In this final part of “getting rid of want” I just want to discuss one final idea to help you deal with cravings. To be honest, I really should have talked about this in the first blog entry of this series when I was discussing Gratitude, but I forgot all about it! So, it is [...] Read more »
Getting Rid of Want 3: Mindfulness
“Poverty is not the absence of goods but rather the overabundance of desire” – Plato Mindfulness is best described by John Kabat-Zinn as “…paying attention in a particular way; On purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.” Being mindful of the present moment can reduce habituation and therefore craving. In one study of habituation, 3 [...] Read more »
Getting Rid of Want 2: Apathy
Following on from yesterday, when I talked about developing your gratitude of what you already have to reduce the craving and want for the new and shiny. The next technique was something I have worked on and developed and uses an NLP principle known as “anchoring” (but don’t worry, I am not going to go [...] Read more »
Getting Rid of Want 1: Gratitude
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.” – E. F. Schumacher (Economist, founder and exponent of “Buddhist Economics”) Slowing down is a constant journey of discovery. This blog is as much [...] Read more »
Saint Monday
The Slow Coach is celebrating Saint Monday. He will be back tomorrow. Read more »
Choice: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Our toaster broke yesterday. Not being the most technical minded, my attempt at trying to fix it seems to have made it worse (I checked the fuse and any obvious loose cables), so, frustratingly, we had to go out and buy a new one (can’t live without toast, toast is one of the Idlers staple [...] Read more »
Life is Journey, Not a Destination
“A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu. The problem with our goal/success/achievement driven society is that we spend so much time fixating on the goal that we miss the process. Whenever I have something I want to achieve (and Slow is not about NOT achieving things [...] Read more »
SlowCast Episode 9: Muses and Saint Monday
You can here the news SlowCast here, or subscribe in iTunes here. Below is a transcript: Once again a month seems to have passed since I last produced a Slow cast, it is certainly not because I have been being tardy. Far from it. I wish I had! I have been busy, busy, busy (and [...] Read more »
John Bachar – A True Slow Hero
John Bachar, Free Climber, died on July 5th aged 52 I was reading The Economist this week and came across the obituary of John Bachar. I was, when I was about 17, really into climbing, sadly, as friends and climbing buddies left to go to university our little climbing gang drifted apart and I haven’t [...] Read more »
Saint Monday
The Slow Coach is celebrating Saint Monday and will be back tomorrow. Read more »