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Flower power

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It’s all about flowers this Sunday, from the perils of pollen for hayfever sufferers to the positive healing powers of flower essences…

Although the weather may be pretty frightful right now, there’s no getting away from the fact that spring is here. And, beautiful as they may be to look at, the blossoms and bright yellow fields of rape it brings come at a price for many of us as we find ourselves facing days or weeks of sniffly misery!

If that sounds familiar, you’ll want to hear what Fiona has to say about the ways of reducing the impact of so much pollen in the air – as she will explain, there are lots of choices beyond antihistamines.

In the second hour of the show, the Girls Around Town will be joined by Wendy Jackson – like Fiona, she’s a homeopath but she’ll be sharing her expertise in another field of natural remedies: Australian Bush Flower Essences.

Tune in or listen online between 10am and 12 noon to find out about the role these gentle but powerful flower-based essences play in bringing about healing on a mental, emotional, spiritual and physical level.

Tick, tock – your brain is calling…

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Have you ever wondered about the science behind how your mind really works? What sets those neurons firing – or not?

Get the inside track on the latest neuroscience when Daksha Patel joins June, Tina and Sue on this week’s show. As a certified Coach, a Colour Code Trainer, a HearMath Coach and a certified organisational trainer in the UK for Dr Joe Dispenza, she probably knows far more about what’s going on in your brain than you do!

She’ll be sharing her own journey from working in the public sector to creating her business, Your Mind At Work, explaining how to harness the power of your brain to increase personal effectiveness – at work or at home, with your boss, your partner or your kids – and how changing your mind creates new results…

Tune in or listen online between 10am and 12 noon on Sunday when the Girls Around Town will be picking Daksha’s brains for tips on how to manage the 70,000-ish thoughts you have each day. And how to ensure you have more of the good and useful ones!

A language more universal than words

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Picture by Gilly Walker

Want to do much more with your camera or smartphone than just take selfies and holiday snaps?

Then you’ll want to hear what this week’s guest Gilly Walker has to say about the exciting possibilities photography offers both as a form of self expression and as a meditative or mindful practice…

Photography is a language more universal than words – Minor White

Fine art photographer, philosopher, writer and lover of nature Gilly will be joining the Girls Around Town in the studio to talk about a more thoughtful, intuitive approach to taking pictures, one that is often called contemplative or inner path photography.

“I like to photograph things not for what they are but for what else they are,” says Gilly, paraphrasing one of America’s greatest photographers, Minor White.

“I like the dreamy, the ambiguous, the moody, the spontaneous, the colourful and the symbolic, and I like to find these in very ordinary places where they often go unnoticed. I don’t own much gear and I’m not very interested in the equipment – the technology is a means to an end and while I do think that much is gained from knowing how to use it, ultimately the power of an image comes from the photographer’s ability to see freshly and clearly.”

Tune in or listen online between 10am and 12 noon on Sunday to find out more about mindfulness in photography, how Gilly discovered her photographic voice and how she helps others to do so too in her workshops, creative photo walks and personal tuition.

There might even be time to ask her to share her sonnet on the theme of chocolate, a love story that’s pretty universal too!