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Holding It In The most efficient breathers in the world are babies. Watch a baby breathe—full belly, open chest, soft and natural. Nothing held back. Nothing hidden. Just presence. But as we grow, something changes. We learn to hold it in. How It Starts As toddlers, we are redirected, praised, or corrected. Approval and disapproval begin to shape us, teaching us which expressions are “welcome.” As young children, we learn the rules of our environment. We tuck away tears, fear

Is It a Business or Is It a Hobby? This is the question I’ve been asking myself for the past year and a half. The Nature Within has always been more than a business — it’s a lifestyle, a passion, and a sacred reflection of who I am. It was never something meant to be sold, branded, or marketed through a commercial lens. It was born from a deep need to heal, to reconnect, and to rediscover joy. Over the past month, I’ve reflected deeply on how something that began so purely —

There Are No Shortcuts to Long-Lasting Peace Whether you are just learning ways to reset your nervous system or you’ve been practicing for years, it’s natural to want the quickest way possible. We live in a culture that values efficiency and convenience—apps that deliver food in minutes, one-click orders, instant communication. But when it comes to inner peace, shortcuts don’t work. True peace doesn’t come from bypassing our feelings, distracting ourselves, or numbing symptom

Verse 10 of the Tao Te Ching: Patience, Breath, and Letting Go At the beginning of 2025, I set a simple but meaningful goal: to spend time with Verse 10 of the Tao Te Ching. Not in a rigid, disciplined way, but in a way that allowed space for flow—sometimes reading slowly, line by line, and other times skimming it to see what spoke to me in the moment. What has surprised me is that no matter how I approached it, this verse always circled me back to the same truth: patience. P

This may be a little out there for some, but here we go… Don’t get me wrong, I love, and am grateful for, the sunrise… But I’m a sunset guy. “I’m a Sunset Guy” - it’s one of the inspirations of the design of my logo for The Nature Within, LLC This was taken in Maine at Acadia National Park- this is the backdrop for my logo There’s something about sunsets that never fails to pull me in. Maybe it’s because they carry both an ending and a beginning in their glow. They remind us

Coming Home, Again. And Again… Coming home is a process….A humbling one. This is the process of coming back to the place where things just make sense. It’s a feeling of the heart rather than an intellectualized one. It’s the slow, tender journey of finding our way back to that inner place — the one that knows when change must happen. It’s where our lessons live, tucked gently inside the hidden corners of the heart. These lessons are our treasures. They guide us back to peace.