Most of us have been taught to live horizontally.
A to B.Then B to C.Then maybe Z, if we’re lucky.
Graduate. Get a job. Get promoted. Buy things. Find a partner. Keep going. Try to rest. Try to heal. Try to arrive. But always keep pushing forward.
That’s the horizontal life. And it moves fast.But it’s also the life that makes most people sick—because it disconnects them from the truth of now.
The vertical life? That’s different.
The vertical life isn’t about forward motion.
It’s about depth.
It’s not about where you’re going.It’s about how fully you’re meeting what’s here.
To live vertically means you fly like an eagle.
It means you scan the terrain of your life from a higher perch and become aware of everything already available to you right now.
Not just in the 3D plane—what you can see and touch—but in the invisible field of YOU:
What you already do amazingly well
What you’re actually yearning for right now
What no longer resonates—even if it used to
And the most important question: How can I make this moment more like ME?
To live vertically is to choose. Not what society tells you to want. Not what the algorithms reward. Not what your past self said she’d stick with.
But what your body tells you brings joy.
And here’s the kicker—
This isn’t metaphor. This is biochemical.
When you’re doing something that isn’t right for you—whether it’s a job, a food, a habit, a conversation—you feel it in your cells:
Contraction
Resistance
Tension
Your body says: "Hey. This isn’t it." That contraction is not vague. It’s cortisol, adrenaline, neurotransmitter chaos. It’s your physiology preparing to fight something that should’ve never been in your field.
And if you stay there—forcing yourself through something you’ve already outgrown— You create a full-blown biochemical mess. Chronic cortisol surges. Blood sugar crashes. Adrenal fatigue. Digestive shutdown.
But if you pivot— If you say, “Okay, this is not for me… so what IS for me?”
You enter the vertical realm.
This is where it gets cellular.
That blooming flower feeling?
The shining sun in your chest?
That’s your nervous system opening.
That’s your cells bathing in a different cocktail: safety chemicals.
Oxytocin
Endorphins
GABA
Repair enzymes
That’s the hormonal state that turns on your healing genes. That’s the moment your body says: “I’m safe. I can restore. I can thrive.”
So if you want to uplevel your health effortlessly— Here’s the best place to start:
Engage with as many things as you possibly can that make you feel like the sun shining.
That’s it.
The more you live in that energy—the more you align with what actually feels like YOU—the faster your biology adapts.
You’ll still get to Z.But you’ll get there without frying your nervous system in the process.
Because you didn’t skip A. You inhabited it.
You lived it vertically.
And that changes your cells, your chemistry, your clarity— everything shifts when you stop rushing toward life and finally start living in it.