Psychology
behaviour & bias, wellbeing
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Type 2 diabetes does not arise only from what people eat or how much they move. It often develops in the context of prolonged uncertainty, where the mind is repeatedly required to anticipate risk without resolution. In such conditions, the body adjusts its priorities long before clinical thresholds are crossed. Long before blood glucose levels
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Throughout history, human societies have developed frameworks to explain what lay beyond their understanding. Before the rise of science, events like storms, plagues, or the changing seasons were often explained not through impersonal processes, but through will and intention. This was a coherent first step: assigning agency was a way to impose a story on
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We often mistake composure for calm. We see a placid surface and assume a still depth. But in Angela Merkel’s story, her famed restraint was not the absence of feeling; it was the vessel that held it. Reading her memoir Freedom, what strikes me is not her patience, but the potent friction that patience concealed
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Why are we so often trapped? And by whom? The answer is not only in the deceiver’s hand, but in our own. We are trapped because of blind trust, unchecked attachment, and the comforting story we tell ourselves about those we love or admire. We are trapped by the sibling we assume will be fair,
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Why do some young people shift from ordinary teenage defiance to behaviours that put their health and safety at risk—smoking, marijuana use, hard drugs, or even acts of violence with knives and guns? Defiance itself is not unnatural. It is part of growing up, testing boundaries, and learning independence. But when it hardens into unsocial
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How Motion Reversed My Diabetes Most people underestimate the power of motion — not just movement, but intentional, repeated, daily motion. I was one of them. After years of managing type 2 diabetes with Metformin (500 mg twice daily), my HbA1c hovered stubbornly around 53–50 mmol/mol. It stayed there despite routine medication. But in the
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In a world fractured by haste, spectacle, and short-term gain, what compass can still guide us toward a life of substance? Not merely of achievement or appearance, but one that feels rightly lived — inwardly coherent, socially responsible, and quietly extraordinary? The Sanskrit triad Satyam Shivam Sundaram — truth, goodness, beauty — is one such
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How you breathe and how you walk — these are not just background actions of a busy day. They are active forces that influence your blood pressure, often more profoundly than we realise. For many, these rhythms are unconscious. But what if they could be re-trained, tuned, and harmonised — not only to reduce pressure
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Walk into a church. A mosque. A temple. The rituals look worlds apart — hymns rise, heads bow, incense curls through the air. But beneath the symbols, there’s one unmistakable common thread: Everyone is speaking without expecting a reply. Call it prayer, meditation, chanting, or reflection. Strip away the vocabulary and what remains is a
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I’ve been reading Angela Merkel’s biography, Freedom, and found myself pausing over her memories not because I agreed, but because I disagreed so deeply. It’s an honest book, personal and vivid — but it also reveals how thoroughly our upbringing and beliefs shape what we praise and what we condemn. Merkel tells a small story
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