Not everyone who drives on the road is an idiot, or a hoon as we sometimes label them in Australia. Probably 98% of your fellow motorists are decent law-abiding people like yourself. Commuter stress arises because the remaining 2% move around a lot!! If you commute for two hours a day then you will probably [...]

If the events reported in the evening news were the norm then we’d probably all want to jump off the planet. The Evening News reports extreme or highly unusual events which, fortunately, are not typical of all that is going on. Normal, joyful living rarely gets reported but for many people it sums up more [...]

A recent series of Hollywood movies has reminded us that it is possible for an asteriod the size of the Fijian Islands to collide with Planet Earth and extinguish all life. Sometime in the future this could happen. Thinking about this does not stress me because the likelihood of this happening is so remote that [...]

Although I hesitate to use the word impossible it would appear as though there are limits to what a human being can achieve. Sprinting a mile in ten seconds; spending a year on Mount Everest without clothes or food; swimming from San Francisco to Sydney … I don’t think we are likely to see these [...]

You probably think I’m joking but taking time to eat a single raisin can make a difference to your stress. The idea is not mine, but belongs to Professor Mark Williams from the University of Oxford. Professor Mark Williams has studied a technique called Mindfulness Meditation which assists people to learn to focus their attention. [...]