Reading Time: 7 minutesThat’s right. After reading and implementing what follows, you will be ready to order a new Black Belt for your dressing gown. Today’s golden nuggets of health related wisdom will soon become as plain as the nose on your face. First things first… Shut Your Mouth! No really, shut your mouth. If you’re not laughing,Continue reading “Nasal Breathing and Mouth Taping – The deadly art of sleepy Ninjas”
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Box Breathing – The Cheat Code to Stress Management
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”
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”
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”
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”
Born to be Wild – Adding a Feral Touch to Wellbeing
Reading Time: 8 minutesWildness has always been a part of our ethos here at Wild Life. But what does that mean and what makes a wild life ‘wild’? Before you panic buy the full Ray Mears DVD collection, we are not suggesting you give up on so-called modern civilisation, retreat to woods and spend the rest of yourContinue reading “Born to be Wild – Adding a Feral Touch to Wellbeing”