Posts connected by the renewal tag.
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At Ranger camp we said 'be prepared: physically, mentally, and spiritually.' Physical has a home in the body. Mental has a home in the higher brain. But where does spiritual live? A secular look at how the feelings we call spiritual are the felt output of older social and emotional systems, and what the soul might be once you stop treating it as a mystery.
Health is a continuous Quest Engine loop: Search for signals from the body, Drive one controlled change, and Renew from the difference between expected and actual results.
More than a decade ago I burned out badly, and the obvious story (too many hours) turned out to be wrong. Burnout wasn't the work I did; it was the control I lost over where my time went, and everything the work made impossible outside of it.
Morpheus told Neo there is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. That's two-thirds of a triad. The third move is returning — when you connect the dots, give back what the walk taught you, and become someone who can show others the way.