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Energy Cycles and Disease
Reconnecting to our bodies and the planet
Anyone who has spent much time on a beach knows about ebb and flow. The ocean is a great teacher of the cyclical nature of all life on this glorious planet. The tides come in and they go out. All the animal life and plant life living in this ecological zone is aware of these cycles and their lives are structured to follow these natural cycles. It is all about energy.
Energy is cyclical and nature responds and reacts to these cycles in a natural and harmonious way. Humans, however, have lost touch with these natural cycles of ebb and flow. They have lost touch with nature.
In today’s modern culture humans are conditioned to ignore these natural cycles of energy. They are taught to constantly strive for societal notions of success. They are taught to never stop working towards these concepts of success. We must be constantly working towards this illusory fulfillment and any “slacking off” is considered as “bad” and “lazy” and “weak” and “anti-social” and “defeating.” Everything we do must be a means to an illusory concept of “success.” We are conditioned to believe that all the energy we put forward is a means to an end.
In the natural world there is no calendar of success. Time, like energy, is cyclical. The present moment is all that there is and that…
