Shinrin Yoku NY Forest Therapy Nature Immersion

10/31/2025

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When You Don't Have Time, Pause

In this busy world
you may not feel you have time to slow down.
Hours rush past,
a blur of noise and tasks,
and you tell yourself
that rest can wait.

When your thoughts are tangled,
when your breath feels shallow,
when the day presses hard against you,
pause.
When you don't have time, that's when you need it most, pause.

Even for a few moments.
Let your shoulders drop,
unclench your jaw,
and listen
to the quiet that still lives
beneath the noise.

You don’t have to step away for long.
Start with a single breath,
a sip of something warm.
Notice the morning light
filtering through the trees outside.
Feel the soft weight of a blanket
around your shoulders.
Simply be,
right here, right now.

These small pauses are enough.
They remind you
that life isn’t only about doing, achieving, or moving forward.
It’s about being,
breathing,
returning to yourself.

Slowing down
doesn’t mean falling behind.
It means meeting the day with presence,
carrying quiet steadiness
into everything you do.

Even a few moments
can reset the world inside you,
letting calm bloom quietly,
patiently,
in the simplicity of this moment.

~ 'Whe You Don't Have Time, Pause' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Heather Stillufsen

10/30/2025

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10/30/2025

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Scientists from Kyoto University have discovered that human cells can actually respond to sound waves changing gene activity, physical behavior, and even decisions about becoming fat. When researchers played pure tones, like 440 Hz and 14 kHz, directly into cell cultures, the cells reacted within hours. Over 140 genes linked to inflammation, stress, and repair altered their expression, suggesting that sound isn’t just noise it’s a physical force our bodies can feel and interpret.

Even more fascinating, continuous sound exposure reduced the activity of two key fat-forming genes (Cebpa and Pparg) by more than 70%. In other words, the tones stopped stem cells from turning into fat cells. While it’s still early research, this study opens the door to exploring how sound could influence healing, metabolism, or even future acoustic therapies showing that the language of life might also be spoken in vibrations.

Source/Credit: Kyoto University / Biophysical Journal (2024)

10/28/2025

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There are so many relaxing sounds for you to enjoy. From the Native American flute to the Andean flute, both different sounds but calming. There is also the soothing beat of a drum sounding like the heartbeat of our Mother. Another sound to help you unwind is the Singing Bowl. Whether made of metal or glass it can lull you into a place of peace. The natural sound of water running through a creek or the wind dancing through the treetops is also a gentle sound. Relax to soothing sounds today before your busy weekend starts

10/27/2025

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10/25/2025

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This is my simple religion..

10/25/2025

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Trump just gave away America’s last wild frontier — to Big Oil. It’s the largest giveaway of public land to fossil fuel companies in modern history. The announcement, made Thursday by Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, opens 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge wilderness to oil and gas drilling.

Burgum bragged that “Alaska is open for business,” calling it a win for “energy independence.” Translation: the Arctic is open for destruction.

And this isn’t just about drilling in the Arctic. Trump’s team also reissued permits for the Ambler Road Project — a 211-mile industrial road slicing through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, home to more than 200,000 migratory birds and dozens of tribal communities that rely on the land for hunting and fishing.

Thirty-nine Alaskan villages and 37 tribes have already said no. Trump didn’t care.
As if that weren’t enough, the White House also greenlit new oil and gas lease sales across the National Petroleum Reserve, reversing Biden’s 2024 decision to expand protections there.

Let that sink in: during a government shutdown, when public workers go unpaid, Trump found time to hand Big Oil the keys to the Arctic — and the shovels to dig its grave.

Environmental groups are furious — and rightly so.
“The Arctic Refuge is the crown jewel of our public lands system,” said the Alaska Wilderness League. “Opening it to drilling would destroy one of the most ecologically significant landscapes on Earth.”

The Sierra Club called it what it is: “A collective wrecking ball aimed at fragile Alaskan ecosystems, all to boost the bottom lines of CEOs.”

And the Gwich’in people, whose ancestors have protected this land for millennia, called it a “direct assault on our culture, our food security, and our future.”
This isn’t about jobs. It’s not about energy independence. It’s about greed — pure and simple.

Trump’s “America First” energy plan is really Planet Last.

He’s trading caribou for campaign checks, glaciers for gas wells, and Indigenous rights for profit margins.

If this makes you angry, you’re paying attention. Because when Trump says “America is open for business,” what he really means is: our future is for sale.

10/22/2025

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10/20/2025

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Most people don’t realize how powerful touching a tree while barefoot can be (it can change your life in just 15 minutes) 💬👀👇