Wisdom Well doesn't offer a lot of blog posts on our bodies and physical wellness. I feel that we're barraged enough with anti-aging messages, many of which can be exclamatory—take this or take that if you don't want to be a goner! I'm tired of those hyperbolic messages.

Following up from yesterday, today's title offers a simple, provocative question that challenges the typical societal narrative that says: You can't grow and age at the same time.

Curing aging is a popular narrative amongst the tech and finance intelligentsia, even though we haven’t cured the common cold yet, or cancer, or Alzheimer’s. Of course, it doesn’t matter. The 1-percenters want more years added onto their lives, and so the “live forever” research gets more and more funding.

I gave a talk in Charleston, South Carolina, not long ago to a company that had asked me about the qualities I most admire in great organizations.

Here's an excerpt from a chapter called "Stewards of Light" from a book in progress by our Mastery Faculty member Mark Nepo called "The Long Walk Through Time." Lucky us to be able to see an early version before it's published.

Chakra: in ancient Sanskrit, chakra means "wheel" and refers to energy centers in our bodies

I’m betting most of us tune up our cars every year or two. The same way we regularly tune up our bodies through meditation, massage, or some other somatic treatment. But how often do we recalibrate our emotions and nervous system?

I was fortunate enough to be asked by the six founders of Burning Man to join their inaugural non-profit Board a dozen years ago.

If you knew you only had five years left to live and money and time were not a problem, where would you visit and why? As I say in this video from Fly Ranch Geyser at the end of the blog post, your passion isn't just something you care deeply about, it's something you're willing to sacrifice for.

"I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona."