Bringing Back the Dao… A Story of What Was and Still IS.
Once upon a time….. there was ‘the way’. This ‘way’ guided all beings through listening to the language of ‘energy’. We humans all felt, saw, heard and imagined through the sensory experience of vibration and frequency. This natural occurrence was not considered extraordinary or deemed a super-power, it was a ‘way of life’. When we honoured this way of life and treasured the interconnectedness of all, this evolutionary path brought abundance to all, cared for all and created a regenerative rhythm that nourished all life.
There were many stories told and embodied in diverse cultural ways that maintained a harmonious existence and when that harmony was compromised, a natural rebalancing took place through deep listening to the infinite field of intelligence and the earth, our home. We understood universal and natural law that were woven into these stories, danced and sung back to our home so she knew we cared, loved and held her in reverence.
Whatever occurred to bring our home planet into disrepair and imbalance along our convoluted evolutionary path is irrelevant, as long as we return to this sense of awe and wonder about who we are and how we can be better as one human species on this living planet. There’s so much to be grateful for as we look around and see how our planet is always thriving, with or without our input. What matters most is how we CARE and continue to CARE for ourselves, all beings and our home.
As earth quakes increase, floods ravage, turbulent weather rages and atmospheric changes continue to reflect back to us the necessary lessons and learnings, how can we pause and begin to listen from within first before taking human-centric ‘heavy-footed’ action rather than eco-centric ‘light-footed’ steps that move rhythmically and cyclically with our home planet. After all, our physical body is a direct reflection of our Earth. Listening to our own bodies means we listen to our Earth’s body, her heart beat is beating through us with each breath we take. Each inhale is her exhale, each exhale is her inhale.
This reciprocal relationship honours ‘the way’ and restores harmony without adding to the load we have already created. I feel the ‘pause’ is the most powerful way to begin the process of slowing down to reflect on what we have and utilise our own innate technology and sensory wisdom. There’s no need to seek, it’s all inside if we can pause and listen. Creating harmony and resonance through understanding nested living systems is where we return to balance.
How can we create more harmony?
By connecting to the building blocks of life - the elements and seasons. Those that exist within and around us and are the original forces derived from the duality that is life on Earth (Yin and Yang) always guiding us home to the harmony of ‘the way’. We can speak to the elements, we can appreciate the elements within us that cycle through our bodies and correspond to the living organs and meridians that animate our existence.
By offering up our unconscious and conscious patterns and mind games in return for humility and reverence so that we can hold a vibration of love and care without needing to prove anything but rather hold compassion and listen to what ‘the moment’ is asking of us. Noticing the many distractions in life is a good way to begin to identify and acknowledge our looping mind games and patterns.
By honouring the silence that allows us to hone our deep listening skills and instinctual sensory capacities so what emerges comes from a balanced heart-led place. That emergence may or may not require action, it may simply need to be respected as it is and allowed to unfold as it is without any human intervention. We are all pieces of the mammoth puzzle.
So much of our lives are lived in busy-ness that remembering who we are and how we once lived is impossible. I feel the ‘great turning’ in reference to our Aquarian age relates to the undoing of the ‘great forgetting’. First thing first….
All is not lost in this evolutionary story, just acknowledged, honoured and accepted as it is. No blame, shame or finger pointing, a simple humbling moment that emerged in written word to be shared with those who are listening. We can only do our best, so how we show up each day in loving care for all life, means we are leading with love and experiencing ‘the way’ in multiple iterations that allow us to learn, evolve and celebrate this life in every moment. All is well.
Many blessings,
Gina xx
