However, we are all subject to the increasing pressures of our modern lives – checking phones for facebook messages, bombarded with junk email, letter boxes crammed with junk mail, phones with people ringing us up asking us to buy things we are not interested in, pressure to earn more and more money, so that we can buy more and more things, and buy bigger and bigger houses to put that stuff in … more stuff, more to do, less time to do it in … no wonder many of us are feeling overwhelmed.