If you’re someone who wakes in the night and worries that something is wrong, consider the possibility that nothing is wrong at all. It may be that your body remembers something ancient.
Your body is not your enemy in midlife or older age. It’s trying to tell you something. It wants longer evenings without food. It wants a break from constant digestion. It wants the chance to clean up yesterday’s cellular mess before today’s begins. When you give it that space, everything becomes easier.
Once we pass around 60, the systems in the brain and body that govern thirst lose their previous sensitivity. The hypothalamic osmoreceptors that once reacted quickly to rising sodium levels or falling fluid volume just don’t sound the alarm the way they used to.
These tools don’t replace honesty, vulnerability, or emotional maturity. But they help create the internal space where those qualities can emerge. They unstick the patterns that keep couples spinning in circles.
Across spiritual traditions, mythologies, and even modern psychology, there is a recurring truth: it is through our wounds that we awaken. The pain we carry — when held consciously — becomes the very seed of our transformation.
One intriguing implication is that our personal bioelectric field might be shaped by the world around us. Environmental factors such as diet, stress, and exposure to toxins are already known to influence epigenetics — the way genes are expressed.
All the traumas we experience in life leave their wounds. If humankind hadn’t had ways of healing from those emotional and psychological blows, over time society would have become progressively less functional. Instead, history shows us that people usually recover even from the most severe psychological wounds.
As humans have become more and more successful at ridding themselves of parasites — particularly intestinal worms — we have developed a whole host of conditions associated with inflammation, particularly of the bowel. Could the parasitic worms humans coexisted and evolved with over millennia resolve some of our modern day epidemics?
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