Meditation Makes You Smarter

Want to improve your health in as little as 15 minutes a day without doing anything? Give some thought to meditation. Doing nothing’s actually the whole point of it. Training your mind not to do anything seems paradoxically to do quite a lot. Not only does it...

Kyrgystan

Here on the edge of the world our group stands arms akimbo watching, listening to last gasps exhaled. Our last spare, the driver’s side rear tyre is slowly expiring. This is our second puncture in two hours and we had one yesterday as well. We have no compressor...

Tai Chi Gentle On Diabetes

Tai chi may help people with type 2 diabetes improve their physical and mental wellbeing, say Australian researchers.Grasping a sparrow’s tail doesn’t work up as much of a sweat as it sounds.That’s the beauty of the ancient Chinese martial art of tai...

Five Ways To Brighten A Dull Day

By George Fripley – posted Friday, 26 September 2008 Life in the public service, or any other bureaucracy for that matter, can have its boring moments when nothing appears to be happening. This may happen quite a lot if you are implementing the five paradigms of...