The Most Important Nutrient For Brain Health
It covers 71 per cent of the Earths surface. It makes up 73 per cent of the adult human brain. Without it, you would die within a number of weeks.…
Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid: Fact
In an ironic twist on the name, smartphones actually make us less smart – but not necessarily in the way you might imagine. According to a study carried out at…
How Happiness Can Heal Health Conditions
When you are ill, you are likely to feel pretty down-in-the dumps. You will usually feel even lower if your condition is chronic or possibly untreatable. And as time goes on,…
How to Be Happy Being Different
Much of my life, I struggled with the dilemma of wanting to be unique, but also wanting to be like everyone else. I wanted to be my own person and…
Are Modern Mindfulness Meditators Missing a Trick?
Mindfulness seems to be in fashion at the moment. Mental health and wellbeing centres are doing it. Workplace wellness programs are doing it. Even the Canadian police force is doing…
How To Run Your Brain Better
Your brain may be an amazing thing, able to process millions of bytes of information per second and make lightning-quick decisions, but did you know that your thinking tackle has…
How to Stop Yourself Failing
Why am I Failing? Feeling stuck in a rut, trapped, like you just can't imagine making a success of your life – whether you're trying to do something specific or…
How To Make ‘Happy Mistakes’
As a child, I loved watching a certain kids' TV show about art. It was presented by a softly-spoken, good-natured old guy who would demonstrate how to use watercolours or pastels, or…
Are you a Pochemuchka?
Unless you're a Russian-speaker, you probably won't know what I'm on about, but the very fact that you chose to read this blog may mean that you're a Pochemuchka anyhow.…
Make This The Year of Being Wiser
On New Years Eve we often promise ourselves all sorts of things for the coming year. Sometimes it's to lose weight, break a bad habit, stop doing something or start…