The correction of imbalances
The correction of imbalances
Mohaandas Gandhi drove the British Empire from India without giving a shot. He observed early on that imperies always fall, no matter how strong they are. Power and wealth that are controlled by too few people are as unnatural as a pyramid that is on the head.
The nature of healing is the correction of imbalances.
If you tip, you can fall, but at least it is more stable to lie on the floor. We are constantly balancing our health through guards and sleeping, eating and contractions, hard effort and relaxation, our needs and the needs of others.
like India vs. England, we are also affected by larger balancing files. Nature plays this game like a dance. Gravity and electromagnetism keep us safe on our small blue earth, while the Milky Way holds around a bright center. Storms arise when atmospheric water, pressure and temperature balance. Likewise, moody, depression and all types of emotional stress are storms that try to correct something in our personality. All of this happens wonderfully, whether they pay attention to it or not.
After the college, I lived and worked for a while on a 4,000 hectare ranch in the Colorado Rockies. Everywhere there was an open grassland and forests from spruce, Espen, Doug fir and ponderosa. There was one exception: the "Columbus tree". This gnarled, distorted memory of a tree was an ancient juniper, the only one of its kind in the area. A prominent local claimed to have taken a core test and estimated that she was older than Columbus' arrival in America. At that time the region was covered with similar trees. Of course, this balance had changed over time.
What happens if the change is?
Take a look at this interactive card in the New York Times. Everywhere in the United States, farmers in particular wake up to see brand new, herbicide -resistant plants in their fields. One of the main players, called the pig herb, grows so quickly, large and robust that it growls massive cotton bundle. The fear is growing that the agricultural system we depend on will be plunged into chaos. How did we grown food before petrochemistry? Is round-up the best that our agricultural intellect has developed in the past 100 years? Surprisingly, the associated article never mentions organic, permacultural, biodynamic or other sustainable cultivation methods. You could wonder if you can learn something from it.
When Spanish conquistadors came to the American west for the first time, it was not the mugwort land that it is today. The sage plant has grown steadily in the past hundred years through increasing grazing, land use and its own toughness. It is a medicinal plant for Indians and New Age Spiritualists. It is believed that sage grows up in areas where the country is restless. From this point of view, sage is a sign of healing that the country we know and love today is shaped and become.
I don't worry about foxtail, just about humans. Fortunately, I have found an example in which the people involved - no less invested in the result than the farmers - have changed their course and something almost wonderful happened. In the United States, we prescribe too many antibiotics in infections, especially for frequently occurring earache, which are known as acute otitis media (AOM). As a result, almost half of these cases are today pneumoniae or streptococci. I am sure you heard from Strep because you probably had it yourself. Over there in the Netherlands, only 1 % of the AOM accounts for medication -resistant streptococci. Why the big difference? Where have all the drug -resistant streptococci gone? The answer reads like a page from the script by Gandhi: When we stopped fighting, our enemy died by itself. If you see when Dutch children from two years of age appear with middle ear inflammation, your doctors give you four days to improve yourself. On the whole, the children heal. It turns out that all of these pharmaceuticals -resistant trunks are weak. You have literally balanced. Penicillin also works again. Today, only 31 % of all children in the Netherlands receive antibiotics for AOM. In the United States it is over 95 % and we use keflex. Out of
OK, I am ready to get on my feet and share some questions I've been asking for years. In view of all the above stories, what are "invasive species"? Do you just pass faster than we are used to? Why do we fight against them? What do we not like about the change in which we share? What if man was natural? Then what is the mass extinction that we live through? What if a massive die of species on earth, crossed with a true human flower, life on Earth simply becomes more intelligent? Are things just getting more and more complex? Is that a kind of miracle? What do we want to learn from it?
This is my message to you for 2011: live from your heart. Radical. Do not wait for the economy or politics to catch up. There is an organizational principle of higher order in the universe, which you can feel in your sense of amazement and in your connection to the people, places and things you love. Check every choice based on your opinion. Find out what you really think and feel. Listen to your intuition and the signals in your stomach. It is time to become wiser and wiser about your life.
The truth is that our world is too complicated to understand it only with our head. There is only one way to get in line with ourselves and everything around us: to be present, just here, exactly now, and with maximum mindfulness to react to our own innermost leadership. Do you think you are unnatural? Rate again.
The constant change of people, species, ecosystems, money, cultures - all our complex relationships between family, friends, nations and the earth itself - could take a long time to balance yourself to a beautiful, stable civilization. But all in all - and I mean all things - the future looks for you, me, all and everything on earth upwards. We are already on the go. You are doing it right now. It's inevitable.
I give him, oh, let's say, 5,000 years.