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Tag Archives: Servan-Schreiber
The Fear of Dying
A good friend’s mother died last week. But we went to the footie together on Wednesday, as we’d planned despite – and because of it. We didn’t talk much about it, but talking to others, one of the things in … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Life
Tagged Anticancer, Death, Fears, Light, Montaigne, Nothingness, Servan-Schreiber, Suffering
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Breathing
David Servan-Schreiber wrote about the power of breathing in his book ‘Healing without Freud or Prozac’. Basically if you can breathe at 6 breaths a minute you automatically convince your body and mind that all is well. Your ‘limbic system’ … Continue reading
Servan-Schreiber
I was sad to read today that David Servan-Schrieber lost his battle against cancer the other day. But although he lost the battle, I think he won the war. He lived nearly twenty full and vivid years post diagnosis of … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Death, Life
Tagged Anticancer, Aristotle, Brain Tumour, Cancer, Death, Full Life, Head and the Heart, Rise as from a banquet, Servan-Schreiber, Wellbeing
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Heart
With a heavy heart my partner and I agreed today that we would have our old retired racing greyhound put to sleep next Tuesday morning. He has a tumour which has grown to the size of a half football on … Continue reading
Day one
Where to begin. I’ve blogged elsewhere for a couple of years now, so I know the score. Write what’s in your mind and go with the flow. It’s the day before my 42nd birthday and I’m typing (a little clumsily) … Continue reading
