Binaural Beat

Being made redundant is not just about money and what money can buy. It is often the psychological effect which takes the biggest toll.  One moment you know who you are and what you do and what you mean to other people, and then in a flash it can feel as if you are nobody.  [...]

Patience as we all know is a virtue.  Impatience is a frustrating feeling to have to contend with, and we have all experienced it at some time or another.  If you cast your mind back as far as it will go you will no doubt remember times as a child when you felt incredibly impatient.  [...]

It is extremely difficult to deal with people who have a predisposition to assume that the World is against them.  It is however, even more difficult for the person who has to live with this belief.    We all of us, perhaps, understand how this feels to a certain degree.  Everyone has wondered, at some [...]

What types of things frustrate you?  For me, it tends to be the things which I cannot control, or do not understand.  New computer applications, washing machines which go on the blink for no unknown reason, cars which just don’t start; these are sorts of the things which really “bug” me personally.  The fact that [...]

How many people do you know who are clearly discontented?  Their body language shouts out the fact that they just aren’t happy with their lot; they talk about being happy when such and such finally happens.  Do you feel this way yourself?   We live in a very pressurized world; a lot is expected of [...]

Many people seek to be “fixed” in some way.  It happens in many different ways.  In golf, people go to the professional looking for their swing to be fixed.  If you suffer from a fear or a phobia you seek out ways in which you might be fixed.   But when you seek a fix [...]

My mum cuts articles out of the newspaper for my brother and I and gives us quite a stack of reading most weeks.  She is, as my brother says “spot on”; she knows exactly what will be of interest to us and she saves both of us trawling through papers in search of what is [...]

I have just encountered something which to my mind is a prime example of consumerism gone completely mad.  Whilst passing through the security section at the airport I noticed a sign which read something along the lines of “only place empty capsules here”, the sign being strategically placed above a waste bin.    “Capsules?” I [...]