Mangos, Manipulating Time and Lilla Watson
April 20, 2025
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{Body}
Mangos: nature’s sleep enhancer
While most of us reach for chamomile tea or warm milk before bed (or even the Nyquil), there's a tropical fruit that’s much more effective…the ultimate natural sleep aid: mango.
This golden fruit contains a unique combination of compounds that work together to promote deep, restorative sleep. According to the Medical Medium, mangoes contain phytochemicals and amino acids such as glycine, glutamine, and cysteine that, when combined with the fruit's natural sugars, help restore depleted neurotransmitters in the brain.
Mangoes are particularly beneficial for those struggling with insomnia, as they provide the brain with the precise nutrients needed for sleep regulation. The bioavailable magnesium in mangoes helps calm the central nervous system, creating ideal conditions for rest.
Beyond sleep benefits, mangoes offer remarkable health properties. Their rich beta-carotene content supports skin health, while their enzyme combinations help soothe digestive issues. Medical Medium also highlights how mangoes may help stabilize blood sugar levels and provide anti-inflammatory support.
{Mind}
Manipulating time using meditation
Einstein proved that time is relative. In fact, in his theory of special relativity, he demonstrated that time actually moves slightly slower for someone traveling at high speeds compared to the nearby, stationary observer.
You don't need a spacecraft traveling near light speed to experience time's elasticity, though. Your nervous system creates its own relativistic effects all the time.
When adrenaline floods your body, for instance, time seems longer — this is why people describe car accidents as "occurring in slow motion," why cresting a rollercoaster seems to take forever, or why waiting in line feels interminable when you're anxious or excited.
Or how time flies when you're having fun. When you're engaged in enjoyable activities, you're focused on the experience itself rather than monitoring the clock. As a result, your brain creates fewer "time stamps" in memory, causing hours to feel like minutes.
The lesson here is simple yet profound: time isn't the rigid construct you imagine it to be. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc. are handy tools to measure the passage of space, not an objective yard stick to make sense of the world.
Interestingly, you can actually learn to manipulate your subjective experience of time through meditation, speeding it up or slowing it down on-command.
This is just as neurological as it is mystical. By reducing stress hormones in your body and changing your brain's attentional patterns, you can experience time compression — where an hour of meditation feels like mere minutes.
Or by intentionally activating your sympathetic nervous system through heightened attention and norepinephrine release, you can experience time dilation — making a singular ecstatic moment feel like an eternity.
Practice with me below, but keep in mind that this is the last week these meditations will be free. Going forward, you’ll need a Plus + membership ($7/month) to access them.
{Soul}
The future is as collective as it is unitary. Our future, not just my future.
It is no longer appropriate or wise for you to blindly play follow the leader — to worship idols above the Real Thing.
You and I both need to be deeply invested and devoted to love if we are to going to get through this bumpy moment in history.
This doesn’t mean you have to know precisely where you’re going or that the intuition of others is untrustworthy. It simply means that now — more than ever — humanity needs you to find your authentic voice and use it.
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