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Gwyneth Paltrow is one of the famous stars who maintains a strict health regime, but when she was young the situation was completely different.
"In my early 20s, I didn't really have a morning routine," the 51-year-old Goop founder said in a webinar about her partnership with Moments of Space, a meditation app, according to Business Insider.
At the time, the Oscar-winning actress was too busy appearing in movies, partying at ceremonies and dating Hollywood stars like Brad Pitt.
"Either I went out with friends and slept late or I got up really early to go to the set," she added.
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Now, Paltrow's morning routine "includes a little bit of meditation and a little bit of exercise."
Specifically, she practices open-eyed meditation while focusing on her surroundings and connection to herself during daily activities — and says it helps her "stay present" and "feel more whole."
"I relied on meditation to connect with my highest self, to not dismiss things outright, to try to keep my ego out of it," she said, according to the Independent.
"Especially when we feel that something is unfair, or unjust, or someone doesn't keep his word, or something like that."
She also envisions a higher purpose for the practice.
"I believe that open-eyed meditation may be important for changing the world and deepening the way we connect with ourselves and others," she told The Independent.
"This meditative state, this unity, I feel it so much and I think that we connect to this unity only fundamentally heals the division. Because you feel the connection of every human being, it brings empathy to the forefront."
This isn't the first time Paltrow has been linked to unconventional health rituals.
Paltrow, who is constantly surrounded by a battery of doctors, nutritionists, personal trainers, beauticians and what not, is known in Hollywood as someone who adheres to an extreme care and diet routine.
It was recently revealed that the monthly price tag of her beauty routine alone is about NIS 65,000.
Her return includes bee venom, apple stem cells, hot steam treatment for the feet and sex powder (whatever that is).
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"Not looking to live to the age of 165"
But in "designing her longevity plan," she also relies on "checkups" to ensure her health, although some experts are skeptical of how necessary such rigorous routine checks are.
"There are all these amazing screening protocols to scan for tumor markers in the blood, all kinds of advanced imaging and things like that," she said.
"And because both of my parents had experiences with cancer, I'm probably a little more proactive than the average person."
Indeed, Paltrow is only three years younger than the age when her father, Bruce Paltrow, was diagnosed with throat cancer.
The director-producer, then 54, died in 2002 of complications from the disease, and her mother, 81-year-old actress Blythe Danner, was later diagnosed with the same cancer.
In a way, her father's diagnosis was a sobering wake-up call from her roaring 20s, the catalyst for her exploration into "the whole world of health and mindfulness," she said.
"My longevity practice will really evolve as I learn more. And I think I just want to stay really open to evolving modalities and science around what that's going to look like in the next 10 years or so," she said.
"I don't want to live forever either. I'm not one of those people," she admitted.
"I want a good, long and healthy life, but I'm not looking to live to the age of 165 or something like that."
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