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Listening with the Body: Presence Beyond Thought
There are ways of listening that have nothing to do with the ears. We often think of listening as an act of understanding — of interpreting words, deciphering meaning, forming response. But beneath that level of mind, there’s a subtler kind of listening — one that happens through the body. The skin, the breath, the pulse — they’re all in quiet conversation with the world. When we begin to notice that dialogue, presence deepens into something more whole, more real.
By Marina Gomez3 months ago in Longevity
The Iron Paradox: Spinach's Role In Your Body's True Absorption Rate
For generations, spinach has been synonymous with strength and vitality, largely thanks to the iconic Popeye and a long-held belief in its exceptional iron content. This association has cemented the leafy green as a go-to food for combating fatigue and anemia. However, the relationship between spinach and your body's iron levels is far more complex and nuanced than popular culture suggests. This is the Iron Paradox: while spinach is indeed rich in iron, your body's ability to absorb it is a story of biochemical competition and clever nutritional strategy.
By Jacky Kapadia3 months ago in Longevity
How to Balance Estrogen Through Your Diet: Pro Tips
I’m sure many of you have heard (or read!) me say this before, but… You can’t actually “balance” your hormones. They aren’t meant to be balanced. Hormones, of all kinds and all jobs in the body, are designed to fluctuate as part of running metabolism, the circadian rhythm and so much more. These ebbs and flows allow for various organ systems to do their jobs! Balancing hormones in a way that would cause stagnation or steady levels might actually prevent typical functions - this is how oral contraceptives work, by supplying the body with a steady level of estrogen and progesterone to prevent ovulation from occurring.
By Emily the Period RD3 months ago in Longevity
The Kindness of Breath: Healing Without Striving
There’s a softness to breath that I often forget — a rhythm so quiet it almost hides beneath the noise of the day. The breath asks for nothing, demands no perfection, doesn’t measure whether we’re doing it right. It just moves — steady, kind, continuous. No matter how restless the mind becomes, the breath keeps returning, whispering its quiet assurance: you’re still here.
By Jonse Grade3 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
Carrying Silence: How Stillness Moves Through the Day
Silence used to feel like something separate — a place I visited in meditation, a momentary pause between the noise of doing. I would sit on the cushion, close my eyes, and wait for it to arrive, like a secret I could only touch when everything else stopped. But over time, the boundaries between silence and life began to blur. I began to wonder: what if silence isn’t something we enter, but something we carry?
By Black Mark3 months ago in Longevity
When the Mind Rests: The Art of Inner Listening
There’s a moment in meditation — rare, delicate — when the mind, after so much effort and noise, finally grows quiet. It doesn’t disappear, exactly. It just loosens its grip. Thoughts drift by like clouds instead of storms, and what remains underneath feels vast and alive. In that silence, a different kind of listening begins — not to sound or thought, but to the pulse of awareness itself.
By Jonse Grade3 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
Quiet Confidence: The Strength Found in Softness
There was a time when I thought strength had to be loud — that it needed to announce itself in certainty, in speed, in the ability to push through. I admired people who seemed untouchable, self-assured, always moving forward. I wanted that same kind of confidence, the kind that didn’t waver. But the more I tried to build it, the more brittle I became. It was as if I’d built a shell of strength, not realizing how easily shells can crack.
By Victoria Marse3 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
Listening to the Unsaid: Awareness Beyond Words
Some truths arrive without language. They appear in the spaces between words — in the quiet glance between friends, in the way the air shifts after someone speaks, in the subtle tension that lingers when something has been left unspoken. The older I get, the more I realize how much of life exists in these in-between moments, where words fall short and awareness must take their place.
By Marina Gomez3 months ago in Longevity
