How to Stay Human in an Accelerated World
If the world feels louder than it used to, you are not imagining it. Information never stops. Productivity is moralised. Growth is mandatory. Climate disruption unfolds in real time. Artificial light erases night. We call this progress. Biologically, it is acceleration without recovery. When a nervous system detects threat, it mobilises. Heart rate rises. Muscles tighten. Attention narrows. This is sympathetic activation — the biology of action. It is not weakness. It is desi
The Coherence Method: Why Expansion Without Integration Leads to Collapse
There is a pattern I have observed repeatedly — in individuals, in organisations, and in civilisations. Expansion without integration eventually destabilises the system. You can see it in the nervous system. When we expand — spiritually, intellectually, emotionally — energy increases. Insight accelerates. Perception sharpens. Capacity stretches. But if the body does not have the regulatory architecture to hold that expansion, the system compensates. Sleep destabilises. Inflam
When the Body Says Enough
There comes a moment when the body stops negotiating. It may arrive as fatigue that no amount of sleep seems to fix. As tension that will not release. As symptoms that appear just when you thought you were coping well. For many of us, this moment can feel like failure. But what if it isn’t? What if the body saying “enough” is not a breakdown, but a form of intelligence — a final, compassionate attempt to protect what matters most? The body speaks when we no longer listen We l
