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09/06/2026

We try to prioritize nature time. How about you? Just do it! 💫

From Human Garage email:

When did you last feel your whole body exhale?

Not just relax, actually fully exhale. The kind of stillness that happens when your nervous system downregulates and you feel safe and supported.

Maybe you felt this by the ocean where the waves lapped at your bare feet. Maybe you felt this when immersed in nature and the smell of the pines calmed your senses.
That's not just a nice feeling. That's your fascia finally getting the signal it's been waiting for.

Nature has always been the biggest antidote and it has always been free. In the modern digital world, it has never been more important to get back to the basics.

The Signals of Nature

This rarely gets talked about, but your fascia has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years reading the signals of nature. From the light, to the sounds, to the textures, to the atmosphere. It became second nature to it a long time ago (pun intended!)
What feels foreign to your fascia?

The digital world we are now accustomed to. Think about it for a minute. If your fascia has learned patterns and signals that nature has provided for many years, this current and fairly new digital age that we live in is quite startling for it. The artificial light, the wifi, the EMFs. We've talked about the impact these have on your body over the past few weeks, and little hacks you can do to lessen that impact.

The biggest antidote of all? Nature. Nature is your ultimate power move and here's how you can utilize it effectively.

Earthing aka Grounding

Did you know that after a full month of EMF exposure your body has accumulated a positive charge?

Direct contact with the earth discharges that load. The earth carries a negative ionic charge, and this is why grounding your bare feet on grass feels immediately different. Your fascia is recalibrating and if you are very aware of your body and tune in, you may be able to feel the earth quite literally flooding your body with negative ions.

After a day of working at your laptop, getting your bare feet on the ground will discharge the EMFs that you have accumulated throughout the day. This is as simple as it sounds and super powerful.

Even better, get outside and do Fascial Maneuvers with your bare feet on the ground. You will notice a shift in your body instantaneously.

The Sound Environment

We tend to think about the visual environment when out in nature, but what about the sound environment?

Did you know that your fascia is a piezoelectric tissue? Put simply, your fascia is a vibrational receiver. Your fascia literally responds to sound by changing its electrical state. This is why music can make you feel something physically, not just emotionally. Crazy, right?!

Natural sounds are your fascia's best friend. Birdsong, moving water, the wind through the trees. All of these sounds operate in frequency ranges that the nervous system reads as safe.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, sound is medicine. Specific frequencies resonate with specific organs and their corresponding fascia. The sound of moving water corresponds to the kidney meridian and birdsong activates the liver and gallbladder meridians associated with movement and decision. Your fascia is listening without you even being aware of it.​
Natural Light

Do you catch the sunrise? There's a reason it has become a popular 'hack' in the longevity space. Morning spectrum light regulates your circadian rhythm, reduces stress and anxiety, boosts vitamin D production and so much more. This has never been more important to prioritize in today's digital world.

Full spectrum sunlight contains infrared wavelengths that pe*****te your fascia directly, improving cellular hydration and fascial flexibility in ways artificial light never can. This is the light your fascia was always designed to receive.

Natural Movement

Walking on uneven terrain, climbing, reaching, squatting. This is the multidirectional movement fascia needs to stay hydrated and mobile, and it's exactly what most of us have stopped doing.

Screen life creates a double problem. The EMFs keep the nervous system on edge while the body barely moves, so your fascia is getting too much of the wrong signal and nowhere near enough of the right one. Walking barefoot on uneven ground fixes both at the same time. The electromagnetic load discharges through the earth, the fascial network activates through the movement, and your feet are finally feeling something real beneath them. Your body knows exactly what to do from there.

What if you live in a city?

We understand that it is harder to immerse yourself in nature when you live in the city. If you can, head for a park. Even just 20 minutes in nature reduces your cortisol levels. Better yet, add Fascial Maneuvers and it will decrease even more. If you have a balcony, rooftop or garden, catching the sunrise can truly help your nervous system and fascia.

If you can't get into nature as often as you'd like, a PEMF mat is one of the most effective ways to bring nature's frequency indoors. PEMF therapy mimics the same frequency the earth naturally emits, so your fascia gets the grounding signal it's been missing without you leaving your home. Grounding mats and sheets are also really effective for reaping the benefits of grounding from inside your home.

The Japan Lesson

Japan understood something about our bodies and nature long before Western medicine caught up. Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing) has been a formal medical practice there since the 1980s. Doctors prescribe it.

Companies build it into employee wellness programs. All it involves is spending time in a forest, slowly, without an agenda.

The Japanese didn't need to measure the benefits to know they were real. Their bodies told them and yours will too. Your fascia responds to the natural environment in ways it simply cannot respond to a gym or a screen.
Making Nature a Non-Negotiable

Two hours a week in nature makes a measurable difference to your nervous system, your cortisol levels and your fascial health. That's less than 20 minutes a day!

Here's what that can look like in practice:

Morning: Get outside within 30 minutes of waking, even briefly. Catch the morning light before your screen catches you. If you have a balcony, garden or rooftop, bare feet on any surface outside counts.

During the day: Eat lunch outside when you can. Even a park bench with no phone counts as a nervous system reset. Your fascia will notice the difference!

After work: A 20 minute walk in a park before you come home discharges the EMF load from your day and signals to your nervous system that work is over. It's the transition your body needs that most people skip.

Weekends: Prioritize one longer nature immersion per week. Somewhere green, ideally with bare feet on the ground at some point.

Monthly: If you can, one half day or full day somewhere genuinely natural. The nervous system reset from a few hours in a forest, by water, or on open land is something no supplement or protocol can replicate.

One Final Thought

These past few weeks, we've covered a lot of ground. Phones, blue light, your home, your wearables. All of it pointing to the same thing: your body is processing more artificial signal than it was ever designed to handle, and your fascia is holding the weight of all of it.
Nature isn't something you squeeze in at the end of a stressful week when you remember. It's the original reset your body has been asking for the whole time. And the best part? It has always been free.

So what are you waiting for? Get outside. Shoes off. Let your body do the rest.

09/03/2026

Just do it! 💫 🧘‍♀️

From Marina Wright email:

What if a single nerve was the key to better sleep, digestion, mood, and stress resilience — all at once?

Meet the vagus nerve — the longest cranial nerve in your body, running from your brainstem down through your neck, chest, and abdomen, touching your heart, lungs, and gut along the way.

It might be the single most underrated player in your physical and mental health.

3 Jobs the Vagus Nerve Does For You

Digestion regulation — the vagus nerve directly controls the wave-like muscle contractions that move food through your gut, and triggers the release of digestive enzymes and stomach acid. It's a big reason chronic stress shows up as bloating, constipation, or reflux.

Mood regulation — roughly 80–90% of the vagus nerve's fibers carry signals from your gut and organs up to your brain, not the other way around. Your gut bacteria can influence those signals, which is part of why gut health is so closely tied to mood and anxiety.
Inflammation regulation — the vagus nerve releases a chemical messenger that helps keep your immune system's inflammatory response from running too hot. It's one of the more direct links between your nervous system and inflammation levels.

When vagal tone is strong, your body recovers from stress faster. When it's weak, stress lingers — often showing up as an elevated resting heart rate, low HRV, digestive issues, or poor sleep.

A lower resting heart rate and higher HRV are themselves signs of stronger vagal tone — part of why trackers like Oura, WHOOP, and Apple Watch highlight those numbers. Building cardiovascular fitness is one of the more overlooked ways to improve it.

5 Vagus Nerve Exercises to Try Today

Here are five simple, free ways to build vagal tone — pick one or two to start:

Deep, diaphragmatic breathing —

Breathe into your belly, not your chest, with long, slow exhales (try 4 counts in, 8 counts out). This directly stimulates the vagus nerve as it runs through the diaphragm.

Humming or singing —

The vibration in your throat activates the branches of the vagus nerve connected to your vocal cords. Try it in the shower.

Cold water on your face —

Submerge your face in a bowl of cold or ice water for 20–30 seconds, or hold a cold pack against your eyes and forehead. This triggers the mammalian dive reflex, a well-documented vagal response that slows your heart rate almost immediately.

Gargling —

Gargle water vigorously for 30 seconds, once or twice a day (right after brushing your teeth is an easy trigger to stack it onto).

Move your body —

This one's a longer game: consistent aerobic exercise is one of the most well-established ways to raise your baseline vagal tone over time, through higher HRV and a lower resting heart rate. It won't shift things in the next five minutes like the others on this list, but it's arguably the best-proven lever you have long-term.

08/29/2026

This is such a straight forward explanation that it’s worth reading. Just do it! 🧘‍♀️

A Basic Meditation to Strengthen Neural Connections

Rewire your brain so that mindfulness and compassion are the automatic response to stress.

Christopher Willard May 2, 2016

We are all born with a specific set of physical parameters, but if we eat right, take care of ourselves, and work out, we can build muscle, flexibility, and endurance. The same is true for our minds: We can change our brain, boosting concentration, flexibility, and intelligence and building new neural pathways and networks, by working out our brain, particularly with mindfulness and related practices.

Take a moment right now to try this basic mindfulness meditation for yourself. Before you begin, adopt a posture that is both comfortable and sustainable for a few minutes, and then set a timer for three minutes.

First, bring your awareness to an anchor: sensations or movement in your body, the breath, ambient sounds, counting, or even an image you found powerful or calming. Anything can be the anchor for your attention. Just invite your mind to rest there.
Pretty soon, you will notice your mind begin to wander. That is completely normal. Each time you notice it wandering, notice where it goes and then gently guide your awareness back to your anchor.

Pretty simple, right? So simple, in fact, that it might seem like you’re not doing very much. But don’t be fooled. Every aspect of this practice is building the muscles of your mind. In fact, one of my patients even likes to use the image of his brain getting a little bit bigger with each moment of mindfulness.

5 Ways You’re Strengthening Your Mind When You Practice Meditation:

Each time you focus on or return to the anchor, you are building your concentration

Each time you focus on the anchor, you detach from your thought stream. This is a practice of letting go in the moment, which translates to letting go in the rest of the world.

Each time you notice that the mind is wandering, that is the moment of mindfulness—not a moment of failure.

Each time you are kind to yourself when your mind wanders, instead of criticizing yourself, you are exercising and strengthening your self-compassion for challenging moments in the rest of your daily life.

Each time you notice where the mind is wandering, that is an opportunity for insight into your mind’s habits and patterns—what we might call wisdom or self-understanding. �
Each of the mental actions in this practice strengthens neural connections that, with practice, rewire your brain, over time making mindfulness and compassion the automatic response to stress. As the saying goes, “neurons that fire together, wire together,” and in this case, these are the concentration neurons, the awareness neurons, and the compassion and self-compassion neurons. We could all probably use a few more of those in our brains.

Over time, through mindfulness practice, we can build a map of the mind, notice our habitual thought patterns, and develop patience and compassion for our minds, ourselves and the world around us.

This article was adapted from Dr. Christopher Willard’s book Growing Up Mindful.

Rewire your brain so that mindfulness and compassion are the automatic response to stress.

08/25/2026

This study originally made me wonder. I knew Vitamin Retailer Magazine would give me the excellent counterpoint.

I’ve only posted the counterpoint. You can click the link for the full story:

Industry Criticizes Study On Glucosamine Supplements and Alzheimer’s Disease

“In my opinion, the conclusion of the study is unsound because patients with arthritis commonly exhibit cognitive decline over time. It is far more likely that the chronic arthritis pain caused the increased dementia, not the glucosamine,” Teitelbaum explained.

He added at least three previous reports show no or negative associations between glucosamine use and dementia, with one suggesting cognitive benefits. Large-scale epidemiological research, including the UK Biobank, indicates regular glucosamine supplementation is correlated with a 15-39 percent lower risk of mortality from all causes.

“Increased risk of dementia is especially prominent in arthritis pain. Effectively treating pain is a critical part of decreasing Alzheimer’s risk, and this can be achieved by treating four key components of pain,” Teitelbaum said.

The Natural Products Association (NPA) also responded to the study, stating that while researchers disclosed these preliminary results would require human clinical validation, they “omitted a number of key confounding factors.”

“There is no conclusive evidence that glucosamine dietary supplements increase the likelihood of death within a specific time frame or accelerate progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease,” said NPA President and CEO Daniel Fabricant, PhD. “The researchers’ analysis of patients’ electronic health records does not establish causality, and they did not account for hidden variables or confounding factors, such as diets high in ultra-processed foods or advanced glycation end products (AGEs).”

Foods high in AGEs—usually heavily cooked, browned or highly processed meats and fats—contribute to oxidative stress and promote protein clumping in the brain found in Alzheimer’s patients, according to NPA.

“While the analysis controlled for age, s*x and demographics, the study leaves too many unanswered questions about variables other than glucosamine supplements that may have contributed to a progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia,” Fabricant said. “This includes but is not limited to frequent consumption of ultra-processed, sugary foods, which are theorized to accelerate the type of metabolic defect described in the study. Until human clinical research is conducted to eliminate such confounders, we urge consumers of glucosamine supplements to be circumspect about the study’s preliminary findings.

On June 9, neuroscientists from the University of Florida (UF) claimed they found an association between taking glucosamine supplements and a higher likelihood of progressing from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease.

08/25/2026

My good friend Bonnie Kaye Schulz shared this. She’s an amazing human being. I’m honored to know her. She owns Happy Heart Yoga Studio.

Thanks for sharing Bonnie!

saxonkent

08/24/2026

This is so true. And we all know when we’re running on empty but still pushing on. Here’s to taking care of ourselves remembering that everything we do adds up. ❤️🙏

What you do in private always shows in public, and this is such good news.

Your diet shows in your energy. Your diet shows in your skin. Your diet shows in your confidence. Your diet shows in your results.

The whole foods you eat when no one’s watching…the vegetables, the healthy fats, the clean proteins, they don’t just disappear. They become the clarity you feel at 2pm instead of brain fog. They become the natural glow people notice. They become steady energy that lasts all day, not the crash-and-burn cycle of processed foods and sugar.

You can’t fake real nourishment. Your body tells the truth. Feed it real food, and it shows. Skip the nutrients it needs, and that shows too.

You are what you cultivate when no one is watching. And every single meal is either building you up or breaking you down. Choose foods that serve you.

08/12/2026

I subscribe to many emails. I also fully believe in affirmations and intentions. (As Wayne Dyer used to say: if it’s true placebo, I’ll take two! 😉)

That being said, the opening paragraph is from one of my emails and it so inspired me that I looked up the magical article with suggestions below.

If it’s too woo woo, just keep scrolling. But as I’ve written and quoted about magic, “If you don’t believe in magic, your life will not be magical.” And:

Roald Dahl's quote: "Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it." 💫
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Glamour is the oldest enchantment we know, the art of shaping how we are perceived by first shaping how we perceive ourselves. This is a season of adornment: of anointing the pulse points, of dressing with intention, of catching your own eye in the mirror and deciding what you'll carry into the room. Through simple acts of tending, we enchant the vessel that moves through the world, trusting that what we anoint with intention will announce us in kind.
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Now part of the article—enjoy!

Glamour magick is all about using beauty, fashion, and personal care as tools for enchantment. It’s not just about looking good—it’s about feeling powerful, confident, and in control of your energy. Whether you’re casting a spell with your lipstick or setting an intention with your perfume, glamour magick lets you infuse everyday rituals with mystical energy. It’s subtle, powerful, and deeply personal. Fashion& Style

Contrary to popular belief, glamour magick isn’t about faking something—it’s about enhancing what’s already there. It’s a way to highlight your natural beauty, amplify your aura, and present yourself to the world in alignment with your inner magic. Whether you’re stepping into a room with an air of mystery, radiating warmth, or commanding attention, glamour witchcraft lets you shape how energy flows around you.

The best part? You don’t need expensive products or rare ingredients to practice it. Everything from the colors you wear to the way you style your hair can become a form of spellwork. A swipe of lipstick can be a confidence spell, a spritz of perfume can set an intention, and even your morning skincare routine can be a ritual of self-love and protection. It’s all about using what you already have in a more intentional way.

So, if you’re ready to add a little extra sparkle to your everyday life, here are 50 glamour witch tips to help you weave magic into your beauty routine. Some are simple, some are a little extra, but all of them will help you glow—inside and out.

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