Vitality Is the Point

by Merry Poppins PWR

I sat at a long Thanksgiving dinner table.
Mostly octogenarians.
People I adore. People with lived brilliance. People whose bodies have carried decades of stories.

And yet…

I could see it — the slow shrinking of life around them.
Not from lack of desire.
Not from lack of character.
Simply from lack of vitality.

Not energy drinks.
Not grit.
Not “I’m fine.”

Vitality.

That deep, humming aliveness that makes getting up, moving, breathing, connecting — all of it — feel possible again.

Thanksgiving didn’t depress me.
It clarified me.

I saw the gap.

The Gap No One Likes to Talk About

We lose vitality long before we lose mobility.

Vitality fades quietly:

• when joints stiffen and we call it “normal”

• when breathing becomes shallow and we say it’s “age”

• when fascia locks down and we can’t turn without effort

• when getting up from a chair becomes a negotiation

No one announces this part.
It doesn’t hit all at once.
It arrives in fractions.

But fractions compound.

That’s the gap:
The space between simply living and actually living well.

Everything I Do Points Here

Every tool I use…every ritual I teach…every protocol I create…they all orbit one truth:

Life feels better when your body can participate in it.

B3 Bands, vibration plate, AO Scan, Inner Voice, frequency tech, sauna, red light, fascia release, Super Patch, BrainIQ…all the different modalities and supplements.

None of it is random.
None of it is about trends.

It’s about keeping the body capable of joy.

It’s about:

• waking tissues that have gone dormant

• restoring circulation that has slowed

• releasing fascia that has trapped old stories

• balancing a nervous system that has forgotten safety

• putting oxygen and movement back into the places that keep you alive

Vitality is not a luxury.
It is the infrastructure of a meaningful life.

Restoration Isn’t the Goal. Vitality Is.

I don’t chase “recovery.”
Recovery is reactive.

I chase vitality — proactive, generous, self-renewing vitality.

The kind where:

• you move without bracing

• you rise without hesitation

• you turn without fear of pain

• you breathe without restriction

• you live without shrinking

This is what I witnessed at Thanksgiving:
The body trying.
The willpower working harder than it should.
The gap widening because no one taught them how to close it.

A Different Measure of Wealth

Wealth isn’t just assets.
Wealth is:

• How deeply you can inhale.

• How easily you can bend.

• How confidently you can stand.

• How often you feel good in your own skin.

• How much life force you can access, daily.

What if that is the metric?

Because the truth is simple:

The point is not to survive the years.
The point is to have the vitality to live them.

Published by Merry Poppins PWR
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