Happy Spring Equinox (& the Real New Year)!
Now is the time to kick off that new project or health routine you have been thinking about. You could revisit the New Years resolutions you made 3 months ago but then forgot about in the slumber of groggy winter 😆.
Why is this a better time?
The hot-blooded energy of Aries will fuel you through the difficult beginning of re-patterning habits.
Now onto the deeper thoughts of the moment:
I realize that at times my emails teeter on the edge of readability.
By which I mean; you signed up for a nice Ayurveda wellness email & I often write things that aggravate your already frazzled nervous systems.
I do apologize for this, and yet I think that looking clearly at where we are is the only way to improve. This is a clear lesson from Ayurveda; without understanding the causes we can't possibly correct the disease.
We all know that there is something wrong with our planet, something wrong with the way that we live, something wrong with our food, air, water, entertainment, economy (see below for references if you need any) .... We feel this in our bodies & are trying to mitigate the damage with All Organic Ingredients. But the real cause is deeper than that.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
The cause for our troubles is not one thing; it is almost everything.
Late Stage Capitalism didn't plot against the Average Joe to create this situation. Reification of Profit + lack of responsive regulation + citizens with heaps of numbing trauma are the ingredients. They/we worked out how to get comfortable(ish) & stay comfortable & the product of that is a world that feels like it is falling apart around us.
I'm not going to pretend to know The Answer for correcting this. There is no single answer. There is no single healing paradigm or political philosophy that can solve/salve the problems we are facing.
I do believe that the way to find answers is to engage deeply with ourselves & those around us, acknowledge where imbalance is arising & source healing from what feels deeply 'right'.
When the cause of personal/environmental/social devastation is ignorance, compartmentalization & numbness the solution must lie in the opposite direction: investigation, connectivity & fearless sensitivity.
The most potent New Year/Equinox commitment that we can make is to Connect More, Investigate with our Whole Heart & Create Fearlessly.
Godspeed!
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I found this Podcast to be a balm for what is overwhelming in the world. Hamid has a lovely way of contextualizing our dis-ease & his ideas have sent me in a new direction of investigating health & healing: Medicine Stories feat. Hamid Jabbar
Here is another good one if you are feeling particularly heady & scientifically spiritual- Skip to the middle for the meaty stuff about how all life on earth formed & melded into what we have now re Lynn Margulis: Fight Like an Animal: Sub-Self, Meet Meta-Self: Notes on The Emerging World Mind
If you listen & are curious about any of these ideas please reach out.
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In case you are feeling durable, here is a curated list of terrible things I have been reading:
And this really enlightening deconstruction of Big Tech: The Enshittification of Everything