Zen and the Art of Change
“Unhappy childhoods will kill you as an adult.” – Anon Here is the article I promised on how to deal with Toxic Stress. The previous article described what Toxic Stress was and how you identify it. Just as a reminder. The starting point was that there was a series of research programmes that identified […]
Read More How to deal with Toxic Stress“Unhappy childhoods will kill you as an adult.” – Anon We all know that how we are treated as children has a profound effect on us as adults. If you are surrounded by people that smoke; you are more likely to smoke. Likewise with drink and drugs. We also know that unhappy experiences in […]
Read More Toxic stress and its impact on you“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.” ― Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart I like to understand the theory and the science behind how we think, act and how our brains work. […]
Read More How your brain is affected by stress“He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone’s got a place in the queue, you can’t get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.” ― Scott Lynch, […]
Read More Standing in line and Mindfulness“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has […]
Read More Kindness, Resilience and Mindfulness“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut”. – Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! As I have written before, I practice Mindfulness on an almost daily basis. I have been practicing and experiencing the benefits for the past eighteen months. I have found the ability to be fully […]
Read More What’s been missing in my Mindfulness practice?
Martin Summerhayes 