My week started off badly, but has since improved immeasurably. Some pharma company in Ecuador emailed me to say they can fix my potency problems, very cheaply. A lovely Nigerian wants to give me £6 million and all I have to do is send him my bank details. The algorithms that control my social media […]

Mindfulness and Emotion Control Most people either forget, or don’t know, that our complex human brains can be subdivided into the ‘old brain’ (sometimes known as the emotional brain) and the ‘new brain’ (sometimes called the rational brain). The old brain is genetically engineered to keep us alive – it reacts almost instantaneously to perceived […]

The concept of ‘freedom’ has different meanings for different people. Freedom means a lot for someone behind bars; for someone tending a bar when they would rather be doing something else, it may mean slightly less. Someone caught in a dysfunctional relationship might want to be ‘free’, but it is not the same kind of […]