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”
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 Cuddlier Gentleman’s Guide to Chafing
Reading Time: 8 minutesWARNING: This post will give you more information than you ever wanted to know. We’ll be discussing the dark, moist places of chafage hell. If you are concerned about ever looking Glenn in the eyes again DO NOT READ ON. You have been warned. When I think of a mountain runner the image of theContinue reading “The Cuddlier Gentleman’s Guide to Chafing”
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”
The Wild Life Guide to Training Outdoors in Winter
Reading Time: 10 minutesI’m well known for stripping off and going for a cold dip whenever the opportunity arises. I even have an emergency dip kit in both of our vehicles for fear of not being able to take an impromptu plunge. I love cold exposure for all the benefit I talk of here, but the real truth,Continue reading “The Wild Life Guide to Training Outdoors in Winter”