“A Sunday school teacher asked her little children as they were on the way to the church service, “And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?” One bright little girl replied, “Because people are sleeping.” Now, we chuckle at this, but history shows, there use to be considerable healing happening with people sleeping in church.
Travel back in time with me to Greece, where Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, and the temples provided a purification process for sacred healings.
Before you entered the Temple Gates, however, you needed to release your entanglement to the external world, so you were bathed, partcipated in fasting and other rituals of releasing the old, to take in the new. Now, inside this Healing Ecology there were Spas, Fitness Centers, Small Group Conversations on the Nature of Life, and Fine Arts abounded. We think often of the WholeHealth approach as “Evolutionary” because our lives have become so compartmentalized, and mechanistic. Note, however, this was occurring in the 3rd and 4th Century BC.
POINT: The Intention in The Field today is to co-create a more Whole Person Centered Well Being dynamic! Therefore, the attention will be on The Power of the Place and creating more Sanctuary Spaces to share.
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