Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
Published on Wednesday, 29 April 2009 17:10 | | 
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It seems that new diets come and go with almost the same regularity as the passing of the seasons. Whether it’s low carb, or low fat, cabbage soup, or south beach, each different diet regime promises a sophisticated new way of solving people’s weight gain problems, writes Louise Ellis.
Simple calorie counting is now becoming an increasingly popular approach to weight loss, giving people more freedom and control over their lifestyle. Many new websites are springing up to help us monitor our daily intake.
Published on Thursday, 30 April 2009 19:00 | | |
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Growing old doesn't have to mean the decline in one's mental powers, as the remarkable Rita Levi Montalcini proves
By Vida Adamoli
On April 22, 2009, Rita Levi Montalcini, her white hair elegantly coifed and wearing a smart navy blue suit, raised a glass of sparkling wine to celebrate her 100th birthday. An Italian neurologist, in 1986 she shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with American Stanley Cohen for discovering mechanisms that regulate the growth of cells and organs.
Addressing those gathered to honour her centenary, she declared, ’At the age of one hundred, I have a mind that is superior — thanks to experience — than when I was twenty.’
Published on Tuesday, 28 April 2009 19:00 | | |
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Drawing on a variety of sources, including Buddhist teachings, life-coach David Hare offers his personal Top Ten definitions. (Plus a bonus.)
Happiness is:
1. the purpose of your life (too many people think their main purpose is just to survive).
2. the soundtrack of your mind and the tune in your heart, WHATEVER is happening in your life. Stop and listen, there is always a soundtrack - is it excitement, hope, love? Or anxiety, regret, resentment, frustration?
Published on Saturday, 23 August 2008 19:00 | |
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'She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs...'
'His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer.'
'Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.'
'The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.'
Published on Sunday, 26 April 2009 18:00 | |
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Published on Saturday, 25 April 2009 18:00 | | |
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With so many climate scientists predicting global meltdown within our life-time, some individuals are taking radical steps to ensure they have the necessary survival skills to cope in the event of a major crisis, writes Julia Stephenson
Neil Strauss, author of best-selling men’s dating manual, The Game, was so shocked by the Lord of the Flies type anarchy that sprung up in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans that he has since reinvented himself as a survivalist and written a timely new book, Emergency - one man’s story of a dangerous world and how to stay alive in it.
'All it would take,' he says, 'is one war, one riot, one dirty bomb, one natural disaster, one economic catastrophe, one vial containing one virus to bring it all smashing down.'
Published on Friday, 24 April 2009 18:00 | |
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Sometimes we need advice, other times we’d like to offer it.
Either way we benefit. Horsesmouth is an informal mentoring network where you
can request a mentor or propose to be one.
Advice on offer ranges from learning, law, career and lifestyle to relationships, mental health issues, passions and beliefs. The good news is it’s safe and it’s free.