A Model for the Future Resilient You

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I like to find inexpensive, accessible, natural, gentle healing system allies. Whether as light as a herbal hair rinse and facial oil or as hefty as immunity-boosting stress-relieving therapies – we can all find inroads to manage our anxiety in these covid cycles. From brewing kitchen magic with nature’s pharmacy to empowering ourselves with pathogen-fighting healing medicines and modalities – we can also build a resilient, handy and hardy life post-corona chaos.

It starts be re-valuing the sacred. Re-enchanting the everyday, magical makeovers to the mundane. In the great turning, great unravelling, whatever you want to name it, we still have within us as humanity the advanced neurological pathways (evolved over millennia) to get us out of the mess we’re in. To find small, perhaps slow(er) solutions – but ones that are healing, compassionate, loving, kind, protective, mothering and peaceful. 

We can make the best of any circumstance. We can all, even at home or in quarantine, find a space to sit and watch the sky – the trees, rivers or seas and birds, perhaps if only in our imagination for some. But we can calibrate that meditation. We can evoke awareness of place, feel our fleshy bodies as bedrock, notice our senses, cultivate a state of relaxed awareness, observe what comes up, ground-down in the here and now. We can actively seek to reduce complexity where needed yet reject redaction when it does not serve. We can bloom, at business and outside of business. We can emancipate enslaved thoughts and design new success strategies for the tough decade ahead.

We can tap into a depth portal of Gaian elder goddess wisdom within. We can build sanctuaries and safe spaces to deal with grief and panic. We can embrace all eight forms of Capital (not just one): Intellectual, Spiritual, Cultural, Experiential, Social, Material and Financial. We can nurture back life on this planet and practice peace as well as possibility-hunting.

“Wash me with Hyssop” says psalm 51. Clean-out all your baggage. 

You could literally cleanse with concoctions of healing purifying Rue, Florida water, Cinquefoil, Rosemary, Sage, Bay, Angelica, Dragons Blood, Frankincense, Spikenard, Horehound, Mugwort, Calamus, Pennyroyal, Garlic and Anise. As well as oils for mind and soul, you could nourish the body with a kitchen cupboard of raw nutrients and adaptogens like Maca, Mesquite, Wheatgrass, Barleygrass, Spirulina, Goji, Mulberry, Flax, Hemp, Cacao, Coconut, Honey, Acai, Vanilla, Chia, Mushroom and Pollen. 

And beyond herb magic you could source good health from within by making contact with the wild self. She calls you, she nurses you, she cradles you in her protection – let her re-colonise your inner landscape.

Embrace her pharmacopoeia, spread her healing of soul-care. She is not clockwork, nor machine. She has no wizard behind her veil with a keyboard. She is your path to redemption, she will jailbreak your soul from a black iron prison. Make no nefarious bargain with Faust with eyes wide shut. Love is freedom. Power is not a simulacra. 

Be with the cartography of the geography of Self. And breathe in, breathe out. This is the model for the future you. For you are resilient.