A powerful question for these uncertain times. How would you answer it?
I’ve been hearing a lot about medicine.
For allergies, spring colds, headaches, and body aches. The pharmaceutical kind of medicine that is in most medicine cabinets and advertised relentlessly through every media channel. Chemotherapy, radiation, anti-anxiety and depression medications.
And natural supplements like Vitamins C and D, zinc, Airborne, and essential oils. Boosting immune systems and treating symptoms naturally in a time of global illness. I’m listening to people speak about medication most days. It’s a part of life.
Energy medicine also sprinkles through all my conversations.
That isn’t so surprising since I’m using Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology techniques in most interactions with people. Heart Assisted Therapy. Emotional Freedom Technique. The Body Code. The Emotion Code. All the Light work with the Angels and beyond. Giving you access to your own natural power.
Awakening your inner healer. So you can treat yourself.
Easy to learn. Practical in application. Yet, often forgotten or underutilized. Even though I offer sessions every week, I often forget to use these techniques myself. Such is human nature and the power of the conditioned mind. Good to remember and drop back into creating the new habit of using these techniques more frequently.
I’ve been hearing a lot about self-medicating these days.
Emotional eating. Stress eating. Drinking too much. Laying around binging Netflix series you don’t even like. Overworking. Letting go normal activities like exercise, chores, or showering. Too much caretaking at the expense of your own wellness. These are all understandable activities during a pandemic while self-quarantined.
There’s no judgment here.
I’m just noticing that I’m eating ice cream again and not working out with weights. That’s fine here and there, yet ultimately not the best medicine to keep my body vital and strong. Taking a look at yourself without judgment, you may notice the ways you are attempting to soothe your stress, loneliness, boredom, fear, and loss. Awareness precedes choice precedes change.
Compassionate awareness leads to a potential to chose a different medicine.
There’s some yummy, feel good medicine going on here. Generously helping others. Planting gardens. Walking in nature. Creating art. Reading books. Connecting via phone, email, video, and drive by visits. Playing games. Praying for those near and far. Learning something new. Sending Thank You notes. Singing together. Dancing.
Within the indigenous traditions, a shaman or medicine healer may evaluate your dis-ease with four powerful questions.
Diagnostic in nature. Insightful in contemplation. Prescriptive in action.
I believe these questions speak for themselves. Make use of them with one caveat. Good medicine requires a compassionate view toward yourself and your life. No judgment here. That won’t help you discover the healing which is awaiting you. Some of you may dive within these questions – grateful for the structure and capacity to explore every crevice. Others may find it more helpful to touch the edge of a question. To notice what wants to be gently explored or practiced.
There’s a hint in every question. An answer. A map marker. To guide your way home to yourself.
I love the potential of diving deep. Grateful also for the benefit of walking gently into these questions. I’m a fan of “not knowing” what may arise. And for taking the shortest route to discovery. So, I’m taking the “hint” to awaken some good medicine to see me through.
I’m sitting in silence. Dancing a lot to different kinds of music. Singing softly and loudly. Alone and with others (albeit via recording). Enjoying stories.
Seems we are in this topsy turvy world for the long haul. Together. Every day you may notice yet another thing that is gone, different, or unknown. You are in the midst the great upheaval. We all are.
Knowing that you are responsible for your own wellbeing, this seems like a good time to become more aware. Asking yourself what is helping you steady your light, boost your immune system, strengthen your mind-body-energy system, awaken your soul connection, and empower your own evolution.
The Art of Becoming. Evolving into a luminous human during this time of great uncertainty.
I’m curious. Enchanted by Life’s invitation to evolve. Aware that I’m at choice. Interested in becoming more while doing less. So, I’ll be diving into some beautiful questions and open space. By myself as an investment in my wellbeing and creative ability to serve others.
Choose your medicine wisely.
Are you noticing who is prescribing your medicine? Is it the media, western medicine, subconscious habits, or your live streaming inner wisdom? There’s a hint of an answer in that question as well. Remember that everything is waiting for you as you dance, sing, pray, create, and engage stories. A cornucopia of natural healing awaits as you commune with nature, stillness, and your own Soul.
Peace be with you and with all. No exceptions.
When you smile, they smile. At least their brains fire off the neurons as if they were smiling. A smile comes your way. Your brain fires off neurons ‘as if’ you were smiling. Mirror neurons are thought to be the physiological foundation for empathy. Helping you read people and interpret how they may be feeling. One thing about trauma, shock, chronic helplessness, or depression. It robs you of your natural smile. With the presence of mirror neurons, another person’s smile can activate your neural pathways even when your face doesn’t match up. Smile more. At yourself. At everyone. The world needs your smile.
Learn the one essential skill that allows you to face any challenge with confidence, sturdiness, and inner calm.
More than a technique. It’s a game changer.
In September, I’m returning to the Temples of Humankind in Damanhur, Italy. It feels like an understatement to claim that this is a place of power, mystery, and majesty. Yet, I’ve found this to be true for myself and those I’ve met who’ve traveled within the extraordinary to the Temples and the community of Damanhur.
One cool Spring morning, I stepped on the treadmill at the gym looking forward to walking a few miles. Recovering from an injury, I had to walk at a moderate pace so I had brought my copy of What Is Enlightenment? magazine to explore. I always found something to inspire me within this publication focused upon consciousness, culture, and cosmos.
Stress is a natural experience in life. It’s often viewed as a doorway to disruption of wellbeing, peace of mind, and a clear navigational path in a challenging situation.
I’m a bit of a news hound these days. As one who hasn’t watched a newscast in years, I’m surprising myself. Ordinarily, I wait for the news to come to me. And it does. When something is important for me to know or respond to, I hear about it. Kind friends, clients, my husband, or a random stranger share a soundbite which cues me to look into a situation further. I’ve been very comfortable with this level of engagement for years now.
In the midst of our country’s woes, I’ve got Lucinda Williams singing in my head.
“You can’t rule me
you wanna go and tell me what’s good for me
you wanna tell me what I’m payin’ for
Well, the game is fixed, it’s plain to see
I ain’t playin’ no more”
I drove through a hail storm today. It began gently, offering a musical accompaniment to my journey. Intensifying, the hail noisily demanded my attention.
