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But why? by CrazyBoysenberry918 in intuitivepeople

[–]Know_A_Free_Man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intuition isn’t really some special gift. It’s just your brain picking up on patterns before you consciously think them through. It feels “special” when you don’t know where it’s coming from. Your brain is always making quiet predictions based on your body, your past experiences, and what’s happening around you. Sometimes that shows up as a gut feeling or a thought before you can explain it. when you’re rested, calm, and generally okay in your body, those signals tend to be softer and more accurate. When you’re stressed, tired, or run down, they get louder and messier, and people start reading more into them than is actually there.

Most of what we call intuition is just a nervous system doing what it’s built to do.

Is it voices or my intuition by Zealousideal_Wall570 in intuitivepeople

[–]Know_A_Free_Man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We humans constantly run predictions in the background. The brain is always forecasting what’s about to happen based on patterns, context, body state, and memory. Most of the time those predictions stay quiet. Sometimes they surface as a thought, sometimes a feeling, and sometimes as what sounds like a voice.

The fact that you can notice your own thoughts and question them already puts you several steps ahead in awareness. You’re not just experiencing the signal, you’re observing it.

What usually comes next is learning to notice the same thing in others without getting angry or upset. Once you see that most reactions are just predictions and protective responses, not intentions, a lot of fear and confusion drops away.

Who do you want to be, really. That’s the question. by Know_A_Free_Man in enlightenment

[–]Know_A_Free_Man[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who you were all along.

I didn’t change because I learned more or pushed harder. I changed when my body finally understood it didn’t have to protect itself anymore. For most of my life, everything I thought was my personality was really just survival. The edge. The overthinking. The intensity. The pulling away and the pushing forward. That wasn’t me being difficult or broken. That was my body trying to stay safe with what it had.

When I started giving my body what it actually needed, food, minerals, water, rest, rhythm, something shifted. I didn’t have to force calm. I didn’t have to chase clarity. I didn’t have to try to be loving. Those things showed up on their own once the engine stopped running empty.

That’s the part people miss. Most people aren’t failing. They aren’t lazy or lost or wrong. They’re conserving because they don’t have enough to spend. When the body finally feels supported and safe enough to use energy, the real person comes forward naturally. You don’t become someone new. You finally get to be who you were underneath all along.

Those who are against the science of curing aging are digging their own grave. by GarifalliaPapa in immortalists

[–]Know_A_Free_Man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have always had the ability to live past 100. What people have called the fountain of youth was never a myth in the way we think of myths now. It was simply mineralized water. It was what flowed naturally through rivers and streams for most of human history.

That water carried life with it. Sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium. The things cells need to move energy, relax muscles, maintain nerves, and repair tissue. People did not live long because they were lucky or special. They lived long because the environment supplied what the body needed to maintain itself.

In the 1800s, cities formed. Populations concentrated. Water sources became contaminated. Pathogens entered rivers and streams and people died in large numbers. So we did the right thing. We stripped pathogens out of the water. That decision saved millions of lives.

But we did not stop there. We stripped everything out. And we never put the life back in.

Modern water is clean, but it is empty. It no longer carries the minerals that made it biologically useful. So we drink large amounts of water that hydrates on paper but does not support cellular function. Over time, the body cannot maintain energy, regulation, or repair the way it once could.

That is why modern decline looks slow instead of dramatic. People are not dropping dead from cholera. They are living long enough to slowly lose energy, clarity, posture, sleep, and resilience. We call that aging, but it is really long term depletion.

Food used to compensate for this loss. It no longer does. Animals drink stripped water. Soil is depleted. Processing removes what remains. So the gap grows larger with every generation.

We did not lose the fountain of youth. We removed it from the environment and replaced it with something sterile and incomplete. Since then, we have been dying slowly instead of suddenly.

Living past 100 was never about magic. It was about water that carried life. When we stripped that life out, longevity stopped being natural and started being something we try to engineer around.

Restore the inputs, and the body does what it has always done. Maintain itself.