fact or fiction
Is it a fact or is it merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the lesser known truths in the health and wellness world of Longevity.
Creation and Knowability: Why the Universe Proves a Mind Behind It
Everything that exists carries within it a trace of intention. Whether it is a tree bending toward sunlight, a planet held in perfect orbit, or a human mind capable of wondering why any of it exists at all, creation reveals purpose. The fact that the universe is understandable tells us something about the One who made it. Chaos does not create comprehension. Randomness does not produce reason.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Longevity
The Gift of Not Knowing: Finding Freedom in Uncertainty
In a culture obsessed with answers, plans, and certainty, the unknown often feels uncomfortable, even threatening. We crave clarity, control, and predictability, yet life rarely delivers them on demand. Meditation, however, teaches a different perspective: that there is profound freedom in embracing not knowing. By sitting with uncertainty rather than resisting it, we open ourselves to curiosity, creativity, and a deeper connection to the present moment.
By Jonse Grade3 months ago in Longevity
Emotional Weather: Letting Feelings Pass Like Clouds
Life is rarely a calm, clear sky. Emotions arrive uninvited, sometimes as gentle breezes, other times as heavy storms. We often try to control, suppress, or escape these feelings, believing that stability means eliminating discomfort. Yet, meditation offers a radically different perspective: what if emotions were not problems to fix, but weather patterns to observe? By learning to let feelings pass like clouds, we cultivate resilience, presence, and a deeper understanding of our inner landscape.
By Garold One3 months ago in Longevity
The Softening Practice: Meeting Yourself Where You Are
In the whirlwind of modern life, it’s easy to approach ourselves with judgment. We measure our worth by productivity, our value by outcomes, and our happiness by comparisons. Amid this constant striving, self-compassion often takes a backseat. Meditation offers an antidote — a space to soften, slow down, and meet ourselves exactly where we are, without trying to fix, change, or resist.
By Victoria Marse3 months ago in Longevity
When Peace Feels Uncomfortable: Learning to Receive Calm
We spend much of life chasing peace — yearning for a quiet mind, a soft heart, a sense of stillness that so often feels just out of reach. Yet when that peace finally arrives, it can feel strangely foreign. Instead of resting in calm, many of us grow restless. The stillness feels too quiet, the ease too unfamiliar. We look for something to fix, something to do. This is one of meditation’s most surprising lessons: sometimes, peace itself can be uncomfortable.
By Black Mark3 months ago in Longevity
Body as Compass: Navigating Emotion Through Sensation
In a world that constantly urges us to think, analyze, and decide, we often forget the quiet wisdom of the body — the way it feels truth before the mind can name it. The body, in its subtle language of tension and release, expansion and contraction, becomes a kind of compass. It points us not north or south, but inward — toward the truth of what we are actually feeling beneath the noise of thought.
By Marina Gomez3 months ago in Longevity
The Subtle Shift: How Small Movements Change Inner Space
There is a certain poetry in the smallest gestures — a quiet turn of the wrist, the slow unfurling of fingers, the way the chest subtly expands when a long-forgotten breath returns. These are not grand acts of transformation, yet they carry a power that reverberates through both body and mind. We tend to look for change in large, visible movements — the leap, the breakthrough, the turning point — but more often than not, it’s the delicate adjustments, the nearly invisible ones, that create the most profound shifts inside us.
By Jonse Grade3 months ago in Longevity
The Spine as River: Flowing Energy Through Alignment
The spine is more than a column of bones and nerves — it’s the living river of the body. It carries messages, breath, and energy between earth and sky, between instinct and awareness. When we move, breathe, or sit, this river either flows freely or becomes dammed by tension and habit. Most of us go through life without realizing how deeply our posture mirrors our inner state. A collapsed spine often accompanies fatigue or defeat; a rigid one signals control or fear. To align the spine is not merely to stand straight — it’s to remember our natural flow.
By Garold One3 months ago in Longevity
Hands as Anchors: Grounding Awareness Through Touch
We touch the world thousands of times a day — turning doorknobs, typing on keyboards, washing dishes, scrolling screens — yet how often do we actually feel what we’re touching? The hands are our most expressive tools, but they are also gateways to awareness. Within them lies an entire landscape of sensation — warmth, texture, pulse, vibration — that can draw us out of thought and into direct experience. When we learn to use touch as an anchor, the body becomes a living meditation cushion, always available, always now.
By Victoria Marse3 months ago in Longevity
The Language of the Body: Learning to Listen Without Words
The body speaks in a language far older than thought. It doesn’t use words or concepts, but sensation, rhythm, and movement. Before we learned to speak, before we learned to analyze, we knew how to feel — hunger, warmth, tension, safety, connection. Over time, as we filled our days with noise, logic, and distraction, we began to forget this language. We started treating the body like a tool — something to manage, improve, or silence — rather than a living messenger carrying profound wisdom.
By Black Mark3 months ago in Longevity
Breathing with the World: Inhale Connection, Exhale Separation
In the constant motion of our days, it’s easy to forget that breathing isn’t something we do alone. Each inhale we take is a quiet act of communion — an invisible thread that ties us to every living thing. The air filling your lungs this very moment has drifted through forests, over mountains, across oceans, and through the bodies of countless beings before you. Breathing is not ownership; it’s participation in the vast, ongoing exchange of life itself.
By Marina Gomez3 months ago in Longevity
Breathing with the World: Inhale Connection, Exhale Separation
In the constant motion of our days, it’s easy to forget that breathing isn’t something we do alone. Each inhale we take is a quiet act of communion — an invisible thread that ties us to every living thing. The air filling your lungs this very moment has drifted through forests, over mountains, across oceans, and through the bodies of countless beings before you. Breathing is not ownership; it’s participation in the vast, ongoing exchange of life itself.
By Marina Gomez3 months ago in Longevity
