Why ‘No Chill’ Is the True Path to Zen for High-Capacity Minds

How to Embrace the Unexpected Path to Zen and Authentic Peace as a Neurocomplex Body-Mind

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The Calm We Can’t Fake

There is a beautiful paradox at the heart of our culture’s obsession with calm. The very energy we are told to suppress — our restless, intense, existential no chill — might actually be the clearest sign of our vitality and creative edge.

For some of us, trying to be chill feels less like self-care and more like slow spiritual suffocation.

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I Work With People Who Aren’t Chill. I’m Not Either.