Kindness is not a word we hear a lot in today’s over-busy workplaces. Wellbeing is up there as a concept, but I’m not sure it resonates with many people. It’s a word a bit like sustainability – easy to rattle on about but highly open to interpretation. So I wonder if ‘kindness’ is a simpler, […]

The first moments of consciousness on waking follow a particular pattern.  First of all, there’s a kind of innocent, open quality – this can be experienced when you’re staying away from home, and for a second or two you can’t think where you are.  This is actually a great moment to tune in to our naturally ‘unformatted’

What we take to be real out there, is almost entirely created in here, in our minds, using a very small amount of live sense data.  We’re not seeing infrared, magnetic fields, or gamma radiation, we’re picking up a fraction of a dog’s olfactory mapping of the world, and our hearing is limited in range. Our cone of