[NOTICE] #gugudan# #HANA# 's tvN <Touch Your Heart> OST #Falling_Down# has been released❣ Through HANA's voice Here comes a calm and sorrowful song🎶 Dear Friends, let's listen together💕 🎧 #Touch_Your_Heart# #OST#

Watching fans from all over the world celebrate this music has meant so much to me, to see the words of the song touch your heart and the video provoke this huge wave of dancing and fun is beautiful to watch and I’m so grateful. Thank you thank you thank you for loving our song i love you for real and i hope the message of love we shared will continue to create special moments for you all in your lives—I know it does in mine every day. The power of music is big and your love of this song reminded me of that.

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Take a minute to appreciate the great poem If by Kipling. Which line resonates most with you? If you can keep your head when all about you     Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,     But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,     Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating,     And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;     If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster     And treat those two impostors just the same: If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken     Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,     And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings     And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings     ⁠And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew     To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you     ⁠Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,     Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,     If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute     With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,     ⁠And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son![

A psychologist at the University of North Carolina spent 20 years proving that a single 20-second hug rewires the human cardiovascular system, and the experiment she ran is so simple you can replicate it tonight at home. Her name is Karen Grewen. She works inside the UNC School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry. The paper that made her famous was published in 2003, and almost nobody outside her field has read it. Here is what she actually did. She recruited 183 healthy adults living with a long-term partner. She split them into two groups. The warm contact group sat together for 10 minutes holding hands while watching a romantic video. Then they stood up and hugged each other for exactly 20 seconds. The control group sat alone in a separate room for the same amount of time doing nothing. Then she made every single one of them give a public speech in front of a panel. Public speaking is one of the cleanest stressors in psychology. Heart rate spikes. Blood pressure climbs. Cortisol floods the system within minutes. It is the laboratory version of every stressful moment you have ever had at work. The people who had been hugged for 20 seconds before walking into that room had measurably lower blood pressure responses to the stress. Lower systolic. Lower diastolic. Lower heart rate increases. Everything was the same.. the speech, the panel, and fear. But this time completely different physiological response. The hug had not made the stress disappear. It had changed how the body was allowed to respond to it. Two years later Grewen ran the follow-up study that explained why. She drew blood from 38 couples before and after the same warm contact protocol and measured what was actually changing inside them. The answer was a hormone called oxytocin. Oxytocin is the chemical your body releases during childbirth, breastfeeding, and orgasm. It is the same molecule that makes a mother feel calm holding her newborn. Grewen's data showed that 20 seconds of physical contact with a trusted partner triggered a measurable spike in plasma oxytocin in both men and women, and the size of that spike directly predicted how much their blood pressure dropped. The mechanism turned out to be older than recorded history. Oxytocin binds to receptors in your heart, your blood vessels, and the part of your brainstem that controls how aggressively your nervous system reacts to threat. When the hormone shows up, the entire fight-or-flight machine downshifts. Your blood vessels widen. Your heart slows. Your cortisol production gets suppressed. This is not a feeling. This is a chemical instruction your body sends to itself that you can measure with a blood pressure cuff. The detail Grewen kept emphasizing in her interviews was the duration. Three seconds is the average length of a hug between two humans. It is too short. The hormonal cascade does not have time to start. 20 seconds is the threshold where the oxytocin actually crosses into the bloodstream in a quantity large enough to do something measurable. A follow-up study tracked 59 premenopausal women over time and found that the ones who hugged their partners most frequently had lower resting blood pressure and higher baseline oxytocin levels than the ones who did not. The effect compounded. Daily hugs produced a permanent shift in the cardiovascular baseline. A separate review of long-term partner contact research found that married adults with frequent affectionate touch had significantly lower rates of heart disease and all-cause mortality than equally healthy adults without it. The American Heart Association now cites this body of research when explaining why social isolation is treated as a cardiovascular risk factor on the same level as smoking. The most haunting line in Grewen's research is one she said in an interview after publishing the second paper. She pointed out that the average American touches another human being less than they did 50 years ago. Phones replaced eye contact. Texts replaced visits. Hugs at the door got shorter. The thing that used to regulate our cardiovascular system multiple times a day quietly disappeared from most adult lives. Your body still expects it. The hormone receptors are still there waiting. The system was designed to be reset by physical contact with people who feel safe, and the reset takes 20 seconds. You can run the experiment yourself tonight. Hug someone you love for 20 full seconds. Count it out. The first 10 will feel awkward. Around 15 something shifts. By 20 the shoulders drop, the breathing slows, the chest opens. That is not in your head. That is your bloodstream changing.

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Some works really are those towering pieces of creation that automatically instil a feeling of respect for them, and after experiencing such works you are left feeling grateful for having been able to enjoy one of life's greatest mental and emotional nourishment. The Iliad, one of the oldest surviving texts, demands that respect, not because of its old age but for its timelessness. Yes, you are thrown into the middle of a 10 year long Greek-Trojan conflict, and it's natural to be intimidated before starting this journey because its reputation precedes it, but make use of technology and get the basic necessary context and choose the right translation (I wholeheartedly recommend Robert Fagles' one) and please just jump in and trust yourself and the beauty of the language to instantly grip you. Coming to the story itself, although I have read only a few books in my lifetime, this particular piece might be the grandest, the most brutal and yet one of the most complete works due to integrating a plethora of real human traits like aggression, fear, honour, pettiness, leadership, confusion, but most importantly trusting in Gods and their blessings but in yourself too and doing what's necessary even if Gods betray you. From detailed gory deaths to legendary men poking fun at each other, from slightly dragging heritage descriptions to relentless pacing of men and Gods taking the battle seriously, as a reader you just can't half-heartedly digest this grand feast, otherwise the loss is yours, the flavours were right there but you missed them. I have read every passage twice before heading to the next because the combined genius of Homer and Fagles would not allow you to just casually read, as every other line is enriched with beautiful imagery and delicious wording, and hence this is also my most underlined book till now. Achilles is more than everything that I heard about him, instantly one of my favourite literary figures. I was not prepared for Odysseus and how much he brings to the table. Giant Ajax and Diomedes are the backbone of the Greeks, and Patroclus cemented himself with his brief appearance. Hector is simply that man, he is everything that a man in his position must do if his fate is already sealed, and Aeneas got my special attention due to him reappearing in my future read, The Aeneid. The Gods, especially Zeus, provide a whole other layer of entertainment and their actions always intrigued me. I really can't properly conclude this piece that I started writing because I didn't even touch the most aura-inducing titles and epithets associated with men and Gods, some of the most memorable quotes, the breathtaking imagery of battlefields and Mount Olympus, the earnest description of physical attributes of characters and their armour and robes, or the way this poem fills you with all possible adrenaline and then at the next moment drains you completely, leaves you melancholic, and ultimately makes your day feel like an achievement having read it. Basically I haven't said anything meaningful because I'm really just incapable of adding anything to the legacy of this epic text. And now my Odyssey begins…

April Fool’s Day Pummel Statue Event!💥 Thanks to your enthusiastic support, the Pummel Statue Event has been extended! We’re also hosting a special community event where you can win Draw Tickets, so don’t miss out! Of the three types of “Tough Love,” which one do you think packs the best punch? Let us know in the comments! We look forward to your heartfelt participation. ♥ 📅 Event Period April 1, 2026 ~ April 8, 2026, until 11:50 PM (UTC) 📝 How to Participate ① Join the Statue Pummel event in Fantasia Square ② Give “Tough Love” to Jongho’s statue and Jun-hee’s statue 🎁 Rewards - If the total “Tough Love” count exceeds 30 million: 2 Draw Tickets (ALL) - If it exceeds 40 million: 2 more Draw Tickets (ALL) 🎉 Winner Announcement April 10, 2026 (Fri) ※ Rewards will be given according to the total “Tough Love” count at the end of the event. (For example, if it exceeds 40 million, you’ll receive 4 Draw Tickets.) Thank you!

All right, let's try something new. If you’re in the United States, send me a text at 773-365-9687 — I want to hear how you're doing, what's on your mind, and how you're planning on voting this year. I'll be in touch from time to time to share what's on my mind, too.