After a few weeks, I started noticing that, contrary to popular opinion, relaxation is a powerful force and that slowing down actually speeds up the creative process.

FORBES: Detox From Busyness

Brodie Clark resigned as head of the UK border force last week amid a row with Home Secretary Theresa May over the relaxation of passport controls during a pilot scheme last summer.

BBC: UK Border Agency

Two headset-based toys released in 2009 Uncle Milton's Star Wars Force Trainer and Mattel's Mindflex used players' concentration and relaxation levels, gauged by comparing brain waves of different frequencies, to make a ball rise or fall using airflow from a fan.

ECONOMIST: Brainwave controllers

He said the head of the UK Border Agency, Rob Whiteman, had rightfully suspended UK Border Force chief Brodie Clark after learning that he had authorised staff to go further than ministerial activity on border relaxation.

BBC: PMQs: Cameron and Miliband clash over border row