The National Snow Breakdown: Britain's recent brush with snow leaves me wondering what would happen to our infrastructure if something more significant actually happened. Tags: public health, relationships, responsibility, society bit.ly/2oRgvkB

Sense of Self and the Traffic in Kathmandu: If I am an individual whose rights and autonomy are sacred, then someone else's path crossing mine can feel like an infringement, even a cause of anger. But what if I feel like a part of a collective whole? … bit.ly/2sZ9VxH

The Mass Killing Meme: What Can We Do?: My sense is that the cases of young terrorists and young school shooters have strong similarities in terms of underlying anger, hurt, and other feelings, coupled with an inability to communicate those feelings an… bit.ly/2EB0FB2

Stop Suppressing Your Potential: How can we best tweak and optimise our mental machinery for peak performance? Drugs and some forms of meditation are offered as means to the goal. But what if 'savant' skills were actually in some sense our mind's defau… bit.ly/2Bp9vDd

Creative Automatic Writing: Getting Past the Censor and Generating Energy: Our internal dialogues plan, worry, criticise, and take up a lot of mental energy. If we are finding life stressful, writing can be an ideal place to stage an intervention and r… bit.ly/2E6ULeY

Intuitive Painting: A Dialogue With Your Heart: Intuitive painting often starts with a question that can't be answered in words. In the dance of form and colour, the sensual enjoyment of the paint, the excitement of not knowing what is coming next and … bit.ly/2nj8ipl

Can I Love You and Hate You at the Same Time?: Are pain and anger in themselves toxic forces or violent acts, that negate the love we feel for those who are close to us? Does this uneasy sense of contradiction cause us to hold those 'negative' emotions… bit.ly/2rrGfZb

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 unchangea… bit.ly/2Dgl159

Creative Regeneration: Bathing in my own attention, my breath, exercising the 'coming back' muscle whenever I get distracted, is what I call basic meditation. Every moment in this state is a moment of creative regeneration. Tags: anxiety and stress, m… bit.ly/2meaJc0

New Year and Its Pressures: At New Year there seems to be a lot of pressure -- to have a good time, to make New Year's eve a perfect night, and then to top it all with a fresh start in life. Does it have to be this way? Tags: anxiety and stress, meani… bit.ly/2q9tjXr