Before we had names, we were carried through time.
Inside our mothers, and inside the long, unbroken line of women before them, we were held by bodies that knew longing, sacrifice, pain, tenderness, and the fierce decision to keep life moving forward.
Today, I share my gratitude to the mothers here with us, to the foremothers whose faces I may never know, but whose breath still moves through me. Thank you to every person who mothered us in ways that did not begin with birth, but still became love.
And thank you to every flame of life that found me, left me, and held me. You taught me what love is, what love gives, and how deeply a heart can be changed by being needed.
@sciencegirl If he were more encouraging and not just turning his back indicating decline of help, then I would like that. But this way - it achieves something good, but damages and harms as well.
@MitoPsychoBio Levy BR, Slade MD. Aging Redefined: Cognitive and Physical Improvement with Positive Age Beliefs. Geriatrics. 2026; 11(2):28. https://t.co/LLqrFcAWGr
@cusciofhealth@cdsuqam Alan, I complained about how negatively, manipulatively/suggestively aging is portrayed as decline never as an evolutionary attainment. I get support now for the damage done by this manipulation from here:
Levy BR, Slade MD. Aging Redefined: https://t.co/LLqrFcAWGr
@MitoPsychoBio@Dr_Epel Two or three great persons meeting. McEwen's contributions are invaluable. Elissa Epel's research opened doors and fostered so many young minds! And now you and your eye-opening research on how energy flow is the interface between mind and physiology!! Absolutely brilliant.
@MitoPsychoBio Prana - energy that stimulates neural and ns function
Apana – downward energy movement.
Vyana – that energy which spreads or diffuses all over the whole body
Udana – the energy/ breath which moves upward
Samana – that which digests & nourishes our body,
@MitoPsychoBio Then there are descending tracts and in Ayurveda the five pranas or vital energy flows: prana, apana, samana, udana and vyana energies regulating oxygenation, circulation, elimination, childbbirth, digestion, neural & brain functions etc. All flow of consciousness, life force.
@MitoPsychoBio Energy or vital life force is related to prana. According to the science of Yoga, this life force travels through the energy centers of the spine up the ascending tracts in the spine to the brain stem to thalamus and then cortex.
@MitoPsychoBio We could define alertness, wakefulness as silent dynamism, silent energy - like a racer standing in the starting block, waiting, but ready to run any moment, perhaps.
@MitoPsychoBio Energy has dynamism in it. There is a dynamism that is combined with silence, silent dynamism, lke in the superfluid vacuum state. There is energy that can be infinite dynamism where when energy is shared or travelling it is already arriving - instantaneously.
@MitoPsychoBio incoherent, fragmented functioning of brain - how to explain those energy blockages, not energy resistance but block of energy flow across modular structures or networks?
@MitoPsychoBio in the chest area.... Neuroscience says it all comes form the brain, but it is felt in the chest. Euphorea when listening to music or attending a sports' event e.g.
@MitoPsychoBio Athletes may have more mitochondria in certain physiolog. areas. Mainly mentally active persons have other domains of mitoch. accumulations. I wonder about the energy centers that have been known in the ancient science of Yoga. Why e.g. o we feel love and happiness powerfully
@MitoPsychoBio One aspect that comes to my mind is energy hubs in the ody. Martin has shown that evolutionary higher evolved brain areas have ore mitochndria and that mitochondria accumulation difefres from one person to another according to erhaps what is called dharma , i.e. mission, calling