As part of nature, we interact with our environment even if we find ourselves disconnected from it.
Natural healing is a story of reconnection to Self and the Earth. It understands that nature lives in patterns and layers, ecosystems and orchestras, that inform and reflect each other to maintain balance and harmony as one. We only need to discover the pattern seen at all levels to heal.
On the physical level, our cell membrane is a permeable layer that interacts with other cells in its environment, choosing which ions to allow into the cell and which to repel. Likewise, our digestive tract is a permeable barrier that separates the food that nourishes our body from the blood that nourishes our cells. The skin also provides a permeable barrier between external and internal environments.
On a mental level, our perceptions are a the permeable barrier for our beliefs and thoughts. When we make choices based on our perceptions, we choose a path toward health or a path toward disease.
Orchestrating all layers and levels is the Higher Self, acting as conductor and offering up opportunities for growth at the spiritual level. Emotions are the wild card, if we still have access to them. They can lead us toward balance or they can run away with us, and get the best of us.
The interactions between our cells, our body, and our choices reflect the bigger picture of our personal relationships. Our personal relationships reflect exchanges between groups, communities, and the structures of government, education, medicine, economies, religion, and politics. All of these pictures mirror the picture of health for the planet.
And it doesn’t look pretty.
What appears to be the planet falling apart at the seams — earth quaking, oil spewing, document leaking, market manipulating, priest abusing, liberty crushing, rabble rousing, air polluting, industry-controlling, disease exploding — is really the proverbial mirror of our patterning of personal relationships.
The repeating destructive patterns in dysfunctional relationships never changes when we incorrectly attempt to fix the battle scars we see on the outside without dressing the wounds of the soft, chewy center. We are afraid to see that our discontent and disconnection with partners politicians, priests, and presidents starts with each of us.
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In order to find balance, to be the activist environmentalist that heals the planet, we must first activate and balance our inner terrain. Because all relationships are spiritual in nature, we have to start with our own male and female energies, and claim our own piece of the energetic pie.
The union of our inner male and female energies is the essential ingredient that heals the tears in our seams and maintains our barriers. Self-forgiveness breeds forgiveness of others. Self-love breeds love for others. We cannot serve from an empty vessel. When we change the pattern and sew ourselves up, we sew up our relationships and the planet, as well. The microcosm is the macrocosm. Our nature is Nature. Relationships that do not evolve and grow will fall apart. Such is nature.
Not surprisingly, reconnection and healing happens through the heart center. How to activate the heart chakra is another story. Stay tuned for Part 2.
