"Take a moment to notice which nostril feels more open right now. One side will usually be clearer while the other might feel a bit blocked. When your left nostril is more open, your body is in a calmer, rest and digest state. When your right nostril is more open, you’re in a more alert or active state. This naturally shifts every couple of hours in what’s called the nasal cycle, where we tend to breathe about 75% through one nostril and 25% through the other. This cycle is controlled by your autonomic nervous system, helping your body stay balanced without you even realizing it." -Anthony Goldsmith #bodywisdom

"Beneath the root and rib of the world, where worms write scripture in loam and stones remember the sea, there is a hum older than language. I have heard it in the bone-dark, a low hymn rising through my body, the chthonic breath woven through the underbody of the world, moving through soil, shadow and the soft rot of becoming. The gods there, wear mud for skin, their breath the rhythm of life and death, their hands braiding beginnings and endings together beneath us; turning dark to bloom, silence to breath, rot to womb. I’m drawn to that darkness, to the tender mouths of fungi translating the dead into nourishment, to the roots whispering in green tongues through the damp corridors of decay. This underworld is not hell, but humus: the warm, breathing dark from which all things rise. And somewhere in that dark, I feel myself, made of its chthonic under-song, a creature stitched from seed and compost, learning again and again how to belong to the dark that midwives the seed." #potry #art ——— • WORDS Brigit Anna McNeill • • ART Ruth Evans •

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Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom - PMC

As traditional handwriting is progressively being replaced by digital devices, it is essential to investigate the implications for the human brain....