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Something I wrote in an email recently and thought I'd share. It's nothing new, just putting in my own words a philosophy I deeply believe in .

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Humans evolved with a certain lifestyle and rhythm of life: living in close-knit social groups, sleeping/waking with the sun, alternating intense exercise with rest and lots of leisurely play, socializing, exploration. We're still pretty much the same organism... any time we start departing from the way nature made us, things start to go awry. Just because something is "normal" for these times, doesn't mean it's the right or healthy way. A "normal" health-conscious person spends the day under even artificial lights until he switches them off abruptly and expects to fall asleep. Stuffs food down his gullet at regular intervals. Exercises in movement patterns made for domesticated rodents and machines. Is chronically stressed - rarely peaking, never relaxed and worry-free. Pushes the round pin of relationships into the square hole of cost-benefit analyses. No wonder our bodies and minds become deranged.

Not saying we should all give up the advantages of modern technology and go live in a cave, or that we should forgo science as a tool for optimizing our health and quality of life. But I definitely think 200,000 years of homo sapiens should give us some guideline as to what things we can not leave out of our lives."

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Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple