Medicinal Moksha

11/20/2025

After pressure from the HHS and growing public awareness, one of the largest food companies in the world is quietly reformulating its most iconic brands.

This didn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of millions of people asking harder questions about what’s in their food, why it’s there, and whether it belongs in the bodies of children.

When companies make changes like this, they aren’t doing it because it’s good for health. They’re doing it because the pressure finally outweighs the risk of staying the same.

If Big Food can clean up its chips, imagine what else they could fix if consumers refused to settle for harmful, unnecessary ingredients. Imagine what would happen if the entire industry prioritized human health instead of hyper-palatable products engineered for profit?

Removing dyes IS progress. But it’s also a reminder of how much work is left to do. Real change starts when we stop accepting the bare minimum and start demanding better from the companies shaping our food supply.

This is just the beginning.

11/19/2025

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11/14/2025

Sometimes people find that being tender and raw is threatening and seemingly exhausting. Openness seems demanding and energy-consuming, so they prefer to cover up their tender heart. Vulnerability can sometimes make you nervous. It is uncomfortable to feel so real, so you want to numb yourself. You look for some kind of anesthetic, anything that will provide you with entertainment. Then you can forget the discomfort of reality. People don’t want to live with their basic rawness for even fifteen minutes. When people say they are bored, often they mean that they don’t want to experience the sense of emptiness, which is also an expression of openness and vulnerability. So they pick up the newspaper or read anything else that’s lying around the room—even reading what it says on a cereal box to keep themselves entertained. The search for entertainment to babysit your boredom soon becomes legitimized as laziness. Such laziness actually involves a lot of exertion. You have to constantly crank things up to occupy yourself with, overcoming your boredom by indulging in laziness. For the warrior, fearlessness is the opposite of that approach. Fearlessness is a question of learning how to be. Be there all along: that is the message. That is quite challenging in what we call the setting-sun world, the world of neurotic comfort where we use everything to fill up the space.
— Chogyam Trungpa, from “Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery”

11/14/2025

"If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself. This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch."

~Victoria Erickson

11/14/2025

Are you guilty of sleeping next to your cell phone?

These devices put out invisible electromagnetic fields (EMFs) that interact with your body’s electrical fields in the brain, heart, and deep in the cells.

In addition to disrupting sleep, EMF exposure may play a role in:
-High blood pressure
-High pulse rate
-Decreased cognitive function (memory, focus, and concentration)
-Increased inflammation
-Mood changes
-Increased risk of stroke
-Increased risk of heart attack
-DNA damage

For this reason, it’s important to keep your cell phone and other devices away from your body whenever possible, especially while sleeping.

11/12/2025

" is a love affair with the unknown."
-Osho

11/08/2025

Data snapshots show hopeful—and worrying—trends in U.S. kids’ health.