Despite the welter of misinformation and hidden agendas driving the attention economy, leading to a sense that everything is continually getting worse, a wider look shows this isn’t really the case, and we can go a long way to protecting our mental wellbeing by the simple expedient of maintaining a ‘don’t know mind’.

Fatigue may feel physical, but actually our bodies are well-stocked with energy. Yet if you tell me, at three in the afternoon, that my exhaustion is just in my mind, I’d try and slap you. If I could actually raise my hand that is...

‘We inherit all of our energy producing capacity from our mothers. I’m paying back mine with interest every time I try to help her work her smartphone…’

Our immune system can be seen as a sixth sense, affecting our mood and energy levels, as well as a vital weapon against infection and the body’s repair mechanism. What is it and how can we help it do what it does best?

The idea that we have two minds isn’t new, yin-yang, horse and rider, Jekyll and Hyde, the Ego and Id. To these we can now add Fast and Slow thinking, an understanding of which sheds light on our cognitive biases.

It may not always seem like it, but the human brain has evolved to organise information. Studies have shown how we can tap into this inbuilt tendency to mentally tidy up, so that even in the era of Too Much Information we can manage our time better and make better decisions.

Most of us know how we move. We’re a skeleton wrapped in muscles which move everything about, right? Making those muscles stronger must make our movements stronger too. Only quite recently are we seeing that this view is incomplete. There is another ‘system’ at work - an elastic, fluid, all-encompassing network that gives us grace, stability and power…but also, if we ignore it, pain!