Author: Kelly Williams
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Engineering the Human Foyer (Part 2)
The Forgotten Purpose of the Foyer for the Nervous SystemIf the foyer performs such an important function in our physical lives, then perhaps it deserves to be understood as something more than an architectural feature. Perhaps it is a design pattern. One that has quietly helped human beings navigate meaningful transitions for centuries. If that’s…
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Engineering Human Flourishing (Part 1)
The Forgotten Purpose of the FoyerWe rarely notice foyers. They’re simply there. The entrance to a hotel. The lobby of an office building. The waiting room before a doctor’s appointment. The gathering space before a wedding. The reception area at a yoga studio. The quiet hall before entering a funeral. They exist in nearly every…
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The Practices of Remembrance
If you’ve read the previous essays, you already know I believe the veil isn’t built all at once. It accumulates. Layer by layer. Every disappointment. Every fear. Every certainty. Every adaptation that once helped us survive. Which raises another question. If the veil naturally thickens… what thins it? I have come to believe humanity has…
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The Witness and the Wheel
There is a part of you that has been working tirelessly for as long as you have been alive. It learned to anticipate danger before you knew what danger was. It learned which words earned approval. Which mistakes carried consequences. Which parts of yourself felt safe to reveal. And which parts were better kept hidden.…
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The Nervous System Is the Body of the Soul
There are moments almost every human being has experienced. You wake moments before someone quietly enters the room. You suddenly think about someone you haven’t spoken to in years, only to discover they called later that day. You walk into a meeting and immediately sense tension before anyone has spoken. You meet a stranger and,…
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When the Veil Begins to Thin
For the past several years, I have been exploring what I have come to think of as a Renaissance of Remembrance. Not the remembrance of facts. The remembrance of ourselves. That journey has taken me through engineering, biology, hydration, fascia, yoga, meditation, neuroscience, resonance, and the ancient wisdom traditions. At first glance, they seem to…
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The Renaissance of Remembrance
How Human Coherence Changes the Future In the next thirty minutes,I’m going to teach you how to change your future —and, if enough of us do it together,we can change the future for all of us. If that sounds outrageous — good! It should.Because what I’m about to show you isn’t mysticism.It’s physics — the…
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Belonging
A young working mom stayed after yoga recently to share something that has lingered with me ever since. She told me she begins each day by repeating four words to herself. Words that remind her who she wants to be. One of those words is strong. Then she smiled and admitted something that seemed almost contradictory.…
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Where Does Their Energy Come From?
I was sitting at a stoplight when something unexpectedly caught my attention. In the distance, I could see the staircase leading up to one of the giant water slides at our local amusement park. Halfway up, a little girl stood waiting her turn. She wasn’t impatient. She wasn’t staring at the people ahead of her.…
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Identity
I’ve been thinking about the word identity lately. It’s one of those words we rarely question. We’re told to find it.Protect it.Express it.Stay true to it. But what if we’ve misunderstood what identity is for? I wonder if one of the greatest sources of suffering is that we build our identity around the last place we stopped…