I am beginning a series of blogs about basic health and wellness. In doing so, it has been a wonderful journey of discovery, in keeping my own balance in perspective. One of my mentor's has suggested to write about that journey, and share it with a more intimate circle of peers and community, because it may open a broader door to connection, and understanding. This need to be understood, I suppose and extend that as an offering To Your Health.
True Health and Healing is always happening in the body but I suppose it is the emotional wounds that can often be the toughest to face. Emotional wounds that have been repressed can contribute to the conditional toxicity of fear's, repression, anxieties, or unhealthy conditions that need to be reconditioned and turned into medicine.
Some call this, turning the poisons of unhealthy habits, into the medicines of a Healthy life.
I believe one of the biggest keys to Health and Healing is the Imagination, and to do as much as we can in life to feed and nurture that part of ourselves. The imagination is so powerful, that science has really only begun to understand the role, especially in Medicine. The Art of Medicine, is considered something of a Taboo in America, but fostered and encouraged in the rest of the world. The same with Law, by the way, having passion in Law is considered dangerous, according to the code of Ethics that all Lawyers must adhere too. And then people wonder why, President Obama is so Stoic.
In my travels, I have encountered a lot of very Beautiful people; and a lot of people who have another kind of beauty that is buried beneath the layers of emotional wounds, some of which are not even conscious of. It's a funny thing, because sometimes, just a smile can actually save someone's life. A smile, and you would never even know. Isn't that amazing?
I am one that believes life to be Beautiful. I still believe in fairy tales, and bright, blingy illuminated, abundantly, infinite and magical things. I think life is a miracle and that just being here is a magical miraculous event in it of itself. I am an Artist. I was brought up to strive for the virtues that nurture and foster that unforseen Beauty, regardless of how ugly, people, places or situations can get. I am sympathetic to people who suffer from those deep emotional wounds; whose mental stability are under constant scrutiny and judgment. However, that does not mean that we must not be accountable for tending to this deep aspect of ourselves. There is suffering, and there is non suffering. You choose.
That is another discussion or perhaps a book, that would never end anyways.
So, sticking to the point of emotional health, it is important to surround yourself with people who have the same values that you do; who can reciprocate the same efforts that you strive for in life. When this does not happen in the Home; in the Family, which often is the core that shapes us and prepares us for the person we are to be in this life, then it is important to be mindful, that we emulate what we need. Whether we are aware or not, we grow up and begin to create the life, either that we know, or the one that we always wished for.
So if you are someone, who is in need of a more balanced life, one in quest for Health and Healing, just know that you are not alone, and that sometimes, it is just a phone call or a step away from where you are right now, to put you back on that journey to optimal Health. A journey that you are aware of or not, that you are on. You have been on since birth.
It is a funny thing, because the other day I was reading a book about Jewish life cycles, and the author referred to the different stages of life, as journeying through the sea of Forgetfulness; eventually the Angel comes and zaps your memory of anything from the former life, but sometimes even the Angel fails to do this completely, so you end up in this life with former memories that create more of mystical longing in your soul, or sometimes a deep grief. I thought that was interesting, because I can't tell you how many people I know, that always, try to forget the painful things or trauma's of the past, and wish them away, eat, drink, smoke, sex or pill them away. At the core of this it seems what these emotional wounds all have in common is fear. This trepidation that they haven't the strength to confront, by themselves, or perhaps guilt, remorse, or a need to fall into self deprivation to the extremes that they create an imbalance somewhere along the way, mentally, emotionally or spiritually.
So in that journey, I raise my glass to you, the reader, and to all that you are, and all that you are not, and all that you will become, and I offer you this toast to Your Health.
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