A friend recently shared an article about Suzanne Simard, a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. Simard, as part of her doctorate thesis, demonstrated that some trees, which often grow together in the wild, trade nutrients. Essentially her research challenged the notion that scientists have traditionally held, that forests […]
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I discovered yet another new word this week… Skychology! Yes, it really is a ‘thing’. It’s the practice of intentionally looking up at the sky for a few minutes each day, to improve mental health. The phrase was first coined by phsychologist and wellbeing coach, Paul Conway, in his 2019 study: Skychology – an interpretative
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I love how nature can be completely bonkers! Some time ago Michael and I were out and about in the car when we saw some Sulphur-crested Cockatoos in distress. It seemed they’d got tangled up in some cables hanging over the road. They were dangling from their feet, flapping their wings furiously and making one
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh… Read more »
Dr Astha Tomar is a psychiatrist who surprisingly says meditation doesn’t work for her… Well that’s how the story was billed… And it’s more surprising because Dr Tomar is President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. So surely she should meditate? My husband flicked me the article last week (which I
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My phone has died… Well the battery anyway. I’d noticed it lifting out of its case slightly, but never really thought anymore about it. Then my husband noticed it and said we should get it checked out. So finally on Saturday, when we were in a local shopping centre, we stopped at a mobile phone
Quite often when we head up the coast, we drop into the Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve. We love the easy 1.7km bushwalk you can do… It’s just a gold coin donation to do the walk and the staff/volunteers in the Discovery Centre are always lovely, chatty and helpful. On our latest drop in I was
Last week I attended a webinar about what’s considered a good ‘daily dose’ of meditation? It’s an interesting idea… A dose of meditation. But the words meditation, medicine and medication all share the same Latin root: medicus. Meaning ‘to cure’ and originally ‘to measure’. If you think about it, both meditation and medication seek to
A friend shared a post last night that inspired today’s blog. It’s the motivational tale about a school teacher who conducts a balloon experiment with students, to teach them an illustrative lesson about happiness. Search it and you’ll find various versions of the story, some more embellished than others, but this is the gist of
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…but what if you can’t? Walking has always been my go to form of exercise. Since I was a kid I have always loved walking. And – coming from the English countryside – it was nearly always walking in nature. In Australia I love bushwalking (not ridiculously hard walks, just literally walks in the bush).
Whatever the problem, it’s probably solved by walking… Read more »
I find this an interesting time of year. Christmas and New Year celebrations are over, schools are back and things are starting to return to ‘normal’. Maybe we’ve made New Year’s resolutions… (We are conditioned to thinking ‘new year, new start’.) It’s much easier to commit to getting up early and doing a walk everyday
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