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  • The Wim Hof Method – Book review 

    The rationale of yogic breathing exercises: Practised systematically, these exercises result, after a time, in prolonged suspensions of breath. Long suspensions of breath lead to a high concentration of carbon dioxide in the lungs…

  • The shadow library

    “The shadow is the self’s emotional blind spot”. You could say that your shadow is reflected unconsciously in certain things you do: your responses, your aversions, addictions, and even the books you read. Last…

  • The Terrible, Horrible Wave

    “There’s never a point in surfing when you don’t have fear.”  Kelly Slater Want to go for a surf? Before you jump in the water, be aware that the following events may happen: Staring…

  • Whole brain design

    In 2023, it’s a bit passé to label an activity, person or job with ‘left-brain’ or ‘right-brain’. But most of us intuitively understand the difference. Left-brainers appear to be more organised and good with…

  • Swimming with discomfort

    From April – August 2020, I tried to swim very often in the sea. Usually every other day for 20-30 minutes. The trouble was the temperature of the water. Before my swim, was a…

  • The time Murakami ran 62 miles

    The following is an excerpt from the book “What I Talk About When I talk about Running” by Haruki Murakami. He’s running an ultra-distance race. While I was enduring all this, around the forty-seventh…

  • Eating until you are 100% full

    No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his…

  • Finding gratitude in chaos

    What should we do then? Make the best use of what is in our power, and treat the rest in accordance with its nature Epictetus, Discourses, I, 1, 17 Sometime in the 2010’s, gratitude…

  • Relatively numb

    The team gave thirty-four participants a test…jump on an exercise bike for fifteen minutes. They were told to pedal as they liked. The people who were good at perceiving their heart beats showed significantly…