Archive for September, 2007
I’ll Never Waste Three Years of My Life Again
I made this vow after leaving a job I had been in for three years. It was a pretty good job too - working in the national office of christian-based youth and community work organisation. The work I did made a difference to our staff and the people I worked with were good to get […]
Apologies
Apologies for no posts lately. I’ve been down with a particularly nasty cold. I’m either on the mend or getting a cough at the moment.
Hopefully I won’t get the cough and be back on deck next week.
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Is Cleaner Healthier?
learning can do strange things
There is a theory that the rise in allergies is due to the fall in infectious diseases (due to immunisation).
Thanks, primarily to public health and then to immunisation, those of us in the west are far less likely to die of infectious diseases. Those of us who die early - […]Focussing: Eight Stages of Experience #4
This is the stage where we focus on one particular thing, before we begin interacting with it.
This may be anything from the tap to turn on to get a glass of water to the contradiction in a sophisticated philosophical argument that has taken us years to locate. It is a time of concentration and […]Counseling
This is a simple three stage approach to counseling. This process is for when someone comes to you with a problem or wanting to talk about something.
It is for the ‘normal neurotics like you and me”, not for dealing with people with serious psychiatric conditions.It avoids giving advice (a trap for any counseling approach). […]
Taxation is a Health Issue
I don’t mean just the stress caused by tax time - though this is no doubt relevant too.
Our tax systems rewards some people and falls more heavily on others.
The first example I always think of is: fertilisers and pesticides being subsidised, so organic farmers are effectively penalised.
But there are examples that affect […]Looking Around: Eight Stages of Experience #3
Our experience involves acting on our needs and desires.
And the first stage of acting is scanning.
This may take a fraction of a second (to locate a glass and the tap to get a drink of water) or a good deal longer (to find a book I want to read in a library […]
