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

Even if you’re not working and simply getting on with the business of having fun, there are so many details that need attending to in...

Only relatively recently have we as a species given prominence to the so-called rational mind over the intuitive mind. The trend...

Accessing the subconscious is mostly about being able to direct your attention to the base of the midbrain region. Once you’re able to...

I’ve always been one for reframing as a way to break the hold of the trance of the everyday, which otherwise constantly threatens to numb...

If considered merely as a data-processing unit, data coming in through the sense organs and being synthesized in the brain leading to...

We talk about walking a path, as if we’re engaging in a linear process, whereas in fact, the path only ever leads inwards, always urging...

It’s a mystery this path we tread and there’s no way of knowing where it’s going to lead us, other than at some point we’ll be dropping...

Though the ancient Taoists weren’t able to calculate exact speeds, they knew the earth was round, not flat, and knew we were in fast...

You don’t have to worry about anything. You merely have to stay alert and do what you have to do. You merely have to stay centered and...

If you’re asking yourself that today and expecting to find the answer by wondering about how or if to change the externals (status,...

With the external world in such a state of flux, slamming you randomly between elation and deflation at every turn, it’s fairly crucial...

Walking along yesterday I was contemplating how you have to dare to have a vision and you have to dare to sustain that vision, especially...

Stop and examine the parameters of your professional, social and personal intercourse with others and you’ll notice how at some level the...

No matter how far from the ideal you perceive yourself to be right now, according to your current stage in the process of realising and...

There’s a choice in every moment between being centered, and losing yourself in the drama you’re constantly inventing about life, which...

In any given moment you have a choice between losing yourself in the drama you’re creating about your life, and coming back into your...

Watching the DVD of Down with Love the other day – brilliant sets and wardrobe – a parody retro pointing back to about 1966 according to...

Humanity is clearly in a madness phase. Naturally I confide this in you assuming you’re relatively unscathed by it till now, and that you...

What a balancing act it is. Then again, what isn’t? The Taoist approach to good balancing is not even to concentrate on how well you’re...