Creating the Conditions

After many years in the healing arts, I've come to believe that true, lasting healing is less about "doing" and more akin to "allowing." The body, mind and spirit are all deeply interwoven + interconnected - the healing of one part of us heals the whole of us.

In our Western framework, healing is active, prescriptive “work" we do... We too often leave out the more feminine aspects of healing: allowing, inviting, listening... creating the conditions for our innate healing to unfold in a natural, unforced, integrated way.

So much healing happens in silence - by immersing ourselves in nature, deeply resting to access our dream states , unwinding in the unspoken energetic exchange between bodyworker & client, creating time for spacious solitude in our days, soaking in hot baths with only the sound of your breath, patient kindling… and time.

For decades we've all been trying so hard to adapt to an artificially constructed world --- For the majority of us, our illnesses have less to do with faulty brain chemistry and everything to do with humanity, authenticity, creativity + love having slipped from & smothered by our dominant culture.

To restore the health of our bodies + minds means Creating New Conditions to live within... For many of us, that will mean working very differently, parenting very differently, and simplifying our lives. Growing our own food + medicines and honoring emotional learning + self-regulation as an inherent part of human intelligence. Cultivating appreciation for what we have rather than always, endlessly needing more.

We cannot return to what was, nor will we suddenly wake up perfectly borne into what will be - for the rest of our lifetimes our collective calling will be cultivating the conditions for the future alongside a dying past.

Many are feeling the collective pressure of humanity's crossroads and this is manifesting in chronic autoimmune conditions, anxiety, rage, regression, depression, mystery illnesses and debilitating fatigue. We can blame & resent the dead tree fallen in the forest, remain obstinate or paralyzed in the discomfort of change... or we can instead actively invest our attention in nurturing the green baby shoots quietly springing up alongside that decomposing log.

We may not be able to see the future yet - to put it into words or paint it into vision - but it is already on the way. For today, we can begin cultivating new conditions from within, where it begins.