It’s hard to walk the talk with sleep isn’t it. Sleep specialists and researchers agree that nearly all adults of working age need 7-9 hours sleep every night. A little less after your 65th birthday and more in your teen …
Today I took my daughter to visit her friend where she stayed a few hours. It’s likely this is the last time we’’ll do that for a while. The friend’s mother offered to bring my daughter home later in the …
This morning a caller phoned my local radio station and said that there were no seedlings in his local Bunnings store because that had become the latest frontier of panic buying. We have seen this happening for weeks across the …
The Victorian Auditor General tabled his report in March on his audit into Bullying and Harassment in the Health Sector. There are 12 recommendations made with the aim of improving the OHS of health workers and paramedics in Victoria. …
There are so many answers to this question. Many of the answers draw on extensive habit forming research. This story is more about experience than research.
On the weekend I watched my daughter and lots of other children and …
There has been a great deal of research in recent years looking at how meditation affects the brain and what in fact is the neuroscience of mindful meditation.
There have now been two meta-analysis of all this research in an …
If you were present more often what would change?
Recently I was watching Australia’s Got Talent with my children when I was privileged to witness Mick the Poet recite an Australian poem. My apologies to Mick as I have not …
The benefits of mindfulness meditation for business leaders are increasingly appreciated and confirmed by empirical research. Executives and high performing professionals increasingly use meditation to manage stress, maintain strategic focus, enhance cognitive performance, promote emotional intelligence, and improve interpersonal …
This morning while I was meditating (a formal mindful practice) I noticed that my elbows were up on the arms of the chair, my hands were clasped and my shoulders were up around my ears! Then I noticed I was …