It has been suggested to me that, in last week's Ezine, I was drifting towards the spiritual - the words "airy fairy" were the ones that were actually used - when I attempted to explain that, in the present moment, all is well. I wasn't. The last four Ezine's (this one included) have been focusing on long-term international research on what it is like to be in Flow. This research has been carried out, over a protracted period of years, on both sides of the Atlantic - the Universities of Chicago and Milan are the main movers and shakers!

When you are in Flow all is well - one of the key attributes of Flow is immersion in the moment to the extent that carries and worries evaporate or, in other words, all is well. Something else happens when you're in Flow - you expend less mental energy to do more. Neuroscience confirms that the focused mind exhibits significantly less neural activity to do the same task that demands significantly more activity from the normal or unfocused mind. This is effortless in action - a contradiction in terms grammatically, but a neurological fact.

Flow means something else too - it is the purposefully focused carefree state of mind in which you find yourself when your brain's Central Executive - situated in the left Prefrontal Cortex, the neural correlate of consciousness - is activated and engaged in what you are doing. I've mentioned enough times, over the last couple of years, that the normal brain's Central Executive is never activated or engaged in the normal adult life. Again, psychological fact.

Flow is a wonderful place to be, a natural high, a place of both mental peace and exhileration at the same time. Just because I use such words to describe the magnificence of Flow doesn't mean that it is any the less a scientifically validated fact. And, even better, a scientifically validated state of mind which we can all choose - that's been validated too.

Realizing, through experience (the experience of Flow) that all is well is the only attitude to have - and the only way to approach a now in which all, in the outside world, is clearly not well.

I'm not going to characterise today's story by reference to a particular ethnic or socio-economic group - it's just that there are certain people who do certain things that (a) they shouldn't get away with and (b) negatively impact others.

What am I talking about? Well, whilst recently doing the weekly shop in Carrefour - France's largest supermarket chain - we noticed a couple of interesting things: customers weighing one courgette, printing out the weight and price and adding two or three more courgettes to the plastic bag - thieving in other words. OK the only people being impacted by that behaviour is Carrefour itself - a more watchful eye on the weighing scales would soon sort that out.

But what about the kind of person who takes the organically produced large eggs out of the expensively packaged carton and swaps them with the bargain basement budget own-brand eggs. First of all, again, it's thieving but, secondly, what about the customer who comes along to buy his or her farm-fresh eggs only to buy the mass-produced cheaper alternative?

The funny thing is, when you mention this to a member of staff, they tell you that they know what's going on!