medicine – Balancing Your Body’s Energy for Optimal Health, Joy and Vitality, as well as this laminated chart of acupressure points that connect into meridians pathways. 

BY LUCIE DUN

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