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Study of the erm, week – Lottery Winner V Accident Victims Happiness
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/690806 Bit of an old one like, but still pretty interesting. According to the clever people that carried out the research in the linked study above; the actual ridiculous happiness felt immediately after winning the lottery, reduces the pleasure obtained from the simpler things we do day to day – like having a cuppa. After several…
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The Law of Non Judgement
So whether you’re reading Deepchap Chopra, or some other spiritual guru’s book, one of the underlying themes appears to be that judgement, just causes you suffering. In addition to what I have read, I’ve also noticed for many years, that the people that tend to judge the most, are generally absolute grade A bellends themselves.…
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Kava Kava Tea for Anxiety
As someone who has an interest in herbs, and nutrition in general, and is also one of those left-wing anti pharmaceutical types, I was very interested to read about Kava Kava AKA Piper methysticum. There are shed loads of studies showing that it significantly reduces anxiety; and depression. Safety concerns appear limited to liver toxicity if…
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Kratom Tea Review
Apparently it’s really effective for relaxation, and headaches, but you have to be really responsible with it. It’s supposed to have a similar effect to codeine (I read that codeine is physically addictive after 11 days of continuous use as well, so that’s off the proverbial table). Kratom can apparently make you constipated, and if you…
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Yoga Infographic
Nice little infographic from Furniture@Work The one thing that does my tree in about working in an office all day, is how stiff my glutes up to my neck are. The stiff neck can give me pretty bad headaches. I’d recommend moving about as much as possible, and demanding an assessment from an Occupational Therapist;…
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The Power of Now Summary & Review
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle Great book – quite intense; I wouldn’t recommend it for your first spiritual psychological type book. A better book to start thing with would be Dale Carnegie’s Stop Worrying and Start Living book, for example. “YOU ARE NOT YOUR MIND” – is the general jist of the book.…