It took me years to realise that I am allergic to garlic. Not allergic in the traditional sense, more that every time I have garlic I’m stimulated as though I have had twenty cups of coffee. Whenever I used to eat out I’d return home and be unable to get to sleep. One night lying…
It was during my training sessions at a Transcendental Meditation(TM) course I discovered Ayruvedic medicine. Supposedly the founder of this course, someone named the Maharishi, was a big advocate. I thought if it was good enough for the Maharishi, whoever the hell he was, it was certainly good enough for me. As luck would have…
I am sure I must have been a princess in a former life. People have likened me to the Princess and the Pea. My mattress needs to be just right. I may as well be on the floor as be given a hard mattress. It’s said that hard mattresses are best for the back, but…
Many people have labelled me a trash bag. This is either because they have seen me out during times of absolute exhaustion, and the two or three wines I have had have taken on the same effect as a couple of bottles or because when I rocked up to work looking like something the cat dragged…
It goes without saying that this is something I have had to learn to deal with. There have been days where I have had the best of intentions but in all honesty, without sleep I can barely function let alone achieve anything much other than making the dinner. I remember when I didn’t sleep, I…
My first experience with affirmations was during my time in London when I shared a house with a lovely Danish girl named May Britt. I was at a particularly low point in my life and so in order to improve my state of well being the girl told me to repeat out loud every morning…