“Everyone has a doctor in them, we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the strongest force for getting well. Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food”
If we are to go on a journey and we are hungry, angry, lonely and tired, we might not show up in good condition or get very far.
The ♠️ family helps us to look at what resources will help us live, grow and flourish not just in our own bodies but also so that we might contribute well to the thriving of our wider bodies: the body of our community of humans as well as the wide body of our world.
When we live in the modern world with its tendency to fragment, separate and distract us, we might forget that we are all interconnected and all made of the same materials, reliant on the energy of our star, the sun. Indeed the physicist, Fritjof Capra explained that nature works according ot three basic principles: networking, recycling and reliance on solar energy.
"Life's basic pattern of organisation is the network; matter cycles continually through the web of life; all ecological cycles are sustained by the energy of the sun"
Look at the image of our A♠️. Just like this tree needs food, water, sunshine as well as good roots to withstand the wind in order to grow strong and healthily, we need these things too. But trees are not meant to be alone. They dream of being forests just like we might dream of being in good communities.
Intertwining branches and roots symbolise the interconnectedness of our lives where one person's journey interacts with others. The vibrant, varied leaves in the forest signify the richness of cultures, perspectives and personalities within this shared space. So if we are well and healthy we can contribute to the support and shelter of the forest and receive this in return when we are more vulnerable. If we recognise our interconnections we can play our part in reciprocity, contributing to regeneration within a balanced ecosystem.
C o n n e c t i o n s
Feel Better Live More - podcast by Dr. Rangan Chatterjee- many episodes to help with resourcing
‘How do I resource myself? Why don't you draw your own tree and add the things which you need to resource and nourish you. We often think of self-care but how do we think about collective-care?’