Reading Time: 5 minutesStress Management is one of our 5 Circles of Health, our approach to forging happy, healthy, hard to kill humans. We know how important a healthy mind is in creating a healthy body, and vice versa. Stress management has a multitude of faces. We can manage our physical stress by applying the correct stimuli andContinue reading “Box Breathing – The Cheat Code to Stress Management”
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Clothes To Move In
Reading Time: 5 minutesHow to set your body free each and every day to make movement even more of an option. I am very particular about the clothes I wear. Anybody who knows me is laughing right now. I’m not talking stylistically, although I am immensely stylish, the world just hasn’t caught up with my sense of vogueContinue reading “Clothes To Move In”
The Eight-fold Year – Reconnecting with Nature
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs the sun rose this morning, marking the traditional date allocated to the old Celtic festival of Bealtaine, Kelley and I (and the hound, of course) were already out in the wild to watch the glowing orb ascend to the heavens, thereby marking the start of the light half of the year. As is typicalContinue reading “The Eight-fold Year – Reconnecting with Nature”
Wonderful Wild Garlic Pesto Recipe
Reading Time: 5 minutesWild Garlic, or Bear Garlic and Ramsoms as it is also known, is one of springtime’s superstars. You generally can smell it before you see it. That wonderful, pungent aroma seeping through deciduous woodlands, promises a sensory bombardment of enticing odours and spicy taste sensations. Sending up new shoots from early March and flowering fromContinue reading “Wonderful Wild Garlic Pesto Recipe”
Nurturing the Ember – The Art of Habit Forming
Reading Time: 5 minutesToday is the Winter Solstice; the shortest day and longest night. Throughout much of the world this is a time to honour the light. We gather together around firelight and candle flame, filling our homes with twinkling lights and reflective baubles. We remember the warmth of the sun on our skin. We celebrate the opportunityContinue reading “Nurturing the Ember – The Art of Habit Forming”
Memento Mori – Death and the Art of Mindful Living
Reading Time: 7 minutes“Death twitches my ear; ‘Live’ he says…’I’m coming’.” Virgil The one and only thing we can have absolute confidence in is that, without a shadow of a doubt, one day we will die. It doesn’t matter whether you are rich or poor, famous or unknown, happy or sad, at some point you will shuffle offContinue reading “Memento Mori – Death and the Art of Mindful Living”
Life Lessons From My Dog – Part 3
Reading Time: 7 minutesThat’s right. The Hairy Sage is back from the mountains with more wise advice. He’s like Marcus Aurelius, if Marcus could lick his own balls. My dog is now older, wiser, and positively vibrating with the kind of Zen-like insights that only come about once in a lifetime. And here are the lessons he hasContinue reading “Life Lessons From My Dog – Part 3”
The Thing, the Anxiety Shark, and the Dark Compass
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Thing. I feel it coming. I can sense the approaching presence descend on me like clods of damp earth pressing onto my chest. I struggle to breathe. I struggle to cry for help. I am suffocating in my own body. Anxiety is a dreadful affliction. I have always described it as feeling like IContinue reading “The Thing, the Anxiety Shark, and the Dark Compass”
Carrying Excess Weight – The Ancestral Art of Rucking
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhat is the most obvious distinction between humans and the other Great Apes? Some might say it’s our ability to reason and our intelligence. To this I ask: “Have you not seen the news recently?” A more obvious distinction would be our Bipedalism, or our ability to walk upright on 2 legs. There are manyContinue reading “Carrying Excess Weight – The Ancestral Art of Rucking”