What is knowledge? How certain can we be about the knowledge we have? Can we ever be completely certain about what we know? Is it wise to aim for greater certainty? The development of our own knowledge In this article I wish to explore the concept of ‘knowledge’. We...

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  Click on 'Circular needs and resources diagram' link. Circular needs and resources diagram As described in previous articles ('Living with EASE' and 'Stress versus Stretch'), human beings have a specific set of needs (inside the circle on the diagram) that must...

Where is the mind in relation to the body? How easy is it to separate physical health and mental health? Could there be an alternative way of thinking about and treating disease? Simplistic Pattern-Matching In general, human beings like to categorise and lump similar...

Second in the series of 5-minute videos explaining the basics of human givens principles

Can stress be good for us? If so, what would good stress look like? Is there an optimum amount of stress? To be able to answer the questions above, we need first to define what we mean by stress. When we talk about stress, we tend to mean it in the emotional sense –...

First in the series of 5-minute videos explaining the basics of human givens principles

Why do we have emotions? What are they for? With all the problems that can come from emotions, wouldn’t human beings be better off without them?