Active Body, Healthy Mind
We all know that exercise is good for us. Exercise means we live longer and suffer from less physical illness. That is an established fact. What is less well understood…
one visit a day keeps the doctor away
We all know that exercise is good for us. Exercise means we live longer and suffer from less physical illness. That is an established fact. What is less well understood…
As a therapist that specialises in working with men, I have attracted a certain amount of media interest. At first I was flattered by the attention, after all, it gave…
Sociobiology is the branch of biology that tries to explain social behaviour, including sexual behaviour, in evolutionary terms. This book provides a great introduction. But it also does two other…
I read a couple of books recently by the peace activist and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. The focus of both books (titles given below) is the cultivation of mindfulness…
As a regular meditator, I was intrigued to read research in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology which claims that meditation makes you happy. There are two kinds of…
Australia has one of the highest rates of childhood diabetes in the world, according to a study that finds the incidence of the disease has grown about 3 per cent…