Slow Down to Live Deeply

The image one has of success and glory is someone speaking on a stage, holding a microphone. Schools have courses in communication, how to speak perfectly, and how to debate well, while social media is providing us means to express ourselves in countless ways.

There is so much to absorb if we slow down and pay attention but we only interested in pushing our realities away; only concerned with doing whatever we can to avoid confronting that monkey in our heads. We continually want for more even though we never find ourselves satisfied. Doesn’t that in i...

Modern medicine is much better at treating "fast" causes of death like infections and trauma than "slow" causes like heart disease, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases.

These chronic "slow" diseases actually begin dev...