History demonstrates this repeatedly — often with significant consequences for those who attempt to pursue or retain it without limitation. The same principle applies, in a rather less dramatic fashion, to human physiology. Power requires resources. Resources require replenishment. No system can operate indefinitely at maximum output.
The scales of justice are not always in balance. Rather, they are a symbolic representation of the process of weighing evidence, not a guarantee of perfect equilibrium. In legal and mythological contexts, the scales may tip to reflect the greater weight of truth, evidence, or merit on one side over the other.
What did the Hollywood star have to do to get the mythic biceps on display in the film of the summer — at the age of 55? Our top trainer explains
Judges know sitting at the bench can be exhausting, but simply a bit of gentle exercise such as a change of position can transform hardship to workmanship, or body and mind resentment, to management, to contentment. Malcolm Hood encourages judges to invest in recovery.
History demonstrates this repeatedly — often with significant consequences for those who attempt to pursue or retain it without limitation. The same principle applies, in a rather less dramatic fashion, to human physiology. Power requires resources. Resources require replenishment. No system can operate indefinitely at maximum output.
The scales of justice are not always in balance. Rather, they are a symbolic representation of the process of weighing evidence, not a guarantee of perfect equilibrium. In legal and mythological contexts, the scales may tip to reflect the greater weight of truth, evidence, or merit on one side over the other.
We spend roughly a third of our lives unconscious and vulnerable, which tells you something important — if evolution could have engineered a way around sleep, it would have. It hasn’t.
If you struggle with sleep, the idea that some people fall into it without a thought might be mind-blowing. Perhaps you approach bedtime with a quiet dread, already bracing for a battle?
Sleep is not a competition. It is a rhythm — imperfect, human and, when given half a chance, remarkably resilient. What we might need is less panic and more perspective, which I hope the answers to these questions will bring.
How much sleep do we really need? Is it really eight hours? If you’re fed up with tossing and turning, psychotherapist Heather Darwall-Smith has the answers to all your sleep problems
A little less movement. A little more sitting. Sleep becomes inconsistent. Stress becomes ordinary. The body adapts to long hours, mental strain, and poor habits until, eventually, those habits begin to show themselves in energy, weight, mood, concentration, blood pressure, or simply a dull sense that one is not functioning quite as well as one once did.
Whether or not you choose to exercise your right to advance “past go” is up to you. There is no monopoly on who may avail themselves of the number one drug for longevity, or on the degree to which they may partake — though, by location, perhaps a few of your clients are a little restricted. But not you.
Judges are, in a unique sense, leaders. For society, this is healthy. People need somewhere to take their real or perceived grievances so they can be revealed, examined, and adjudicated. If injustice is bottled up and allowed to escalate without the opportunity for a wise, respected, neutral second opinion, harmful situations can develop — situations that are far from being “free from illness or injury”, in other words, unhealthy for society.
