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saying “be safe” like a spell that’ll protect them

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Red's Safe Haven

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Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3

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I wish I had more energy…

I still have so much homework left to do with less than two weeks left of the semester. I feel so burnt out and just want to do witchy stuff instead. 😞

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Happy Pride! 🌟

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Little visitor

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Processing flowers for drying and sachets 💜

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We are now at 6 assignments and three weeks left.

Things are looking/feeling grim but gonna try my best! 🫠

oh, my brain got overworked and shut down until I have only 6 weeks to finish nine assignments between two courses? Sure why not.

And I am not allowed an extension without losing my funding? Even though it was never a problem before, because of new policy changes.

I guess the brain goop will have to continue… 😕

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Listening to lofi versions of songs by Hozier and replenishing my spell jar ingredients- because today was enough to make me want to escape reality and go live in the woods, and this is as close to that feeling as I am presently going to get.

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Taking brain break to refresh my little blessing bowls for my altar; my lapis lazuli rabbit needed some extra love.

Fresh bowl with Cinnamon bark, Rosemary, Cedar, Lemongrass, Lavender, Rose petals, Salt, and Cloves. Also added bleeding heart and phlox flowers.

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Late night studying sessions and mindfulness time.

Feat. the most beautiful candle holder I have ever been gifted.

Hoping to finish one of my assignments and do a tarot reading before calling it a night.

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Admirable bolete

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scribbellz

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🧘‍♀️ 1. Meditation Changes Your Brain

Spiritual belief: Meditation connects you to higher consciousness, inner peace, and intuition.

Scientific backing: Long-term meditation literally rewires the brain:

• Increases gray matter density in the hippocampus (memory, learning)

• Shrinks the amygdala (fear center)

• Strengthens the prefrontal cortex (emotional regulation + decision making)

👉 Study: Harvard neuroscientist Sara Lazar found measurable brain changes after just 8 weeks of mindfulness.

🌿 2. Nature Heals You—Energetically and Biologically

Spiritual belief: Nature grounds and balances your energy field.

Scientific backing:

• Forest bathing (Shinrin-yoku) lowers cortisol and boosts natural killer cell activity (immune system)

• Touching soil or walking barefoot (“earthing”) can reduce inflammation and balance circadian rhythms

👉 Study: PubMed research confirms that grounding decreases white blood cell count spikes from stress.

🌀 3. Your Heart Has a Magnetic Field—and It Affects Others

Spiritual belief: Your heart emits energy others can feel.

Scientific backing: The HeartMath Institute showed that:

• The heart’s electromagnetic field extends up to 3 feet outside the body

• Emotional states can be detected in this field by others

• Coherence (a calm heart rhythm) can help regulate those nearby

👉 This aligns with how empaths and intuitives often describe “feeling other people’s energy.”

🔮 4. Intuition Is a Real Brain Process

Spiritual belief: Intuition is a knowing beyond logic—your “inner voice.”

Scientific backing: Studies show that:

• The anterior cingulate cortex lights up seconds before conscious decisions

• People often make accurate “gut” decisions without logical reasoning

👉 This explains how you can feel something’s off or right before you know why.

🔥 5. Trauma Can Be Stored in the Body—and Released Energetically

Spiritual belief: Emotional pain gets stuck in the body’s energy system (chakras, meridians).

Scientific backing: Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s work in The Body Keeps the Score shows:

• Trauma is stored in the nervous system and fascia

• Somatic therapies (like yoga, breathwork, EMDR) can physically release emotional blocks

👉 Spiritual healing rituals often mimic these body-based releases.

🕯 6. Rituals Work—Even If You Don’t Believe In Them

Spiritual belief: Ritual creates sacred space and sets intention.

Scientific backing: Neurological studies show that rituals:

• Reduce anxiety by creating structure

• Increase confidence and focus through patterned behavior

• Affect the brain’s reward and threat centers—even when labeled as “placebo”

👉 This is why lighting a candle or cleansing a room feels like it works—it actually calms the brain and resets your state.

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Brb drinking water so my brain stops catastrophizing. 🫠