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There is nothing like the world wide web to reduce complex-whole-of-life-change down to simplistic keyword-rich mantras. This is why the Dark Mistress has settled on weight-loss as the start-up objective in her move back to embodied life – the ads on FaceBook told her to. Give FaceBook enough demographic data to work out you’re a) […]

Last month an International Conference of Psychologists is considering the declaration of Internet Addiction as a mental illness. In my view this is a long shot – I mean second-life maybe. The internet though IS the cause of many sedentary hours – there is nothing like the www to give you the sense of doing […]

One might assume that if you’re in an ashram,  you’d be be getting the same bland, vegetarian dishes day in, day out. The ashram I stayed at however, offered a variety of different meals full of aromatic spices and fresh vegetables which I’ve since tried to replicate at home. As I’ve mentioned before, the ashram […]

It’s way early on a Saturday to be at the laptop and I’ve just watched the Pinot Guy’s presentation for TED.com – he’s telling us to write more, blog more, find time, take your laptop on the bus, do more than your competitors – it’s worked for him. So… if pushing the limits of what […]

I love the AA expression “trying is dying”… re-applied to weight-loss, it means, you’ve realized what you need to do but you’re lost without a start somewhere in between knowing and doing. This is why the Dark Mistress launched in and rode her bike 50Km last weekend… This is about natural weight-loss after all – […]

The Dark Mistress love/hates Google. It is a difficult relationship. I love it for the immediacy and I hate it for the user experience – in this case trawling through weight-loss pills, weight-loss Doctors in the middle of nowhere, American weight-loss ra ra, weight-loss teas, and the newest, latest Jason Clements “EXPLOSIVE approaches to weight-loss”. […]

Hope these make you smile. Even if it’s just a little smile.

A little visual inspiration to get you over the mid-week hump.

Human spreadsheet 7pm.. finally, as the cleaners arrive you finish… you haven’t peed for 8 hours, you’re parched, starving, and your back keeps that computer-curve for as you calmly pretend you aren’t dashing for the bathroom. Not that anyone would notice, because the sane people have gone home.

I’ve just returned from India where I stayed in ashram for a month living the yogic lifestyle. That means 5 a.m. starts, 4 hours of daily yoga practice, maintaining a strictly sattvic diet, undergoing cleansing techniques, chanting, meditation, karma yoga and so much more. It sounds so cliched, but in this short time I feel […]

For: Busy people who live in denial of the fact that the vehicle via which we browse the internet is, in fact, a human body…. Who: The-Dark-Mistress-Of-Denial.    Who is She?    You may already know her … 40+ years old, 20 years of deskwork behind her, in need of stress relief, and 20 years work of […]

The benefits of meditation are well known. People have been known to meditate through stressful situations in life, during childbirth, after operations for pain relief and in a range of other circumstances. There are many different styles of meditation to try including mindfulness meditation, transcendental meditation, mantra meditation, breathe meditation and guided meditation. I’ve tried […]