Gastric motility is the stomach’s coordinated muscle movement that processes food, mixing it and propelling it into the small intestine (duodenum) for digestion, involving relaxation to accept food, peristaltic waves to churn and break it down into chyme, and controlled emptying. This automatic process is controlled by the enteric nervous system (ENS) and influenced by nerves from the brain, hormones, and the microbiome, ensuring food moves from mouth to anus.
Objectivity, in this landscape, usually means not a “view from nowhere,” but “as independent of any one person’s quirks as we can practically make it.”
Listening to your body means paying attention to the signals your whole organism is sending, taking them seriously, and responding in a way that keeps you healthy and steady over time
Psychological “flow states” are much easier to enter and sustain when the underlying organismic flow is relatively harmonious and supported.
