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People love to judge. Everyone has an opinion. And these days we are swimming in it; opinions, judgements, and even more perilously;...
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Humphrey James
Sep 249 min read
Habits of Language Pt 2.
Under The Skin: Health Beliefs As a medical student I recall sitting through tutorials about 'health beliefs' and other topics with...
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Humphrey James
Sep 98 min read
Habits Of Language Pt.1
'Words are not counted, they are weighed' - proverb Marks On Paper, Sounds In The Air The patient sitting before me, let's call her...
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H James
May 12, 202014 min read
Fluid Intelligence: The Immune System, Part 2
The Waterfall The year was 1910 and in Japan a young man called Tempu Nakamura was facing his own death. It was not the first time. As a...
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H James
May 5, 202011 min read
Fluid Intelligence: The Immune System Part 1.
This article was started before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic started to sweep across the world in January 2020. The dynamics behind the spread...
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H James
May 5, 202011 min read
Fluid Intelligence: The Immune System Part 1.
This article was started before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic started to sweep across the world in January 2020. The dynamics behind the spread...
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H James
Sep 11, 20196 min read
The Language of Nature
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Einstein It is said that...
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H James
Sep 6, 20196 min read
The Paradox of Mindfulness
Always to seek for wider, deeper, transcendental experiences is a form of escape from the actual reality of "what is", which is...
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H James
Jan 7, 201915 min read
Exploring The Depths
There is never anywhere to go but in. - Doris Lessing In the 1960s a psychiatrist working for the Indian Health Service in North America...
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H James
Nov 9, 20188 min read
Selling Tranformation
There is no magic formula, it's just doing the basic things much better than anybody else. - Joachim Low Be grateful for your mind weeds...
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H James
Oct 3, 20187 min read
The Invisible Bridge
Murky water is turbid; let it settle and it clears. - Lui Yiming, Awakening to the Tao This may be a familiar scenario: You're feeling in...
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H James
Sep 13, 201813 min read
Achieving Without Trying
The following talk was given at the 2018 Mental Wealth Festival organized by the City Lit Institute and which took place at the National...
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H James
Sep 9, 20187 min read
Billions of Tiny Droplets
Have you ever wondered why, when we talk about reality, we rarely mean something good? 'Real life', for example, usually implies...
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H James
Aug 16, 20188 min read
Distress to Eustress
The following is from a talk I gave at the Mother Bear event organized by the Brun Bear Foundation on the subject of work-life...
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H James
Apr 26, 20186 min read
Getting off the Hook
The news we hear is full of grief for that future, but the real news inside here is there's no news at all - Rumi How often have I - in a...
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H James
Feb 9, 20187 min read
Another Slice of Reality
"What we ordinarily call "reality" is merely that slice of total fact which our biological equipment, our linguistic heritage and our...
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H James
Feb 1, 20183 min read
Time to Talk Day
February 1st is 'Time to Talk' day, a project by the Time-to-Change organisation to get people talking about mental health issues, to...
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H James
Nov 29, 20176 min read
Work and Non-Work
"It should be obvious that the solution to our ecological crisis and our social and economic problems are the same thing. We harmonise...
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H James
Nov 8, 20177 min read
The Problem Of Other People
'When we do something with a complicated mind, in relation to other things or people, or society, our activity becomes very complex.' -...
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H James
Nov 3, 20177 min read
The Survival Instinct: Old Brain vs New Mind
Here is a common scenario: You see a piece of chocolate. You like chocolate, but you know you shouldn't eat too much. After some internal...
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