I. January. For those in the gloomy northern hemisphere often a time of grim knuckling down . Many of us have made our resolutions - to stop drinking, cut sugar, start a regular squats   routine. Maybe we actually started. Maybe our new discipline is already plateauing, if not actually crumbling. The sense of mission creep may already be looming, adding to our bleak January outlook. Naturally, we want to be better, stronger, more productive, better off, less anxious. We may w

The Choice Paradox, The Joy of OHIO and Don't Hunt Unicorns

our intuitive brains are brilliant, but their main flaw is that they don't know when they are falling into a trap, and modern life is filled with such traps...

The Fascia, Tensegrity, and Why Moving Well Is More Important - and Easier - Than Looking Perfect You may have heard about the debate...

Being right about everything is - I imagine - like buying an expensive car; gratifying at first but eventually a burden, something that...

People love to judge. Everyone has an opinion. And these days we are swimming in it; opinions, judgements, and even more perilously;...

Under The Skin: Health Beliefs As a medical student I recall sitting through tutorials about 'health beliefs' and other topics with...

'Words are not counted, they are weighed' - proverb Marks On Paper, Sounds In The Air The patient sitting before me, let's call her...

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...

This article was started before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic started to sweep across the world in January 2020. The dynamics behind the spread...

This article was started before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic started to sweep across the world in January 2020. The dynamics behind the spread...

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...

Always to seek for wider, deeper, transcendental experiences is a form of escape from the actual reality of "what is", which is...

There is never anywhere to go but in. - Doris Lessing In the 1960s a psychiatrist working for the Indian Health Service in North America...

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...

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...

The following talk was given at the 2018 Mental Wealth Festival organized by the City Lit Institute and which took place at the National...

Have you ever wondered why, when we talk about reality, we rarely mean something good? 'Real life', for example, usually implies...

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...

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...