Credit: The Brain Maze (Facebook) "Cold showers do more than just wake you up—they can actually change how your brain works. Research from Bournemouth University shows that exposure to cold water increases dopamine levels, the chemical linked to motivation and mood. This boost can sharpen mental focus, helping you concentrate more effectively throughout the day. Regular cold showers also train your body and mind to handle stress better, building psychological resilience over time. It’s a simple habit with surprisingly powerful effects on brain function and emotional strength."

On Pardigm Shifts -- Mystical Leaps

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Paradigm Shifts | annotated by Pepijn

People that spoke with William Shockley in the 1960s all said the same thing. They said it was like talking to God. Shockley helped invent and comm...

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us. Not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen [Art: Jeanie Tomanek]

"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." - Jack London

“As a child, I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”#Innerchild #Jung #loneliness ~ Carl Jung~

Credit: Brigit Anna McNeill (facebook) "October carries a kind of gravity. The hedgerows swell with berries and hips, the air is damp with petrichor, and the sweet musk of decay rises from the forest floor. Darkness lengthens, the soil drinks the rain, and the trees loosen their grip, scattering their leaves to the ground. It is a month that teaches us how beauty and loss belong together. That abundance and decline are not opposites, but companions. That the end of a cycle can be as radiant as its beginning. When we walk into October, we walk into the truth of the wild: that endings are not emptiness, but the womb of what will come." ART Tijana Lukovic

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.” K.L. Toth Adrienne Stein - Forest Reverie, 2017.