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Whatever comes to mind. Sometimes a story I read, sometimes something that came to me while holding my mala beads.

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My Coworker Takes Melatonin Gummies. My Mother Sent Me a Foot-Soak Basin.
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My Coworker Takes Melatonin Gummies. My Mother Sent Me a Foot-Soak Basin.

A bottle of melatonin gummies from a business trip, a wooden foot-soak basin from my mother — two civilizations answering the same sleepless night. Melatonin shouts "it's dark!" on behalf of the body. Foot soaking invites a mind that has been sprinting all day to finally stop. Insomnia is often not a sleep problem; it's the day's unpaid bill, collected at night. Settle the heart first, then the eyes.

9/19/20269 min
A Friend Asked Why I Look Better Lately. I Said: I've Been Standing Still.
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A Friend Asked Why I Look Better Lately. I Said: I've Been Standing Still.

An 80-year-old TCM doctor taught me zhan zhuang — Chinese standing meditation. I didn't believe it at first. How can standing still heal anything? After 100 days, my insomnia is gone, my hands are warm, my temper softened. This is my honest record of those hundred days.

7/18/202611 min
The Breathing Technique a Daoist Monk Taught Me Cured My Three Years of Insomnia
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The Breathing Technique a Daoist Monk Taught Me Cured My Three Years of Insomnia

Three years of insomnia. Melatonin, white noise, counting sheep — nothing worked. Then I met a Daoist monk on Mount Qingcheng who taught me three breathing techniques. A month later, I was asleep in fifteen minutes.

7/15/20269 min