logo

dr-james-hawkins

  • icon-cloud
  • icon-facebook
  • icon-feed
  • icon-feed
  • icon-feed

Research: a step forward for open access

21st October 2008

For much too long it has been hard to access published research without having to pay large amounts of money for journal subscriptions or single article fees.  Since a large proportion of this research is government, hence taxpayer, funded, it seems very wrong that we should then have to pay a lot to find out what the research discovered.

This situation is changing and as Richard...

Handouts & questionnaires for sleep, ADHD & fatigue

20th October 2008

Here are a collection of handouts, questionnaires and information sheets about sleep, ADHD, and fatigue.  The sleep handouts are mostly based on Colin Espie's excellent self-help book "Overcoming insomnia and sleep problems" and the intention is that the handouts would be used in conjunction with this book - see the bottom of the page for more details. 

...

Four aspects of helpful inner focus: 1.) reducing negative states

19th October 2008

I started meditating regularly while I was still at university in the early 1970's.  I then went on a number of meditation retreats and visited a whole series of monasteries and ashrams.  By the late 70's I had a good deal of experience of a fruit salad of methods including vipassana, zen, yoga relaxation, pranayama, dynamic meditation, hypnosis, chanting, and several other approaches.  I...