Effective, life-changing self-care reformats daily life so that we nourish ourselves with every action and interaction. At its core, self-care ignites and sustains a loving, seamless relationship with ourselves.
If we know and embody that we are constantly developing, evolving and moving beings, like embryos, then nothing is outside of self-care. The environment, whether propitious or deleterious, is a stimulus for innovating self-care.
Self-care means that we are never numb to ourselves, never coming out of embodiment, so that it is not possible for anyone or any event to steal or displace alignment.
No one can create your lifestyle of self-care for you. No matter how many books you read with asterisked schedules and lists of necessities, no matter how many self-care gurus you talk to who explain what you need to do, a lifestyle of authentic, personalized, and effective self-care grows out of self-awareness, sensory tracking and clarity about selfhood.
From my standpoint, self-awareness is best described as living into how I am interwoven with the natural world. I am an embryo, still moving in the direction of birth and rebirth, unfolding, folding and unfolding, in a continuum of life and death and life and death, over and over. Just as when I was in utero, I am shaped and influenced by the environment and energies around me, but what motivates me and moves me forward, is my will, my motivation, my core ignition. Self-care means recognizing and honoring that ignition.
No matter what food is available, or what privileges I have or do not have, my capacity to evolve is based on my motivational thrust, my commitment to development. Embryogenesis is driven by the drive for fulfillment. This core ignition does not go away as we grow bigger. The urge to evolve is innate and constant.
The energy medicine system that I live with and teach, consistently amplifies the urge to evolve. As when I was in utero, evolution is the center of everything. With that evolutionary impetus vitalized in every moment and with every breath, resilience always arrives. Perhaps not immediately, but at the moment when the healing vortex consumes the trauma vortex. That consumption is inevitable.
Through a lifestyle of alert and loving self-tracking, and sensory attunement, I maximize the way in which embryonic intelligence takes over and thus minimizes anything that antidotes it.
When I speak of the embryo, I speak of our androgynous beginnings, when we were pure life force and everything was new, fresh, curious and motivating. Those early days are reframed now in every moment, adjusted to the evolution of size and surroundings. The core ignition, however, remains the same. It is the eternal flame of primordial fire.
To spark your core ignition so that you re-member it, use this subtle energy medicine practice for the Spleen Meridian:
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