About

Who are you, anyway?

Willie Hewes, illustrator, practitioner of various things and believer in science! as well as art.

I blog about mindfulness and draw things for fun and profit. If you need to get in touch with me, you can use e-mail: willie AT williehewes DOT com. And we can hang out at Twitter: @williehewes.

If you want to send me something, like fansocks, or pencils, or a card, you can do so by using this address: 24 St Peter’s Court, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 4AS. That’s in the UK.

What’s “Mad Science”?

My blog about mindfulness and having a good life is called Mad Science because I like to think of myself as a lone nutter, working away in my attic laboratory trying to improve my own mind and machinery.

I’m odd that way.

It also refers to the experimental, lets see what this button does, approach I like to take. I don’t have a guru, I take no one person’s or tradition’s teachings as universal wisdom. I take something, try it, and see how it works for me. I think that’s the only way.

It’s also because I make no extraordinary claims of sanity. Caveat emptor.

Mindfulness? But you never write about meditation?

Mindfulness isn’t just about meditation, although that’s the best way to practice it, I think. (I may not write about it, but I do practice.) Mindfulness is about how you deal with life how you respond to stress and anxiety, etc. If you want to learn to meditate, my blog isn’t very helpful. Mindfulness meditation courses are pretty common though, and you can also learn from books, tapes, or at retreats.

The problem most of us have is that we have, like, ordinary life to get on with. Meditating at a retreat or as part of a course is not the same as meditating at home. Each have their own benefits and challenges. The challenge I write about is this:

How do you find mindfulness, or how do you stay mindful, in the face of… all this?

All this is quite a lot of stuff. So that’s what I write about.

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