Category Archives: health

Dealing To Fear

Fear is very simple. Our usual reaction to fear, anxiety, in fact any "negative" or "unpleasant" emotion is to avoid it. To either push it down or try to escape it (booze, sex, TV etc). And this works! Well, kinda. All it really does is push that emotion back down again, but, like an unkillable hydra, it …

25/Jun/2011 – 16:36 | By Si | Posted in healing, health | Comments (2)

Stop Bashing Your Head Against The Wall, Dipshit!

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 …

10/Jun/2010 – 16:01 | By Si | Posted in health, life | Comments (9)

No Soap: The Verdict

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 …

13/Feb/2010 – 07:49 | By Si | Posted in health | Comments (9)

The No Soap Experiment

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 …

04/Jan/2010 – 04:00 | By Si | Posted in health | Comments (25)

Anger is Stupid

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 …

02/Nov/2009 – 14:02 | By Si | Posted in health, self-improvement | Comments (4)

Meditation for HeadBangers

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: …

04/Apr/2009 – 05:27 | By Si | Posted in health, life | Comments (8)

Brain Controls Body Controls Brain

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 …

15/Oct/2008 – 06:06 | By Si | Posted in health, self-improvement | Comments (6)

Two Approaches to Trans-Humanism (Who Wants To Live Forever?)

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 …

03/Sep/2008 – 11:20 | By Si | Posted in health, life, self-improvement | Comments (2)

The Importance Of Speech

"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 …

15/Aug/2008 – 01:16 | By Si | Posted in communication, health | Comments (12)

LSA, Linseed, Linseed Meal: Traps for Young Players

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, …

18/Jul/2008 – 12:53 | By Si | Posted in health | Comments (9)