Getting Real, Care to Join me. . .

I see that interestingly, we have created a ‘crisis culture’ consciously and unconsciously, but collectively.  With that is an addictive habit of negativity, fear based dramas, over-reacting, ongoing confusion with ‘saying one thing and doing the opposite’, and overwhelming projects produced for even greater chaotic patterns.

What to do?  First of all, it is important to note we are ‘bumping up against the same ‘tree’, set of trees, repeatedly.  Secondly, ask the question, ‘Why’?  To me, it doesn’t matter if the issue is personal or professional. . .the the paradigm needs an objective perspective and process.  Not always easy to get enough distance to see the forest without the objectivity, openness to a new prototype and paradox potential, but grow and change we must.

I’ve been in love with Complexity Theory, Systems Strategies, Universal Principles, Life really, ever since I found The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge, Tom Peter’s, Peter Drucker, Deepak Chopra and Charles Handy back in the early 90’s.  Today, I’ve incorporated more new mental models by Russell Ackoff, Meg Wheatley, Warren Nilsson and Peter Block focused on organizational behavior.  They provide my Whole Health and a Well Being worldview with formulas for cracking the code and a language to articulate it.

Soulutionary Suggestion: I’m creating Authentic Circles with Thinking Allowed. . .The Conversation for the Cure here for greater Service Learning there.

A New View and Venue

 “Reality is a collective hunch.” says Lily Tomlin, in The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe.  Wow, talk about a One Woman Show.  One of my favorites, as is the New Mental Models of Quantum Physics.   Why?  Because much of our past ‘absolutes are limiting’ and I’m a Liberation thinker.  For example: “An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about a Physician in the Allopathic Medical System and not about the Patient and not factual.  Actually, some might refer to this as ‘medical hexing’ because it leaves no room for alternative analysis or the unknown.

While moving toward more mysterious models,  problems have risen from more mechanistic thinking that sees a human being as a collection of separate parts rather than an integrated whole .  Yet we keep insisting on this archaic worldview.  Why, because it is what we have learned and believe despite formidable research and evidence to the contrary.  We know, for example that dis-ease on multiple levels, Physically, Psychologically and Spiritually, is a direct result of our separation from our deeper essence.  There is no question, for the most part, that our lifestyle choices are poor, out of balance, and often insanely over the top.   However do we self organize  or course correct rather than make an appoint to see our physician who will give us drugs.

Our essence comes out of the Universe, but do we have a unified Universal perspective or a highly segregated ‘localized’ one?  Is our Big Picture authentic, transparent and does it honor a wholistic homeostasis producing health and wealth in our world for all?  We have started Conversations for the Cure through highly Innovative Integral Incubators.  See Service and Treatments on this Website for further details.

Eco-logy

“Ecology” is made up of two important Greek words, each  a gateway to mysteries that lie at the very base of human life.  Its etymology shifts attention away from science and focuses on emotion, mystery, religion and, the heart.  If we would think of ecol-ogy as a development of the internal as well as the external life, we might deepen and humanize our relationship with nature,” Thomas Moore, Re-enchantment of Everyday Life.*

 Eco from the Greek, oikos, refers to the human home, a sanctuary, even a astrological ‘house’.  Oikos emphasizes our need to come home to our BodyMind and Soul in this space, place and time.  Logos, the other part of (ecology) is full of mystery, sacred implications, but meaning “the study of”.

  Today, I want to look at the tangible concerns of this term and tomorrow, I'll discuss the intangible.  To begin the discussion of oikos I ask you to contemplate the following questions.   What does being home mean to you?  When you are home, are you wishing you were back at work or is home the shelter for your soul?  Are you able to think of home as a sanctuary, the place for real genius, creativity, and synergy?  If not, why not?

 While at home are you and loved ones happy, renewed, and empowered or is there a homesick  environment with people bored, unable to learn or lean in?  All signs indicate this society is not learning at a soulful level, and this is having a devastating impact on our ability to co-create a more humane world.  I believe The Conversation on this topic and more can be the cure we’ve been searching for and why Wellness Without Wall offers several Innovative Integral Incubators for it.  See Services and Treatments on this Website.

Innovative Integral Incubators - Integrating Forces from the Field

“Forces will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses.  Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence will bring the inevitable to pass. . .” – Joseph Campbell

The decision to commit to being your Authentic Self and follow Your Bliss, as Joseph Campbell would say, is a heroic step of courage.  The reason I say this is as soon as you decide to ‘Take up the Mantle’ you may also find Old Issues surfacing and  Personal/Professional blockages emerging, to test your dedication. Therefore, I strongly encourage you to travel this path with a peer partner.   Additionally, I want to create a small sacred circle around you.

I’ve done substantial American Indian retreats on everything from Vision Quests, to Sweat Lodges, to Medicine Wheels, and more .  I’ve followed Cherokee, Lakota and Hopi disciplines because of their emphasis on Mother Nature and incredible reverence for all living systems.  You and I will often begin our events honoring the Four Directions, integrating Smudging, and Talking Stick because this work has Multiple Dimensional meaning.  It is: Multi-Cultural, Multi-Disciplined and Multi-Sensory.

Healing into wholeness is open to showing emotions, which  flow freely here.  This paradigm, though flexible, has a confident presence and consequently, we’re playful enough to laugh at ourselves.  Last but not least gratitude, forgiveness, compassion and genius are absorbed easily here.

Pro-Active Communication for the Cure

If you have ever spent more than five minutes with me you will understand I do not separate BodyMind and Soul.  I’m confident however that much of chronic disease has reached an epidemic proportion because society has separated them and much more.  There are three important questions to ask yourself when your BodyMind is giving you a message labeled as Depression, Obesity, Cancer, Heart Attack, etc.:

1.     Why You?

2.     Why This?

3.      Why Now?

I was only forty years old when I dropped to my knees from pain then passed  out when I discovered I had the Super Woman’s Disease, ‘Severe Endometriosis’.  Fortunately, after trying every drug possible, major surgery took place, and I was recovering well.  However, I cried buckets, listening to my body in the healing process, noting my sheer exhaustion and insane lifestyle of unrealistic, out of balance personal/family and professional expectations.  This was a huge turning point in my life, as a disease of this nature can be for many of us.

When people come to me now, I keep boxes of kleenex handy because they have not done the BodyMind and Soul assessing or expressing required.  Rather, they have been numbing out with the usual distractions and addictions: Mountain Dew, Super-sized Fries, Snickers Bars, constant Cell Phone calls  throughout the day and later Drinks, Prescription Drugs, and Dinner, while talking about those Cardinals, the Weather,  Politics, or Celebrities.

 I, a Social Entrepreneur, have an Innovative Integral Incubator alternative that includes Pro-Active Communication for the Cure.  If you check out Services & Treatments on this website, you will see the variety of ways we integrate contemplation into action for  change. If you would like current flyers and e-mail specials refer to  my contact information.  I would love to hear from you.

Are We on the Right Path?

 Apparently, we continue to go to the Dark Side where, according to Yoda  “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”  Our own reality is a continual curriculum of LifeLong Learning and if we aren’t continually evolving and raising the bar, we get to repeat the past class. . .similar to Bill Murray in Ground Hog Day.  Today, our country is in one of the worst Healthcare crises of all times.  In 2009 this administration determined to make Healthcare a priority and called a summit meeting of experts in Healthcare  to determine the course correction.  The unanimous conclusion was Prevention Promotion would be the priority with a focus on LEARNING.  The way we have ‘edumacated’ people in the past about Well Being hasn’t worked, and we needed to do this differently.

Several months after this meeting The Oz Show began with daily TV entertainment on Wellness.  A Youth Health Corp was founded to get young people involved in educating young people.  The whole country was emphasizing Creating Healthy Communities in magazines, newspapers, the internet, and residential areas: Celebration Health, Canyon Ranch, etc.  So, The Field was bombarded with this Vision to ensure we would come together in a Shared Vision of New Mental Models and Systems Strategies to improve the American Lifestyle with an emphasis on healthier Body, Mind, and Soul sources.  "Do or Do Not, there is no Try!" (more Yoda Wisdom)

How are we doing?  The Well Being Gallop Poll has rated Missouri at a whopping 38th, putting us just above Arkansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi.  The present projected cost for treating just Diabetes in the US  is over $3 Trillion. Diabetes is directly connected to obesity and often referred to as Diabesity.  Obesity is directly connected to depression and depression underlies 50% of all degenerative diseases  including Arthritic, Respiratory and Heart. 

May the Force be with You!”  -Yoda, Star Wars (George Lucas)

Searching The Field for The Force

Once I left home, I began a personal search for another way of being in the world.  I had no clue what that would look like, I just knew I wanted life for me and my children to be deeper, better and more meaningful than what I was seeing around me.  Every step of the Journey gave me a piece of the message about who I was and my purpose on the planet.  However, it wasn’t until I discovered this Wholistic approach that gave me the Big Picture Vision.  That  Vision began to make sense and felt doable.  I knew I could find communities with a Shared Vision of this Complexity Theory by Soulutionaries (as I call them).

These Soulutionaries are Top Scientist, International Leaders, Physicians (of) Global Medical Minds, Superior Academics from around the world, that are highly credentialed, researchers, and authors with empirical evidence of a larger Worldview, which  I will be sharing with you today.

 

"Can you see The Field" was my last comment from yesterday because this is key for me, or as they say in Proverbs 29:18, “ Without the Vision, the people will Parish" and  Einstein said, “The Field is the only reality.”  Now, as meaning makers, how are  we going  to interpret this and how are we going to talk about The Force and with what language.  Are we going to integrate the message for  all, or keep it separated as we have in the past.  And if we choose to keep it all separate. . .is that realistic?  Yes, things that make me go hmmm?