By attending to the hands and forearms, by getting them to relax deeply, it automatically increases your ability to let go...

Choosing something off the menu, do you ever find yourself dithering? Do you ever find yourself having a disproportionate emotional...

One of the effects of being in close proximity to millions of people all the time, which is how it is for the majority of the world’s...

Worrying about what other people think of you is hardwired. However it doesn’t and mustn’t prevent you being, thinking and living...

Constipation is a horrible thing and most uncomfortable. This so, whether referring to the bowels or to the conditions of your life in...

Fear, or precisely, its modern cousin, anxiety, is very clever. It has to be or you’d soon discover it was just an illusion and then it...

Every now and then I like to throw in one of the really important sublimely life-changing techniques from the vast Taoist pantheon and...

Two main areas where patience is required: waiting for things to happen and in your personal development – as in patience with yourself...

By altering your internal stance, the way you're lining yourself up inside, you completely alter your experience of the external world....

Reach behind you, feel for the big knob of the 7th cervical vertebra and press into the gap between it and the next one up. As you do,...

Joy arises naturally when you stop doing yourself in/down. As soon as you ease off and congratulate yourself for doing so well – well...

Everyone wants it – everyone feels diminished without it – most seek it by amassing external triumphs and visible victory spoil but in...

The Tao, the background presence behind/beneath/above material reality spontaneously manifests in/via an infinite variety of myriad...

Acupressure, softer older sister of acupuncture, involves pressing intelligently on various points lying along the various meridians...

In honour of John Kells, my esteemed, long-standing Tai Chi teacher I’d like to tell you about one of his most powerful ‘levers’ for...

By pressing the points I’m about to describe to you, using intelligent pressure levels, i.e. being sensitive and listening through your...

Your hands are the instruments with which you handle the material plane, both actually and metaphorically. By releasing blocked chi in...

1 - Clear your head So you’re sitting there, head all full of what you have to do, who you are, what the world is, how you’re doing in...

Having a good worry can be highly useful. This apparently goes counter to everything I’ve previously said. But hear me out. For some...

According to the Taoist way of seeing things mastery in any of the arts require you to develop your listening skills. Being an artist of...