by Jacques de Villiers | Mar 11, 2024 | Eccentricities
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 41/365 I was in a brief romantic entanglement recently. It was brief because I blew it. We’d had a wonderful evening and connected beautifully. Our future was pregnant with promise (probably not something...
by Jacques de Villiers | Mar 8, 2024 | Eccentricities
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 40/365 I’ve always been interested in how the Placebo Effect works. Or more accurately, that it works. I recall reading this weight loss study by Crum and Langer in 2007. Researchers told half of the cleaning...
by Jacques de Villiers | Mar 7, 2024 | Eccentricities
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 39/365 God: Hello Particle, I’m about to send you out into the world. What is it you’d like to accomplish on the journey you’re about to undertake? Me: I’d like to teach about resilience,...
by Jacques de Villiers | Mar 5, 2024 | Eccentricities
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 38/365 Apparently, people with strong spiritual beliefs have better mental health and adapt more quickly to health problems compared to those with weak spiritual beliefs. There are, of course, many other...
by Jacques de Villiers | Mar 4, 2024 | Eccentricities
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 37/365 I know it’s probably sacrilege to say that I’ve never really gotten into Robin Sharma (The 5 AM Club – Morning Routine) or Jay Shetty, the two monk superstars. Both of them are proponents...
by Jacques de Villiers | Mar 4, 2024 | Eccentricities
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 36/365My child thinks I would be called The Triggerer if I were a superhero because I have a knack for provoking people. Perhaps a tad unkind, but I think they’re right. I, of course, would rather like to be...
by Jacques de Villiers | Feb 29, 2024 | Eccentricities
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 35/365 Whenever Charles Dickens, the author, wrote scathing letters to those who he perceived to have offended him, Catherine, his wife, would always take them to the post office. She never posted them. And, saved him from...
by Jacques de Villiers | Feb 26, 2024 | Eccentricities
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 34/365 Just this Saturday evening I was at a friend’s dinner party when it happened again. I turned into a ghost. I was telling someone something mildly interesting when a woman inserted herself into the conversation...
by Jacques de Villiers | Feb 23, 2024 | Eccentricities
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 33/365 I’ve been meditating for more than 30 years now. It has probably been the single best practice that has kept me from totally unmooring from this reality. Meditation seems to imitate life or life...
by Jacques de Villiers | Feb 22, 2024 | Eccentricities
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 32/365 Most of us have been sentenced to a life of shame, apathy, guilt, grief and anger. Our shackles are the negative programmes our jailers (our parents) engineered into us. They implemented programmes to enslave us by...
