Be Well Magazine

Sometime the numbers just don’t add up. Plus and Minus are not, as you might expect, on opposite sides of the equation. They are a lot more alike than you might first think. Confused? 

Your ears pick up the ominous sound of a heavy body crashing through the undergrowth. Your heart races. Like lightning, your mind makes calculations. Spear? Useless. Tree? Three metres away. You run faster and climb more nimbly than you ever believed possible.

Imagine for a minute that to maintain your vital oxygen supply, you had to remind yourself to breathe in, and then out again. During that minute, you would need to repeat the instruction about twelve times – that’s 17,820 times every day.

You’re busy, and overworked. “I can’t be in two places at once!” you cry. And unless you’ve discovered time travel, you can only be present in the precise physical second that you inhabit.

Compassion, like love, is a word used freely, possibly without much consideration of its meaning. We talk about ‘feeling compassion’. But it’s much more than an emotion, although it’s certainly ‘heartfelt’.

There’s some news you need to hear. Are you sitting down? Well, you shouldn’t be. At least not as much as you might want to, and definitely less than most Australians do.

  How many times do we hear “it’s all in the genes” and we then seem somewhat uncomfortably content with accepting that we therefore cannot change such outcomes? Well, not anymore. Increasing evidence is emerging about the role of epigenetics. “Epi” from…