docs/contributing/index.md

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docs/practices/daily-sadhana.md

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 To start, pick the one with the most impact, often anger. The goal is not to become perfect — it is to become less impulsive, more available, more unconditionally loving. Starting with yourself is key. Notice your thought patterns and how you speak to yourself. Do you scold yourself over a trivial mistake? How might you extend and deepen your patience toward yourself?
 
-??? question "A simple evening practice"
+??? question "A simple evening practice"\
-
 Sit quietly and replay the day. Notice any moment where you contracted — irritation, defensiveness, avoidance. Don't judge the reaction. Just see it. Tomorrow, you'll have another chance. If you like you can journal your reflections and over time you may see just by noticing them things have started to resolve.
 
-After reviewing the key area you'd like to work on you can use auto-suggestion to improve it.
+After reviewing the key area you'd like to work on you can use auto-hypnosis to improve it.
 
 ***
 

docs/practices/nourishing-the-body.md

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 # Nourishing the Body
 
 The body is a highly sophisticated ecosystem that responds to everything you place in it, on it, and around it.
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 ??? info "Dive deeper"
 
-```text
+    The body is comprised of a fine balance of elements in different frequencies and states. These are a reflection of the state of the underlying aether at phases and degrees of motion. For instance solid materials are heavy, dense and even though it appears inert, their molecules are actually moving, albeit very slowly. Whereas when these molecules are heated, they undergo a dissolution of the bonds (which are really not a solid thing either, more an electrostatic coupling), and they 'melt' and move from solid to liquid and eventually to a gas and residue (solid aggregate byproduct). If we take more descriptive names to the states we could say the solid "earth" moves through liquid "water" by a process called "fire" and transforms into a gas called "air". Really all these states are part of one all encompassing consciousness and energy, the essence of which is plasma or "aether" as named in Ancient Greek. Modern science disregards this final point, owing to an experiment in 1887 called the Michelson Morley experiment, however this does not actually disprove the existence aether. You can read more about this at Aether Force Blog
-The body is comprised of a fine balance of elements in different frequencies and states. These are a reflection of the state of the underlying aether at phases and degrees of motion. For instance solid materials are heavy, dense and even though it appears inert, their molecules are actually moving, albeit very slowly. Whereas when these molecules are heated, they undergo a dissolution of the bonds (which are really not a solid thing either, more an electrostatic coupling), and they 'melt' and move from solid to liquid and eventually to a gas and residue (solid aggregate byproduct). If we take more descriptive names to the states we could say the solid "earth" moves through liquid "water" by a process called "fire" and transforms into a gas called "air". Really all these states are part of one all encompassing consciousness and energy, the essence of which is plasma or "aether" as named in Ancient Greek. Modern science disregards this final point, owing to an experiment in 1887 called the Michelson Morley experiment, however this does not actually disprove the existence aether. You can read more about this at Aether Force Blog
-```
 
-***
+---
 
 ## Food from farmers, gardens and your plant pots, not corporations
 
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 !!! warning "The supermarket trap"
 
-```text
+    Nearly every aisle in a conventional supermarket funnels money into a handful of conglomerates. The [documentary on monopolies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLZV5EesNNI) covers how all the big brand food items are owned by a handful of conglomerates and VC firms and is worth watching to see how it is possible that near everything in your Walgreens or 7 eleven has been engineered for profit and without your best interest or health at heart. You could also see Pam Peeke's fantastic lecture on the Hacked and Hijacked brain on how fast food acts like cocaine on the dopamine centres of the brain, and how to reset via meditation. Start by removing one aisle at a time from your routine and soon you'll feel your taste buds catching up to your desire for healthy organic and fresh natural food and drinks.
-Nearly every aisle in a conventional supermarket funnels money into a handful of conglomerates. The [documentary on monopolies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLZV5EesNNI) covers how all the big brand food items are owned by a handful of conglomerates and VC firms and is worth watching to see how it is possible that near everything in your Walgreens or 7 eleven has been engineered for profit and without your best interest or health at heart. You could also see Pam Peeke's fantastic lecture on the Hacked and Hijacked brain on how fast food acts like cocaine on the dopamine centres of the brain, and how to reset via meditation. Start by removing one aisle at a time from your routine and soon you'll feel your taste buds catching up to your desire for healthy organic and fresh natural food and drinks.
-```
 
-***
+---
 
 ## Herbal teas as daily medicine
 
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 - [ ] Try a new herbal tea
 
-***
+---
 
 ## Fasting as reset
 
-Fasting doesn't need to be extreme to be effective. Start with one day a week of liquids only — fresh juices, soups, herbal teas. From there, try a 24-hour water fast. With guidance, you can work toward a 3-day water fast, which triggers deeper cellular repair processes (autophagy).[1](#user-content-fn-1)
+Fasting doesn't need to be extreme to be effective. Start with one day a week of liquids only — fresh juices, soups, herbal teas. From there, try a 24-hour water fast. With guidance, you can work toward a 3-day water fast, which triggers deeper cellular repair processes (autophagy).[^1]
 
 It's about giving the digestive system the rest it rarely receives in a culture of constant consumption.
 
 - [ ] Try eating or drinking only fruits (smoothies allowed with coconut water) for 24 hours
 
-***
+---
 
 ## What touches your skin
 
 Gradually replace clothing and bed linen with natural, non-toxic materials: organic cotton, linen, hemp, wool. The skin is the largest organ — what it rests against for 8 hours a night matters.
 
-The same applies to what you put *on* your body. A self oil massage (*abhyanga*) with a simple, chemical-free oil suited to your constitution — or just pure coconut oil — is a daily practice that nourishes skin, calms the nervous system, and reconnects you to your own body with care rather than criticism.
+The same applies to what you put _on_ your body. A self oil massage (_abhyanga_) with a simple, chemical-free oil suited to your constitution — or just pure coconut oil — is a daily practice that nourishes skin, calms the nervous system, and reconnects you to your own body with care rather than criticism.
 
-- [ ] Replace one item of synthetic clothing with a fully natural alternative
+- [ ] Replace one item of synthetic clothing with a fully natural alternative 
 
 ??? info "Hint"
+    Start with underwear. A 1993 study found that polimmediately yester underwear caused significant (mostly reversible) damage to sperm production in dogs, while cotton had no effect — the cause was electrostatic charge or some other effect from wearing synthetic fabrics.[^2]
 
-Start with underwear. A 1993 study found that polyester underwear caused significant (mostly reversible) damage to sperm production in dogs, while cotton had no effect — the cause was electrostatic charge or some other effect from wearing synthetic fabrics.[2](#user-content-fn-2)
+---
-
-***
 
 ## Small detox steps
 
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 None of this needs to happen overnight. One change, held consistently, reshapes a life.
 
-***
+---
 
 **Related:** [Grounding in Nature](grounding-in-nature.md) — where nourishment meets the earth.
 
-*What's one thing your body has been quietly asking you to change?*
+_What's one thing your body has been quietly asking you to change?_
 
 - [ ] Mark this sprout read
 
-## Footnotes
+[^1]: Autophagy — the body's cellular cleanup and recycling process — was the subject of Yoshinori Ohsumi's 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Fasting is one of the most reliable ways to trigger it. [nobelprize.org](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2016/ohsumi/facts/)
+
+[^2]: Shafik A. "Effect of different types of textile fabric on spermatogenesis: an experimental study." *Urological Research*, 1993. [PMID: 8279095](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8279095/) — Note: this was an animal study (dogs).
 
-1. Autophagy — the body's cellular cleanup and recycling process — was the subject of Yoshinori Ohsumi's 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Fasting is one of the most reliable ways to trigger it. [nobelprize.org](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2016/ohsumi/facts/) [↩](#user-content-fnref-1)
-2. Shafik A. "Effect of different types of textile fabric on spermatogenesis: an experimental study." *Urological Research*, 1993. [PMID: 8279095](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8279095/) — Note: this was an animal study (dogs). [↩](#user-content-fnref-2)