Making Your Own Decisions
Once you get to adulthood, you generally like to feel you’re calling the shots. But are we in a position to decide anything at all of our own free will as individual agents?
‘Mind-body’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life
The following articles are related to ‘Mind-body’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life.
To Be A Machine
The human urge to transcend physical existence and death is a powerful one. But is the application of so much human ingenuity in this direction a good idea?
A Cure for Pain?
It seems not only that everyone is in pain, but that there’s an underlying assumption that we shouldn’t be, creating an extra layer of suffering on top of the pain itself.
When Words Aren’t The Point – Reiki and Counselling
The Reiki system shares a foundation with person centred therapy: the practitioner does not ‘do something to’ or give something to the client, but makes conditions that facilitate people’s own natural growth or healing.
Luck Swallows Everything
Are we ultimately responsible for who we are and the choices we make? Can we choose to be the person who is able to make them? And if not, does this really change anything in the way we live?
The Heart Sutra and the Neuroscientist
The neurosurgeon and the Buddhist practitioner are both intimate with the reality that between the atoms of the electrochemical dance of the brain lies an emptiness of anything at all which is solid and unchangeable, anything on which to lean. How to live in such a world?
Too Much Fat Can Weigh on the Mind
Chronic inflammation associated with a high BMI appears to be a risk factor not only for heart disease, cardiovascular disease, and other disorders, but also for impairments in cognitive functioning.