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Why I Changed My Mind About GLP-1 Medications
Read more: Why I Changed My Mind About GLP-1 MedicationsWe all rely on gut hormones called GLP-1 and GIP to regulate hunger, blood sugar, and energy use. In a healthy system, these hormones signal when we are full, how glucose should be handled, and whether energy should be stored or released.
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Dopamine, Desire, and the Middle Way
Read more: Dopamine, Desire, and the Middle WayWe learn this pattern early. The holidays make it obvious. We stretch anticipation on purpose, counting days, hiding gifts, building suspense. Excitement lives in the waiting. There is warmth in that. But there is also a lesson absorbed quietly: happiness is something that comes later.
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Retirement as a Gateway to a New Way of Living
Read more: Retirement as a Gateway to a New Way of LivingNo matter how complicated life feels, nothing is happening outside those six doors. Stress arises when we forget this and try to manage everything at once. Attention scatters. The mind races ahead or loops backward. Life feels noisier than it actually is.
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Is the Pursuit of Wisdom on Your List?
Read more: Is the Pursuit of Wisdom on Your List?As a culture, we rarely elevate wisdom. We celebrate knowledge, but more often we reward what is visible, measurable, and marketable. “Sexiest Man Alive.” Wealth. Productivity. Achievement. Influence. Followers. Titles. There is a prize for nearly every external marker of success.
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Have We Busied Ourselves Out of a Life?
Read more: Have We Busied Ourselves Out of a Life?We wear busyness as proof of importance. We confuse full calendars with full lives. Somewhere along the way, being busy stopped being a temporary condition and became an identity.
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What is a thought?
Read more: What is a thought?Given our thoughts become actions, it seems skillful to co sided our thought life – beginning with a simple question. What is a thought?
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OCD as Meditation Practice: When a Compulsion Becomes a Mantra
Read more: OCD as Meditation Practice: When a Compulsion Becomes a MantraIn the case of tracing a pattern in the carpet, the mind settles almost naturally. By meeting the movement with awareness rather than resistance, I can deepen my practice in real time. I am not pulled toward the experience or pushed away from it. The internal commentary quiets. What remains is direct contact with the…
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The Wisdom of Play
Read more: The Wisdom of PlayDo we have it backwards? Perhaps we missed the whole point? Our culture and industry inherited the framework of a six-day work cycle directly from religion, where God labored for six days and rested on the seventh. Without the Jewish Sabbath, which we now recognize on Saturday, we might very well be working six days…
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The Flip Side of Life
Read more: The Flip Side of LifeWhat happens when we stop replaying the same old tune Before streaming and playlists, we bought music on 45-rpm vinyl singles. The hit song lived on the A-side. The B-side wasn’t something you stumbled into. It didn’t play automatically.You had to physically flip the record over to hear it.And most of us rarely bothered. Yet…
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Go With The Flow
Read more: Go With The FlowThanksgiving wasn’t what any of us planned…it was better.
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