There is a great benefit that can be realised by helping another person, or group – such as a charity. It is said you can help feed a person or help teach a person to feed themselves, but I think there’s more to it than that. If we require input we grow as the input [...]

The disparate division of food on the globe causes problems not only for those who have too little, but the health effects are well known for those who have too much. The growth of shopping trolleys over the years and marketing methods used to influence people to consume more is well documented. This extra consumption [...]

Having the reflexes of a cat is good for cats, and can also be quite useful for humans too. Lightning reflexes are a useful ability to maintain as the years go by. Thankfully there is a entire industry devoted to it.

There are not many who would suck on the end of a lorry exhaust pipe. There are a significant number who would not smoke a cigarette. Why? Obviously because they would not want to harm their lungs with the deadly pollutants. Strangely, we often do the equivalent and far worse to ourselves.

We have routines and they are important. They help us to know where we are, maintaining stability, comfort, and the general status quo. However, life is not a constant. It is dynamic, if nothing else. Routines do have a monotonous down side that they can make us too comfortable and we can easily get stuck [...]

How about speaking in public? For some, I may as well have said slay your first born,  as its too scary a concept to consider.

Brian Tracy, a time management guru, cites that what we know is sufficient to get us to today. To achieve and succeed in the future we must acquire and develop new skills and abilities. This is even more true in the current information age in which we live. The fabric of our interactions is tearing and stitching [...]

Life is made up of the cumulative sum of events. The years of childhood are often seen as the most interesting, since we are learning about the environment around us at a rapid pace. It is good to cultivate this in later years by continuing to develop and learn new things. The majority of our angst and joy is [...]

What are you eating? What have you eaten today? What do you plan to eat tomorrow? Whatever you eat will become you. As for the physical, so for the mental. Whatever your mind eats will become your beliefs, and ultimately your destiny.

Take a deep breath and relax your shoulders. Chances are they were slightly tensed. It’s not a conscious tightening of the shoulders or furrowing of the brow, but when realising our state it is quite noticeable. Relax. How?