Healthy behaviour: Friendship
Making and maintaining friends. | June 2003 issue 1. Aways be friendly to everyone; experiment excessively. 2. Surround yourself at home and at work with pictures and memories of friends. 3. Listen to friends' dreams and try and do everything you can to make them yours. 4. Always have the feeling Read More...
It's not sexy being green
A sense of fun is your best strategy for changing the worldJay Walljasper | March 2006 issue Sooner or later every idealist, activist and anyone else interested in changing the world comes face to face with a hard fact: Most people aren’t idealists and activists. There are only a few Gandhis and Read More...
Healthy behaviour: Silliness
Getting silly, a guide.| June 2003 issue 1. Laugh in public at least three times a day in every imaginable setting, especially wherever your inner voice says 'not here'. You are standing in line at the checkout counter and… 2. Practice being totally crazy with children. At least once a week go to Read More...
Healthy behaviour: Smile!
Laughing matters.Patch Adams | June 2003 issue The first time I saw him he was wearing a rubber nose, a multi-coloured print shirt, and a polka-dot tie over yellow balloon pants held up by suspenders. Beneath the rubber nose was an elaborate handlebar moustache; on the back of his head, a ponytail Read More...
Healthy exercise: Chi Neng
Chi Neng is a meditation in moving. Dr. Pang Ming | June 2003 issue To be healthy one must exercise regularly. Like the traditional Eastern yoga techniques, the Chinese Chi Neng is a very effective approach to getting exercise. Practiced by roughly100 million Chinese, Chi Neng is a type of moving Read More...
Healthy thinking: Praying
Praying has a healing power.Larry Dossey | June 2003 issue A study by the Californian cardiologist Randolf Byrd helped inspire Larry Dossey to get involved in the healing power of prayer. In 1988 Byrd studied 393 heart patients. They were randomly divided into two groups using a double-blind Read More...
When bad art is good art
Now that we can make a 'perfect' design with a few mouse clicks the industrialised world is hankering for 'imperfect' designs. Artist and composer David Byrne on the importance of bad art. David Byrne | June 2003 issue Bad design is good design. And tasteful good design, likewise, is bad. Not Read More...
Editor's letter
Contagious enthusiasm is what creates progressJurriaan Kamp | April 2006 issue When I was young, I used to have a pair of slippers with leather soles. The upper part was a colourful pattern of knitted wool. Those leather soles were important. They meant I could slide along the slippery wood floors Read More...
Just do it
It is a misconception that meditation is difficult Tijn Touber | April 2006 issue “Everyone says I should meditate. All spiritual books end with the advice to take time for meditation. But no one tells you how!” The young man who stood before me was completely stressed out. For months he had Read More...
How to move a tree
Why attempting the impossible is always the right thing to do. | April 2008 issue Early one morning in a park, I came across a man who, for some reason, had harnessed himself to a tree. For a moment, it looked as if he was trying to move the tree to another place, maybe drag it home for his front Read More...