The Energy Anatomy of Cronehood
The Power of Assimilation, Integration & Alignment: The Somatic Intelligence of the Crone
“Resilience is not a limited commodity. It arises organically from the somatic soil of assimilation, integration and alignment. Knowing how to tap that supply chain guarantees magnificent, even regal, cronehood.”
— Stephanie Mines, PhD
Crone intelligence arises from her internal amalgamation of experience and timeless transmission. Her somatic coalescing and consolidating, fusing and reformatting, generates an endless wellspring of attention, presence, inner awareness, and unstoppable evolution. The vibrant, flexible intelligence of the Crone is resilience incarnate.
Whether writer, artist, essayist, speaker, musician, scientist, or poet, the Crone is never alone in her delivery. She is a conveyor of a purposeful message that she sees in everyone and everything. The Crone is devoted to her own resilience, and yours, and resilience is devoted to her.
No matter size, appearance, or physical capacities, the Crone lives in the never-ending stream of expression and integrity.She does not compromise for money or marketing. She lives every day in truth to herself. She never tires from her embodiment of purpose. Indeed, that embodiment continuously regenerates her.
Crone Wisdom requires fortitude. As we know from history, the Crone Voice is not always applauded. Quite the contrary. Ferocity is an ingredient in the resilience formula.
Crones are not required to be nice. Being on point, ruthlessly honest, straightforward and unpredictable are also ingredients in the Crone Speak recipe for radiant perseverance.
The Crone is always beginning. She is always fresh; never redundant. Everything is new when seen through the prism of eternity which are the eyes of the Crone.
The Crone’s resilience formula necessitates:
Prioritizing one’s inner directives no matter what ;
Staying in your central channel of alignment: this means recognizing when you are not in that channel and knowing how to get yourself back into energetic alignment.
Living in the clarity that is rooted in connection to the earth;
Feeling unending kinship with the natural world that feeds you wherever you are, under all circumstances;
Attending to your energetic needs immediately;
Expression expression expression; and
Embodiment embodiment embodiment.
The Energy Anatomy of the Crone is Anchored in Alignment
We need alignment practices because, as I say in my book, We Are All in Shock, no one escapes the trauma that pervades the world. My dear mentor and colleague, Dr. Vandana Shiva, calls it “fossil fuel brain.” Whether as a result of racism, cultural undermining, sexual abuse, addictive responses to a myriad of afflictions, chronic illness, or the ravages of COVID, we are inundated by forces of fragmentation and distraction.
We listen to “gurus” about how to put ourselves back together and thereby make them wealthy and popular, but this is not an alignment practice. What we long to find is our own personal, somatic alignment and connection to the earth and to the natural world. That is why we need practices. Once the practices take root in us, the continuity of alignment is ceaseless. When our wisdom, that which we have held in the cells of our bodies, is re-membered and restored to us as our birthright, we are Crones. When the Crone Speaks, reorganization and healing begins.
I align myself with the earth and the natural world through a practice called The Main Central Vertical Flow. I learned it from Mary Iino Burmeister, who I studied with for decades and who is now my ancestor. This practice, when used consistently, is a stimulant to bring to the fore embodied and anchored Crone Speak.
The Main Central Vertical Flow installs the aligned energy anatomy of the Crone. Use it daily, morning or night, or both; use it whenever you need it, in whole or in part. Every step ignites alignment. The totality of the practice brings you into a center from which there is no departing.
Stay tuned for more alignment practices in future Crone Speak posts.
See below for the MAIN CENTRAL VERTICAL FLOW chart:
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