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The National Snow Breakdown: Britain's recent brush with snow leaves me wondering what would happen to our infrastructure if something more significant actually happened. Tags: public health, relationships, responsibility, society bit.ly/2oRgvkB

Sense of Self and the Traffic in Kathmandu: If I am an individual whose rights and autonomy are sacred, then someone else's path crossing mine can feel like an infringement, even a cause of anger. But what if I feel like a part of a collective whole? … bit.ly/2sZ9VxH

The Mass Killing Meme: What Can We Do?: My sense is that the cases of young terrorists and young school shooters have strong similarities in terms of underlying anger, hurt, and other feelings, coupled with an inability to communicate those feelings an… bit.ly/2EB0FB2

Stop Suppressing Your Potential: How can we best tweak and optimise our mental machinery for peak performance? Drugs and some forms of meditation are offered as means to the goal. But what if 'savant' skills were actually in some sense our mind's defau… bit.ly/2Bp9vDd

Creative Automatic Writing: Getting Past the Censor and Generating Energy: Our internal dialogues plan, worry, criticise, and take up a lot of mental energy. If we are finding life stressful, writing can be an ideal place to stage an intervention and r… bit.ly/2E6ULeY

Intuitive Painting: A Dialogue With Your Heart: Intuitive painting often starts with a question that can't be answered in words. In the dance of form and colour, the sensual enjoyment of the paint, the excitement of not knowing what is coming next and … bit.ly/2nj8ipl

Can I Love You and Hate You at the Same Time?: Are pain and anger in themselves toxic forces or violent acts, that negate the love we feel for those who are close to us? Does this uneasy sense of contradiction cause us to hold those 'negative' emotions… bit.ly/2rrGfZb

The Heart Sutra and the Neuroscientist: The neurosurgeon and the Buddhist practitioner are both intimate with the reality that between the atoms of the electrochemical dance of the brain lies an emptiness of anything at all which is solid and unchangea… bit.ly/2Dgl159

Creative Regeneration: Bathing in my own attention, my breath, exercising the 'coming back' muscle whenever I get distracted, is what I call basic meditation. Every moment in this state is a moment of creative regeneration. Tags: anxiety and stress, m… bit.ly/2meaJc0

New Year and Its Pressures: At New Year there seems to be a lot of pressure -- to have a good time, to make New Year's eve a perfect night, and then to top it all with a fresh start in life. Does it have to be this way? Tags: anxiety and stress, meani… bit.ly/2q9tjXr

Going at Your Own Pace: When it feels like everything is speeding up around us, working against the tide and putting pressure on ourselves to force our own pace to match rarely offers the best way forward. Tags: anxiety and stress, mindful awareness bit.ly/2oN3Gem

Tips for Living the Fully Conscious Life: Often, we're only half-listening or half-awake when we do things. That's the essence of life on autopilot. But there have been some truly remarkable souls among us who lived with greater than typical awareness.… bit.ly/2A9A5g5

Not Moving the Place Where it Hurts: Instead of tackling a problem 'head on', what if we just avoid it? This sounds counter-intuitive, but I don't mean pretending the problem doesn't exist; quite the contrary. Tags: mindful awareness, therapy bit.ly/2AI61vL

The Inner Abuser: Why do we tolerate comments from ourselves, which we would not tolerate from anyone else? Indeed, why do we sometimes allow whole running commentaries on our way of being to take up every second of the day and a significant amount of o… bit.ly/2AAKF3K

The Sudden Desire to End Therapy: Resistance or Wisdom?: Often when clients suddenly decide they want to end therapy, therapists are encouraged by the 'therapy culture' to think of it as some kind of resistance to the process. I wonder, is this necessar… bit.ly/2zk7Uii

Dealing With ‘Old’ Feelings, and the ‘Inner Child’ Cringe: When you realise that overwhelming feelings can belong… bit.ly/2morS5A

Terrealuma: Finding the Natural State: As a child, playing in the garden, the blissful absence of having to think… bit.ly/2hh0nZX

It Ain’t What You Do, It’s the Way That You Do It: I've been struck this week in my work by how important the att… bit.ly/2zhh6Dw

The Power of a Simple Question: What Do I Want?: What do you want? It's a simple question but one that we are som… bit.ly/2yLMn0j