A child laughs around 300 times a day; an adult, just fifteen.  That is a shocking fact!  And it may go at least some way to explaining why we all feel so much more stress as we grow older. Stress is a killer.  It is linked to heart disease, stroke and is implicated as a [...]

How is it that we can face the stress of phones ringing nonstop, car horns blaring, rude clerks, fussy children, irritating neighbours, loud noise pollution and so on without going totally over the edge? In truth these stresses should send us over the edge but they don’t because at the end of the day our [...]