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EDITORIAL

From the

Sometimes we meet people that have the ability to darken a room and
sour a mood simply by arriving in our personal space. At times, we are that
person! Sometimes we will wake up, look out the window, and find our
moods dampened due to the weather conditions, yet at other times the
weather will have the opposite effect. Now whether it is ourselves, other
people or the weather, we live in a complex environment made up of
natural conditions ranging from hormonal and chemical soup in our minds
to levels of humidity and air pressure.

“What is this guy on about?” I hear some of you ask. Well, this sensitivity to
our surroundings may seem fickle at times, but is very real nonetheless. It
affects each one of us. The good news though, is that we have the ability
and capacity to change any situation we find ourselves in, turn it on its head
and go a different direction. This is the great gift of humankind: the ability to
make choice.

I recently attended a lecture by Dr Caroline Leaf (one of our writers) and
was encouraged to hear that we are able to establish brand new neural
pathways (i.e. different patterns of thought) in one to four days. This same
change will be indelibly etched into our mind as a habit in twenty one days.
The process, however, starts with us making use of that free gift we have:
choice.

We find ourselves at the start of October, the tenth month of our year, three
months to the next year, and also, incredibly, the start of our official summer
season. Perhaps it is our eagerness to get to the ‘real goodies’ of a summer
season that caused us to view spring merely as a one-month event? So
what do you think of when you hear the word “summer”? How does it affect
your mood, environment and the way you think? Each of us is different and
will be affected differently.

When I think about summer certain images come to mind: watermelon,
soft-serve, beach sand, laughter, ocean breeze, afternoon thunderstorm,
boerewors braai, friends, family, holiday, green grass, blue water, a good
book and feet up in the air. Whatever your images are, I trust that we can
contribute a few more as you go through this issue, page by page, word by
word and picture by picture.

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