| We must become the architects of our own healing. | | | | have a beautifully specific design that when embodied |
| Life is traumatic. From the big trauma of being born | | | | and enacted becomes a self-healing machine. |
| and taking our first breath to the lesser traumas of | | | | Everyone knows what cancer is. Everyone knows |
| day-to-day life we are here to be beaten up and to | | | | what asthma is. Most people have heard of the word |
| one degree or another develop an inner support | | | | melanoma and can visualize a tumor but most people |
| system to heal. Like the pulsing of the heart and the | | | | have not heard of the word psoas. Very few people |
| ebb and flow of the tides, the body's trauma/healing | | | | know what the hyoid bone is. We are painfully familiar |
| interplay is as natural as breathing. | | | | with external circumstances or things that work upon |
| Our world has moved in strange directions in the last | | | | us when we're really not all that familiar with the |
| half-century. Every year Americans are turning more | | | | wonderful, magical body that we inhabit which can help |
| and more to surgical fixes for their injuries and ailments. | | | | us prevent so much of what ails us. |
| With every ache and pain we take an advil or alleve. | | | | Our bones hold us up, our muscle move the bones |
| We are a society of external fixes, in search of a | | | | after getting direction from the nerves. If the bones are |
| magic blue pill that will fix what ails us. The shift must | | | | aligned and the muscles toned every movement you |
| be towards self-care and a belief that no one knows | | | | make will tone and stimulate all of your internal organs. |
| your body better than you. Doctors, nurses and body | | | | Learn how your body works and discover that you |
| worker's all serve a purpose. We need them to help | | | | are your best doctor. Cultivate a dialogue with your |
| facilitate our care and our health. But we have to take | | | | body that prioritizes instinct and trust. Get to know |
| them off of the pedestal that we have created and | | | | yourself. There is no better means to prevention. Be |
| become more pro-active in our own healing process. | | | | your own healer. |
| What can and will fix us is easily found inside. We | | | | |