Self-care is the True Healthcare

Let’s face it: We have been taught not to love ourselves. We have been taught to produce for the economic machine and to give to others, rather than to receive and reflect. We push off the important, for what appears to be the urgent. When our intuition tells us to tend to our hearts, we feel shame and guilt for putting ourselves first. No wonder self-care is not a priority, for we have lost sight of our eternal, divine being-ness. We let others choose for us.

This life-force, infinite creator, higher Self, or whatever you call it, is essentially LOVE.

Love is medicine.

Love is what expands existence and potential. The more we expand, the more we realize that we have so many options, and that we are not meant to live within the confines to shame and unworthiness. Within this new space, our energy has the opportunity to find balance. Balance is health. No institution can tell us how to find our own unique balance. 

During this time of global pandemic, self-care is a partially interesting topic. Some are faced with the increased stress of working the front lines, while others are at home with more time on their hands than desired. In all cases, we must ask: how do I maintain my wellbeing? Have I lost sight of my own life? My hope is that we are realizing that our health is our greatest wealth.

Planet Earth is the ultimate example of self-care. She knows how to heal herself. She keeps doing so, even as humans work against her. She calls upon her resources without hesitation, and keeps astonishing us with her resilience. As earthlings, we can be like her because we are part of her. 

So, I encourage you to take back the reigns on social programming, fate, and genetics. What can you do to make yourself feel more balanced? For five minutes? For a few hours? For the long haul? It doesn’t have to be monumental or glamorous, but a tool, and eventually a habit, that brings you back to yourself.  

It is amazing what just 5, 10, or 20 minutes can do.  It doesn’t have to be serious, it can be silly. It can be mundane. It can be radical. Learn to love and enjoy yourself, even in the smallest ways. 

Let yourself be surprised!

The Spiritual Crisis of Separation

The crisis that you will not hear on the news is that people are feeling worthless because they are not producing. The global pandemic has people out of work and many out of income. Through the ages we have become a society that tricks us into believing that we are valuable if we can produce “stuff” and consume “stuff.” We must participate in the economy to be a respectable human. Is that why we are here? To produce and consume?

We have separated about as far as we can from our humanity. We have forgotten that “worthiness” shouldn’t even be something to consider, because we just are. We have been convinced to put aside our greater calling and our joy to feed someone else’s bottomless appetite for power. The shame of not fitting in this box keeps us even further from our personal power. So how do we disentangle this mess, especially when our mental patterns work to serve others’ narcissism?

We start small. We recognize our power to choose and choose again in our daily lives. Now I choose joy. Now I choose peace. Now I appreciate the glories of spring. Now I choose to do five minutes of yoga. Now I choose to smile at someone beneath my face mask and hope they see it in my eyes. This light of yours will likely dim and brighten, but with commitment it will grow and grow. Others will feel it. Then they will begin to feel their own. Your light will be the healing virus.

We have reached the peak of individuality and separation. We as crested waves must crash back into the ocean to togetherness. Millenia of separating from togetherness, to tribes, to clans, to families, to selves, we must integrate our unique discoveries to serve each other. This is where we have the choice to learn our lesson to help our people and help our planet. Otherwise we try to go back to business as normal, where we continue to neglect our live-giving resources and face more and more viruses. How will we use our freewill? How you use your light is where you power resides.