Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

I have a Thing about control.
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Not about controlling other people. (In fact, I kind of have a Thing about not controlling other people, because I hate other people trying to control me.) And not even so much about being in control of what’s happening around me, because I figured out early on [...]

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“Eating your own dog food” is the rather disgusting expression the technology industry uses to mean using your own product.
Lately, I’ve been working on what was originally a course on emotions. (It’s now split into a free course on Simple Stress Management Techniques and another, yet-to-be-announced product). Ever since I’ve been working on it, [...]

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It’s Southern Hemisphere winter now, and the nights are longer and colder and the days are shorter and darker. There are a lot of stressed people around, trying to squeeze too much day out of too little energy. And one of the strategies they’re using, of course, is to drink a lot of coffee.
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The upstairs hall in our house has a scary.
Our two cats, who used to lie in the middle of the hall perfectly comfortably, have taken to dashing through it at top speed as if something is about to jump out and eat them. We have no idea what happened, but somehow or other they’ve developed [...]

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Do you find yourself doing the same things again and again, and feel like there’s nothing you can do about it? Are you just driven to repeat patterns that don’t make any sense? It’s a common human problem, and over the next few weeks I want to explore one model of why it happens and [...]

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