How can someone be so angry and so vicious, to push someone, to push them far beyond where they’ve already told you they’re not willing to venture. And when the buck gets stopped, to then just drop that person and accuse them of the worst.

You’re hurting someone who you should be caring about. Life sucks sometimes. You don’t always get what you want but that doesn’t mean that you have to make other peoples’ lives miserable.

Build a bridge.

I recently came across this article about how we should be a lot more concerned about alternative medicines than we’ve been. Perhaps I should be more outspoken about this myself. Very few of the people I know actually bother to lobby for the causes they believe in. And it is a shame.

Reiki recently came up at a Geekdinner and it got me into researching some of the other complementary and alternative medicines. Reiki sounds like an elaborate placebo if you ask me – and so do a lot of the other alternative medicines. There are some of these which I previously thought were outright legitimate. It seems I should be more skeptical of my own information store.

Some alternative medical avenues into which I believe the modern world needs to do some further scientific sifting:

• Homeopathy – Diluting a substance makes it less harmful but doesn’t make it less beneficial. Bulldust.
• Acupuncture – Meridians ug acupuncture points have no contemporary physiological relevance in medicine. This is related to the concepts of Qi in Energy Medicine.
• Energy Medicine – Energy or Qi fields in the body affect your health. Fixing, breaking, or manipulating the flow of these fields affects the ability of your body to heal itself and fight illness. This boils down to practitioners claiming to perform magic.
• Iridology – This is for diagnosing illness. Changes in specific parts of your iris indicate where and what type of illness may be affecting your body. How exactly can your eye track illness in your body and give your doctor a “fix-me” wishlist in a colour-by-number format?

I’ve been using a ball as a chair for well over 18 months now. Its comfortable and healthy, and hella cheaper than one of those fancy office chairs. R120 will get you an expensive ball and if you’re lucky, you’ll get two!

If you need extra chairs for impromptu meetings, they’re a lot less annoying than office chairs. They’re also more portable. 🙂

Its not quite as good as a full-on workout – but it requires a lot less time out of your schedule. Oh and its fun to game with as well. I’ll leave that to your imagination. 😉

See 10 Reasons to Use an Exercise Ball as Your Chair