Garold One
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writer and meditation practitioner
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Listening to Silence: How Absence Speaks
There’s a moment at the end of a long day — when the last sounds fade, when conversation drifts away, when even the hum of the world seems to pause — that something subtle begins to speak. It’s not a sound exactly. More like a presence that emerges in the gaps, in the pauses between what’s been said and what hasn’t. It’s the quiet that waits behind everything.
By Garold One3 months ago in Longevity
Touching the Ordinary: Finding the Sacred in Daily Life
It’s taken me most of my life to realize that the extraordinary is not somewhere else — not waiting in mountaintop sunsets, silent retreats, or perfect mornings. It’s right here, folded into the most ordinary things: the scent of coffee drifting through the kitchen, the hum of traffic outside a half-open window, the warmth of sunlight pooling on the floor. For years, I overlooked these moments, chasing something grander — a feeling of spiritual significance, a glimpse of transcendence. But the sacred doesn’t hide in distance. It hides in plain sight.
By Garold One3 months ago in Longevity
Resting in Change: When Letting Go Becomes Home
Change has always made me uneasy. Even the small ones — the end of a season, the shift of a daily routine, a friend moving away — used to leave me feeling unmoored, as if something solid beneath me had quietly dissolved. I longed for stability, for something I could hold onto without fear of losing it. But life, with its patient wisdom, kept teaching me the same lesson in a thousand quiet ways: everything moves. Everything changes. And the more tightly I held on, the more life slipped through my grasp.
By Garold One3 months ago in Longevity
Breathing Through Resistance: The Practice of Allowing
There are moments in meditation when the very act of sitting still feels unbearable. The mind resists, the body fidgets, old thoughts and emotions rise like restless ghosts. I used to see this resistance as failure — as proof that I wasn’t calm enough, spiritual enough, good enough. I’d fight it, tighten my breath, and try harder to return to stillness. But the harder I tried, the further I drifted from ease.
By Garold One3 months ago in Longevity
Roots of Ease: Grounding Through the Body’s Wisdom
There are days when the mind feels like weather — changeable, unpredictable, full of static. I can wake up already carried forward by invisible momentum, my thoughts rushing ahead before my feet even touch the floor. It’s in those moments that I feel how easy it is to live entirely from the neck up, as if the body were just a vehicle for thought instead of a home for being.
By Garold One3 months ago in Longevity
The Breath as Anchor: Returning to the Present Again and Again
There are days when the mind feels like an untamed sea — waves of thought, memory, and anticipation pulling in all directions. I’ll catch myself halfway through a task, heart racing, not because anything urgent is happening, but because I’ve drifted miles away from this moment. My body might be here, but my attention is elsewhere — tangled in the invisible currents of worry and planning.
By Garold One3 months ago in Longevity
Flowing with Change: Mindfulness in Everyday Transitions
Change doesn’t always announce itself with thunder. Sometimes, it arrives like mist — barely visible, soft on the edges, yet everything feels different when you look again. The chair slightly moved. The silence holding a new tone. The reflection in the mirror just a little older.
By Garold One3 months ago in Longevity
Unraveling the Knot: Meeting Inner Resistance with Breath
Sometimes life feels like a tightly wound knot. Stress, uncertainty, and resistance twist themselves into a tangled web inside us, manifesting as tension in the body, racing thoughts, or unease we can’t quite name. I’ve spent countless hours trying to “fix” these feelings, pushing against the resistance with logic, willpower, or distraction. But over time, I’ve learned that meeting inner resistance doesn’t always require force. Often, the gentlest and most effective approach is simply to breathe.
By Garold One4 months ago in Longevity
Remembering Wholeness: Coming Home to What Was Never Lost
There’s a curious feeling that sometimes visits me: a sense of having forgotten something essential, something that was never really lost. Life moves so fast, and we move with it—chasing schedules, managing obligations, juggling expectations. In the rush, it’s easy to feel fragmented, like pieces of ourselves are scattered across tasks, thoughts, and responsibilities. But deep down, there’s a wholeness we’ve carried all along, waiting quietly for our attention.
By Garold One4 months ago in Longevity
The Return Home: Remembering Yourself Through Presence
Sometimes life feels like a constant rush, pulling us in every direction at once. We chase tasks, appointments, and obligations, and in the process, we can forget the simplest yet most important thing: ourselves. Meditation offers a gentle reminder that we can always return home—not to a physical place, but to our own presence.
By Garold One4 months ago in Longevity
Emotional Weather: Letting Feelings Pass Like Clouds
Life is rarely a calm, clear sky. Emotions arrive uninvited, sometimes as gentle breezes, other times as heavy storms. We often try to control, suppress, or escape these feelings, believing that stability means eliminating discomfort. Yet, meditation offers a radically different perspective: what if emotions were not problems to fix, but weather patterns to observe? By learning to let feelings pass like clouds, we cultivate resilience, presence, and a deeper understanding of our inner landscape.
By Garold One4 months ago in Longevity
Rest as Resistance: Redefining Productivity Through Stillness
In a culture that worships busyness, rest is often misunderstood. It’s treated as a reward, a luxury, or a sign of laziness — something to earn after exhaustion, not something to practice as an act of balance. Yet beneath the noise of productivity lies a quieter truth: rest is not the opposite of doing. It is a radical form of presence, a conscious refusal to equate worth with output.
By Garold One4 months ago in Longevity
