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The actual stress response in real life

The physiological stress response, with a racing heart, sweaty palms, a lump in the throat, tense muscles ready for flight or fight,...

Grief and anger can freeze in the heart

This month the families of 96 victims crushed in the 1989 Hillsborough Football Disaster were informed their loved ones were unlawfully...

Cuba is back in the fray

President Obama and his family visited Cuba this week. The Guardian (21 March 2016) drew potential parallels to the Berlin wall moment....

The most important thing to know

You have to take charge. That's really the most important thing. And when you do, remember that you are amongst humans. At some point...

Change your lens, Change your life

I work within various areas of work and personal performance. These areas can include confidence-building, anxiety-management, authentic...

What's new, Pussycat? ... woah, woah

Today, I want to explore having something new in your life on a regular basis. Although I don't do this on a prescribed quota basis, I...

3 easy tips for adding Joy to your world

Living life! It's become a cliche. But that's for a reason. It's true. Today my nephew and my older sister share a birthday. These...

Grief and Loss - Does it ever end?

Between my husband and I, we lost several immediate family members as well as friends and more distant family members within a few short...

Stress & Wellbeing - What's the big deal? Maybe your Life...

An everyday event, encounter or thought can be perceived as a threat by you, psychological or otherwise, and this can trigger fear, which...

What kind of community member are we?

The wider society we live in is made up of individuals, like each of us. The Bhopal gas disaster is marking the 30th anniversary this...

Meditation in prison - what does it do?

I have been having a lot of conversations about meditation recently and that made me share this video. It perhaps gives an insight to the...

The Politics of Food

A bit condescending but interesting nonetheless #Peace

What is success?

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Looked for relationship deathbed confessions, got this!

We evolved to be social creatures to give us the greatest chances of survival. Urban-living can challenge that, yet deep satisfaction...

Controlled breathing when out of control

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Laughter, the best medicine

We all know laughter is a stress-buster. Chemically, stress flight-or-fight response literally cannot co-exist with laughter chemicals....

12-year old coder... seriously...

I found this and I think that's enough... python, C, Java and so on... #Peace

All change...

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom...

Lesson from the Northern Lights

As opposed to a solar eclipse, the experience of which cannot be easily caught on camera, because of the cooling of temperature as...

Anniversaries, Birthdays, Mid-life crisis

Birthdays and anniversaries are interesting and often bittersweet. We get a year older, we celebrate, and are a year closer to dying......