The benefits of running for your brain
I was never very good at sports but I have always loved running. That feeling of being outside and working on your health. When I finish my run I always feel great. The positive...
The best meditation sounds on YouTube
Feel like you're on vacation every day. Close your eyes and imagine lying in a field full of lavender in French Provence. It is a hot summer day and you hear the cicadas singing....
The Sun Salutation is a great way to start with yoga
I recently discovered yoga and decided to start practicing a sequence of yoga movements called the Sun Salutation. The Sun Salutation is traditionally performed to greet the new day. It is an important foundation...
This is a life changing experience – make the most of it
In the movie Cast Away Tom Hanks plays the role of someone who is stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific. He spends four years on the deserted...
Dragonwell tea is the tea of emperors
After water, tea is the most widely consumed drink in the world. I love drinking Dragonwell tea: a very tasty - and healthy - green tea from the area of Longjing Village in China....
Another Road is a perfect 80s top-down driving game
I have been looking for a certain kind of iOS game for some time now and today I finally found it! The game Another Road has a beautiful top-down visual style that reminds me...
Why Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche has a young brain
Recently I discovered Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, a famous meditation teacher and master of Tibetan Buddhism. He has a modern, fresh way of teaching and he also likes to combine modern scientific research with the...
How I decluttered my online life
At work I keep my desk clutter free. It helps me to relax and focus on my tasks. Unfortunately, my online life was a huge mess. My online office looked similar to that of...
Let’s make some happy little trees
All those loud YouTubers unpacking toys, creating useless waste and destroying things in their videos annoy me. But I guess that these are the things that most of our kids watch nowadays. Where is...
Ten things you probably didn’t know about sleep
Many aspects of sleep are still a mystery. Also to the scientists that study it. It is strange we know so little about this incredibly healthy and healing 'thing' we do for one-third of...