By Lucy De Pieri PhD, DCH

I am sorry to hear that you have allergies to tree pollen (or fir, or fruit trees), but do you really think that pollen is toxic? If it was then wouldn’t everyone be allergic to it? You are the only one in your family that is allergic to pollen, so why is that?

In homeopathy we understand that susceptibility shows how you are affected by the world around you.

In your particular case, you are susceptible to tree pollen, someone else may be susceptible to sea food, or coffee, or noise, or sunlight… we are all very different.

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Ever wonder why you want to listen to particular music when you’re in a particular mood? Classical or jazz when you’re feeling relaxed, dance or anything with a fast beat when you’re exercising.

There is research that has been conducted and is continually being done just to explain this link. The field is called, and fittingly so, the cognitive neuroscience of music which is the study of brain-based mechanisms involved in the cognitive processes.

Emotions induced by music activate different portions of your brain when compared to emotions elicited by other stimuli. One study found that when different types of music where played to elicit different types of emotions that the area in the brain responsible for those emotions were traced in EEG (electroencephalograph – a recording of electrical activity) activity

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