Learning to Let Nature Do the Work
Finding Coherence Within Complex Systems
If there is one thing my dance with cancer is teaching me, it is that I get to choose. I choose to release all the adjusting, fixing, and pleasing and see myself as a complex system nested within many other overlapping systems. The choices I make from coherence move me into a new future.
If I ask myself what does the Garden of My Body need, right now, to personally thrive and bring my best into this fractured world? I begin seeing what emerges as fresh, coherent, and new but, it is only one half of the coin.
The other half is submerged and not moving. What keeps me repeating negative loops in relationships, my career, and/or my health? Where am I responding, and where am I reacting? You can feel the difference in your body. There is flow in one and frozenness in the other.
Coherence is in-between and always subtly shifting. It requires an attuned relationship to the Self as the touchstone.
That is not all because we are also talking about systems change. This requires the right, tiny yet consistent adjustments over time. We learn to work with time so that resonant patterns take hold. Emergence then comes on its own as a result of too many complex interactions to fathom.
Please know that this is not head work. You must feel, get into your body, and do not make the mistake of thinking that if you understand the concept, you've done the work.
Our bodies have super-sensory abilities that we have been taught to overlook. Make no mistake, they record and still reverberate all familial, ancestral, and cultural past assaults while retaining the real promise of a pluripotent future. The door in is your living body, here and now.
This brings me back to my slow dance with cancer and my invitation to you to not try to figure it all out. You are a creator, and the best way to create is from coherence.
Rest in the somatic spaces you have not gone to before. You don't have to follow the program. You can follow Nature. When you're unsure, get curious.
Stay with yourself. You will find the physical and the metaphysical merging in this arising moment.
Meanwhile, make one tiny consistent change to support this positive feedback loop. Maybe you set a timer on your phone for a 20-minute breathing practice, or you lie on the floor for 10 minutes every day and allow your body to to gently move. Attune to your body's real needs and begin shifting your ecosystem with simple practices to support you.
This takes slowing down and looking at the story of the shape your body has adapted over time. That shape holds a rich narrative of what is submerged, is probably running the show, and blocking what wants to emerge as a new future. Then relax and let Nature do the work. Somatic system shifting is the deep transformation we need to stand on our ground, like a sturdy oak. Tending your garden is a process of rebuilding your relationship with your ecosystem and developing the intimate inter-relatedness to honor life.