AlphaGazette #10: Sit Back, Relax, Listen to Your Heartbeat | SC10 – Zen World Alliance
AlphaGazette News of the Worlds - Sit Back, Relax, Listen to Your Heartbeat
Mike the Creator
Sit Back, Relax, Listen to Your Heartbeat
Are you constantly busy and overscheduled, running from one appointment to the next, never feeling caught up, and dealing with it all by over-caffeinating and under-sleeping? Then you are probably also romanticizing another life filled with the peace and splendor you so desperately want, but never know how to achieve, and even if you did, you wouldn't slow down long enough to enjoy. You have forgotten how to do nothing for five minutes without becoming agitated about what you're not doing, and who has time to relax anyway?
Hey, I’m not here to judge, believe me. For that matter, neither am I here to help, just to suggest that if you do have control over your personal chaos, and can afford to remove yourself from it entirely for an extended period, then you should do it alone, and as far away as you can get, without making it either too challenging or too languid. The idea is to minimize stress, not add to it. Think hard about what will work for you. It might be an island, it might be a mountain, or it might even be a room thirty floors up in a major city.
Zen Worlds is a tropical resort magnified to the size of the planet, then replicated in multi-hued variations of atmosphere, climate, and culture across multiple instances. Because so many people go and never want to leave, temporary visas are strictly controlled. All is love and sunshine until you overstay your welcome along the Trail of Small Eternities.
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There are twenty-seven recognized instances along the Trail, each one clearly designated and requiring full body and brain scans upon entry. There is no starting point per se, as the trail is a loop and can be entered anywhere.
"This is one of those places that you really can't even understand until you come here, and it takes many years to fully explore even a handful of these "heavenly tidelands" where time moves slower than backwards until you end up where you began. It's easy to make fun of because most people have never experienced true tranquility." --Ozziya Ozzburn, MMA Fighter
You don't come here to "take a vacation", rather, you step into a stasis machine which blocks all external concerns from your consciousness until you step out again and rejoin your living reality. People often report feeling and looking years younger after emerging, and research has documented regular visitors achieving remarkable lifespans.