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When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

Does the mind have more power over physical health than we realise? I tend to think so.

Are You Busy?

What’s really going on behind the busy persona, is it healthy, is it productive – maybe not! Read on for Mind Dumps, Big Chunks and other ‘busy’ reducing tips!

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How To Be Idle!! Is Laziness Misunderstood?

Calling all deep thinkers and philosophers of life, lets ponder on what is means to be idle, attitudes to laziness and whether we’ve got the whole notion completely wrong!!

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The other virus, Affluenza. Is society sick?

Affluenza the status and consumption virus plaguing society, can we spot the symptoms and help reduce the spread?

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Time Out: Give Yourself a Break

Are you due for some time out? I’m talking about taking a break, getting away, an escape from the daily grind – a much needed mental and perhaps a physical rest. Maybe some time alone to flop around with no demands on your attention. The freedom to think, read, write, […]

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Strange dreams when you’re busy sleeping

The mysterious business of sleeping and dreaming is full of unanswered questions, like the meaning of dreams, and how we can be deeply asleep when the brain is wide awake!

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Fear Kills

You’d be surprised what fear can do to your health!

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Childhood Before Social Media

The Modern way is the ‘logged on way’, social media seems to have gripped society into a tight vice. We’re living in an era of ‘cyber kids’, who hang out with cyber friends, talk cyber talk and travel for free throughout a never ending cyber world. Social media marketing is […]

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The Prisons You Build for Yourself

Do you ever feel trapped by your doubts and fears – like you just can’t move past them? Are you stuck in a psychological rut? Get out of your prison….the metal bars are your own anxieties, your own thoughts. Give yourself a ‘get out of jail free card’ by shifting the way you think.

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Life’s A Beach

Like the tide, life’s moments come and go Sometimes fast, sometimes slow Sometimes gently, sometimes with intensity Like the infinite horizon, life’s possibilities are endless The choices we can make, and actions we choose to take Like the grains of sand, we are many, spread far and wide, the human […]

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It’s Disappointing, but it’s your Issue

Sometimes you struggle to recognise that when someone lets you down, it’s not necessarily about you. It’s not ‘because’ of you or anything you did or didn’t/should or shouldn’t have done. Very often, it’s about them – their baggage, their mentality and their maturity level. In effect, they have let […]

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You Know You Need A Break When….. (10 Tell Tale Signs)🤯

We all have moments where we’re out of steam, lacking a bit of zest or doing silly things that we”d likely scoff at if it was anyone else, so try and take the hint the next time you find yourself pouring fruit juice on your cereal!

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Never A Dull Moment: Entering The Fourth Age

The notion of a fourth age, what an interesting and very relevant topic!! I’m probably not the only one noticing the not so subtle increase in self service machines and reduction in humanly manned check out tills in shops/banks/post offices these days, or the general creeping momentum around all things […]

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Because

Just sharing a few of tonight’s random thoughts. Writing it down and reading it back really got me thinking and re-affirming a few things I want to do more. You persist Because it’s worth it You invest Because the harvest will be plentiful You try Because otherwise you’ll never know […]

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Nothing

Sometimes we need time to simply be, without doing. Time to give our mind and body a rest, soak up a moment of nothing.

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Money

It comes, it goes Sometimes it flows Why we don’t abolish it, nobody knows It fuels emotions and creates many woes Invest it wisely and sometimes it grows Share if you care, share if you can Think about your future and start making a plan Money changes lives, creates competition, […]

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Autumn

As with earthly seasons, life also has it’s seasons. We reach points in life where we instinctively know that something needs to change. It’s time for this, that or the other. Autumn is probably the season that gives me this feeling the most, particularly September; maybe it’s because of the […]

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Until

When I stop and think of how much of our lives we spend ‘waiting’ ‘anticipating’ and ‘enduring’ until….. it hit home just how much weight we carry because of this. The scales are tipped heavily toward the ‘until’ rather than the ‘now’. Until Friday Until payday Until that holiday Until […]

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Keep on pushing on

Just a little motivational rant to help you get going or keep you going whilst striving for your goals.

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Change

Just my opinion – but I think we all need change. We need to stretch, challenge ourselves and add new experiences to our repertoire. If we don’t get a healthy dose of change every so often, we can begin to feel stale and uninspired – perhaps a bit like a […]

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Texas Floods, Trump Tantrums and Terrorist Attacks

Just a few more random thoughts….. Disasters, controversies and tensions seem to be spiralling out of control across the mainstream media, more and more these days – I can’t keep up with it all. One thing after another, all over the globe. Is it just me or do problems seem […]

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Brainwashed. Challenging The Myth of Black Inferiority

Exploring thoughts on black identity.

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Only When We’re On Holiday: 22 Things We Do!

There are definitely a few things about us that change when we’re on holiday, (apart from reduced stress and being blissfully relaxed) and if we’re honest with ourselves, we know it. Here are a few I think I can hold my hands up to: Talking to and smiling at strangers, […]

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Pedestrian Rage: road runners, cyclists, dodgers and dancers

So maybe the term isn’t so common yet but pedestrian rage is definitely a ‘thing’, I see it every day in London. 😤 Tutting, huffing and puffing at slow moving buggy pushers, the five friends who walk side by side taking up the entire width of the pavement, the sound […]