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“I was raised on water and rivers in particular, and I've come to believe in them. It's hard to put into words, but Christians have Jesus Christ and maybe I do too, but for me He's those swirling pools of emerald green light there, all linked together on a trip to everlasting life. Water is my ancestral home. It's what keeps me warm and calm and centered. When I get conflicted or upset I go back to it and it finds a way to center my heart and tell me everything will be okay. I can't take my eyes off of it and I don't want to leave its side.”

“One study found interesting gender differences regarding how pain and synchrony affect social bonding. For women, greater social bonding was reported for painful ritual without synchronized movements. For men, however, synchrony and pain created a greater sense of social bonding. One possible reason for this is that males, more than females, over our evolutionary history were responsible for coordinated violent action against perceived threats, which may have selected them for greater sensitivity to synchrony as a bonding mechanism.”