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We can build resilience in ourselves and
others by following a framework for self-help practice. This self-reliant
self-care can guide us through transition, can be a therapy to deal with
uncertainty and change. As we cultivate the land, growing from seed, we can
nurture and water our own hyper-local ecology: our bodies. Like we feel soil
and walk through forest passage, there is natural medicine and magic to be
found in our inner garden and personal edens within. We have each our own
unique environmental ecosystem, a bio dome inside us. As we work land in the
outer world, we can till inner soil with horticulture of the soul. Elegantly,
simply, quietly – like a clandestine node in the network – we can plant inner
hope in a pestilence growing cycle. We can reinvigorate our energy system
inside-to-out. We can riff on vibes of coherence and bring ourselves back to
life with vitality. We can travel beyond dark shadow mountains of despair and
set off on a self-rescue mission of hope. We just need our imaginations!
The father of Permaculture, Bill Mollison
once said: “The yield of a system is theoretically unlimited, or limited only
by the information and imagination of the designer.”
Another great permie, the movement’s
co-founder, David Holmgreen said: “The butterfly is a positive symbol of
transformative change in nature, from its previous life as a caterpillar. The
proverb “vision is not seeing things as they are but as they will be” reminds
us that understanding change is much more than a linear projection. Abundance
is unlimited!”
So we must think in spirals and circles and
ellipses (and all different forms of pattern) just not linear. We can un-civilise ourselves, tap into the
wilderness inside and unleash the wild self, the untamed soul. Regenerate her.
Rewild her.
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