Sarah Wilson

simply a way to categorise body/personality types that exist for a multitude of evolutionary reasons. We all possess a mix of all three doshas, but tend to have one that dominates. Our dominant dosha can get out of balance, which causes us different digestion/weight, health and emotional issues.

Vata is the oxygen to the fire (pitta), the wind to the earth (kapha). Too much and off we burn, or whip into a whirly-whirly, out of control.

I often get asked about coffee. Is it bad? Should you drink it? I take my cues from Ayurveda. Nothing is inherently bad; it’s about whether it’s sending you off the air.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

nervous toggler Pascal also remarked that all of man’s problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone. And to let nothing happen. I’m not sure he ever got around to realising such a skill. He died at thirty-nine from what has been interpreted by some as anxiety-­related complications.

Read this. It’s fun.

It’s an exercise I learned from Gilpin:

But today there are few such boundaries. Information and obligations flood in. We keep thinking, after all these years (decades?) that there will come a lovely fine day when the influx eases. When we’ll get on top of it, as we once used to be able to. We still work to this old-school notion. But such a day no longer exists.