I came to the practice of breathing relaxation out of desperation. It was 2008. A book had suggested that the constant abdominal pain and urinary problems I had been experiencing were due to chronically tense muscles in the pelvic floor. I needed to learn deep relaxation. The book gave instructions

Can sound really enhance office workers’ productivity? The Times thinks it can. The newspaper has installed the sound of old-fashioned typewriters in its newsroom, with the sound building to a crescendo at press deadline. Sound powerfully affects us in four ways, even though we’re generally not

As many as five people under 35 die in Australia each week from sudden cardiac arrest and in half the cases the first sign of something wrong “is when they die suddenly”, a leading cardiologist says.On Sunday 27-year-old Chris Head died during the City2Surf fun run in Sydney. He went into cardiac

When I was a teenager in the early 90s, there was a definite trend adopted by a specific type of hippy student I dated, who told themselves and those around them that hair was "self-cleaning". For weeks, even months, they would refuse shampoo, resulting in hair that emitted cheap cider and bong

Being a nutritional role model for your kids is tough when you're a greedy guts with all the self-restraint of a hungry lioness with her head stuffed into the carcass of a recently downed zebra. I was thinking about this recently as I was hiding my stash. As ever, it was the hard stuff: a bag of