Category: Moderate
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Retro-walking backwards
Not long ago I posted about the Walk for Peace. Whilst last year I wrote about how I say the alphabet backwards to help me get to sleep and another about riding a bicycle backwards. Continuing my interest in both walking and backwardness, I recently wrote about Tai Chi Walking,…
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Rewilding your gut flora
I’m definitely no trend-setter, and most of the time I’m not even a trend-follower. I’ve always tended to be my own person, even if it means I’m a bit of a misfit that ends up as a societal wallflower… so be it… that’s where you meet other interesting wallflowers, hanging…
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“Yoshuku – the Japanese art of manifesting”
I’m still heavily invested in my “let’s manifest a nicer world” tangent, as part of my New Year’s Revelation for 2026 (there’s personal progress updates (and pictures) at the end of this post). As such, I was interested to discover a Japanese perspective on manifesting. Straight away, I felt a…
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Alpha-theta waves for healing
In our brains, there is a lot going on. I’m no neurologist, so I can’t even begin to fathom it all, let alone try to explain any of it to you… that said… there is something that has been floating around in my mind to write about for some time…
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Transcendental-mantra-meditation
When I was 19 years old, I went backpacking through India and Nepal with the intention of making it to the Annapurna base camp (read more here about how I ALMOST made it). One of the gifts that I brought home from that journey was an increased awareness of how…
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The military sleep method
I recently wrote a post (here) about how I help myself fall asleep by saying the alphabet backwards as I practice deep breathing. Well, my computer must have overheard my typing, because it started to feed me news links to other sleep methods. The method I was most intrigued by…
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7 minutes of movement for 7 days
I am not fit. I don’t like exercise. I tell myself it’s because I don’t have enough energy to exercise. Or time. Or that I’m worried the bouncing around will make my head pain worse. And besides, I already do mindful movement in the form of Tai Chi. Oh! And…
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Breathing backwards
Recently, I have been practicing a breathing exercise that I invented (or if not that – because it’s rare to truly invent anything these days – then, I can promise I genuinely have never heard anyone else talk of it). When I’m lying in bed and trying to calm myself…
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Bibliotherapy and migraines
As someone who has had a lot of migraines, I can tell you that there is a sliding scale of functionality that is attached to a life lived with pain. On some days, the pain is manageable or nearly missing, so you can do most things, even perform something as…
The Mindful Migraine 