A Curious Route

Tag: health

  • Sensing Out Life: Making Sense of Our Senses and Practical Adjustments

    As human beings our sensory experiences, capacities and abilities help us to navigate and enjoy the world. They illuminate our experience of it as immersive and kaleidoscopic, and they can be vastly different from one another (think of colour blindness). In some modalities, they pale in comparison to the abilities of the creatures we share…

  • Thirteen Realities We Discount Because We Can’t Always See Them

    Some human experiences we can dismiss as unimportant or non-existent, especially in comparison to visible or quantifiable evidence. Here are thirteen common ones I’ve noticed. Take these as a reminder not to ignore or discount their impact on your own or others’ wellbeing. Executive function and processing capacity. These abilities and our style naturally vary greatly…

  • Procedures in Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Tools to Tend Gardens

    In Cognitive Analytic Therapy, the next important key idea to Reciprocal Roles (RRs) is procedures. These are the patterns we currently use, that we have personally developed over time, to cope with the impact and influence of our relationships upon us – on our identities, emotions and how we relate ourselves and others. Our past…

  • Managing uncertainty: when not knowing is sometimes the sensible decision

    In my undergraduate degree research, the ‘p-value’ was a number that came from statistical analysis. It was a long time ago now, but from my basic understanding and memory, the p-value gave an indication of how probable it was that the results were related to chance, rather than to the relationship between the conditions being…