Free Throw It’s generally accepted that we – our species, the modern Homo sapiens – have been around for about 50,000 years. In that time roughly 108 billion people have lived. Approximately 8 billion of us are at it at the moment. And you’d have thought (wouldn’t you?) with such […]
Category: Mind
Something Comforting from Louis Cozolino – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
Hi again, Monday again. Easter again. Time, eh? It’ll get ya. I’ve been a little got this week, not feeling too well. My head feels like it’s been filled with custard sponge, so rather than serve that songey crap up to you, I’ve decided to copy a passage from a […]
Day Off Fuzzy Lines – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
Hi, I’ve decided to take the day off today. Not from writing this or from the other work I have but from the kind of work that has nothing to do with career or income: the work I continually give myself – and I think we all continually give ourselves, […]
Wide Eyes – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
Hi everyone, Firstly, thank you for all your messages of support and encouragement in response to the news we shared last time that my brothers and I have taken on the running of our dad’s work through barefootdoctorworld.com. Again, we kindly ask for your patience in replying to emails at […]
The Ride – Part 2 – Jake Russell
Hi everyone, As Yvonne, Affectionately Known As Whirly, said in her email last week, my brothers, Joe and Michael, and I have decided to take on the running and dissemination of our dad’s work through barefootdoctorworld.com. Please don’t worry or panic about accessing courses or anything you’ve bought. You can […]
Football, Death And Winning The Lottery – Jake Russell
Hi everyone, I had something completely different in mind for today, but there’s a blog I read every morning – about football, as it happens (and even though my relationship with football has changed quite a bit over the years, from playing, watching and following it with a fervent, albeit […]
The Primacy of the Felt Experience
Hello again, I find it amusing and a little bemusing to think that we human beings come delivered, pre-packaged, with everything we need to live a contented, peaceful and purposeful life, and then pretty quickly we adopt everything we need to fuck it all up. Others have said that more […]
Crowded House – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
A couple of thousand years ago or thereabouts the Roman Stoics practised a mental exercise (as in, for the mind; not as in, my mate Jonny puts ketchup on everything—he’s so mental) as an antidote to what’s much more recently been termed ‘hedonic adaptation.’ We’ll return to the Stoics shortly, […]
Love Actually – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
Hi everyone, This week’s piece has been on my mind for a while. I’ve known I wanted to write something to mark the year since my dad died, but I haven’t known what. The temptation is to go all Richard Curtis and sentimental. And he’d have liked that. He couldn’t […]
What Are You Thinking?! – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
Do you ever think about how much time you spend thinking? Or to be specific—how much time you spend thinking without thinking you’re thinking? Because when we begin to examine it, we quickly see that we get so lost in thought we don’t even know we’re thinking. Which has got […]