Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It enables us to look back & say "Oh wow, that was a complete waste of a day.. or 10 years." Wouldn't it be useful to know in advance if something was going to be pointless? Or how about just at the time? Even cutting that wasted 6 months back to …
For January I tried an experiment. No soap when washing myself. Here are my results & thoughts: The first week or so is the worst. My body was obviously flushing something out. I don't know what, but it smelt pretty bad. I had a lot of showers per day. The first couple of weeks I also …
February 13, 2010 – 07:49
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By Si
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Posted in health
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I'm not really a fan of New Year's resolutions. How many do you end up keeping? However, a new year's experiment — where you try something new, just for January? Ahh, that's awesome. So, a few years back I read a book a day for all of Jan. That was.. entertaining, although I didn't do …
January 4, 2010 – 04:00
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By Si
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Posted in health
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Two interesting things happened to me this week. The first, let's call "Event X", was that someone made me very, very angry. There's no value in getting into the specifics, but I've wracked my brain & been unable to come up with a worse thing that anyone has ever done to me. There probably is, I …
Meditation typically brings to mind images of sitting in full lotus on a mountain top somewhere, head in the clouds, a slight levitation visible. Ever meet anyone that's done that? pic by pureenergy No, me either. Fortunately, if you step back & look at meditation as a concept, it's really just aiming to do two things: …
I was catching up on some light reading this morning — reading The Economist (the funniest magazine I know), when I came across this article, which points out that physical displays of pride & shame are hardwired at an evolutionary level. Ie, they're not learned behaviours. This was discovered by watching athletes that were blind …
Post humanism is, essentially, what it will be like to be "more than human" — ie, what are we going to evolve to next. This could be purely biological, purely mechanical, some kind of nano-tech, or a combination of the lot. Transhumanism is more or less synonomous with "human enhancement". This is the stepping stone to …
"If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind?" — Buddha I heard this quote the other day (thanks @tinybuddha), and it hit like a ton of bricks. pic by Trove Designs When I was growing up, I was always told "If you haven't got anything nice …
I've recently been introduced to the benefits of LSA. That is: 3 parts Linseed 2 parts Sunflower seeds 1 part Almonds This was used by Sandra Cabot as a liver cleansing diet (although originally put together by a couple of other Australians, in the 80's). Ok, so that's great. Soak, grind & add that to my diet, …
July 18, 2008 – 12:53
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By Si
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Posted in health
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I'm coming to the conclusion that the closer a food is to being alive, the better it is for us to eat it — no ground breaking realisations here of course — just important to realise these things for oneself. The antithesis of this being: the more processed, complexly combined & further from this natural …
July 14, 2008 – 23:49
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By Si
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Posted in health, raw
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