A guide to Holistic Living for peak performance, resilience, and happiness in challenging times
Taking a holistic approach to health and wellbeing is essential to the survival of our species.
Healing is an art. It requires a holistic understanding to grow and nourish our individual and collective potential.
Becoming fully integrated is the goal of the healing arts. Happiness, health, and optimal functioning mind-body. That is true fitness.
We are a PROFOUNDLY sick species right now. With so many of us who are confused about health. It is rare and valuable to be truly healthy.
Exercise is not Fitness.
Our lives are full of stress. To combat this we need to train. Fitness is not just nice to have, it’s a required skill set.
It is required work for our species to engage in to successfully navigate the next century and the impending threat of extinction.
We are disconnected from Nature.
The nature within us — we have become disconnected from our own bodies — and the LIFE that animates us…
…and our place in the natural world.
This disconnect is the ROOT of the challenges we all face right now.
The solution is to COME ALIVE again; that requires working HOLISTICALLY.
“The art of healing comes from nature and not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must start from nature with an open mind”
-PARACELSUS
In a time of systemic confusion; personal leadership is the way to start moving things in a positive direction. To discover and re-awaken the raw life within us is the essence of a holistic approach.
It's the only way we can begin to effect change. It's the only way we can fight the enemy — — PASSIVITY, DENIAL, and DISTRACTION.
To awaken to the true essence of who we are, together (more on this below)- that is the privilege of a lifetime! And that is what is being asked of us right now. With a shift in perspective, we can see that these are truly the BEST times to be alive.
We think that we are limited by time in our lives. But that's not true the only reason you/we are not living the collective dream of harmony and peace is that we don’t have the ENERGY.
Energy provides fuel. It also provides the medicine for you and your family to find health and vitality now, without reliance on allopathic means.
In addition, energy means we become FIT for SERVICE.
Inner victory precedes outer victory.
The training is about realizing our true healing capacity. To self-heal, self-awaken, and to self-empower.
When we befriend ourselves, become intimate and kind we automatically become wise, healthy, compassionate to others and the world.
The training, on a personal level, is one of mind-body peak performance. This training looks at HARMONISING the Body-mind system as a whole.
This is a natural process; so our job is to really connect to, open to, and allow life to flow within.
We have to combine:
- Physical and Physiological Health
- Holistic Nutrition
- Life nourishing Skills
- Building Mental and Physical Pliancy
- Strength and Flexibility Training
- Holistic education to understand principles and philosophies that enable us to MASTER the art of conscious living.
- Mediation (Building Greater Mindfulness and More importantly Heartfulness)
- Qi-Gong (medical, martial, spiritual healing arts) and/or Yogic Practice
- Find and/or create communities and community healing and learning models that engage in this work together (as well as the interpersonal healing and ecological regeneration)
“How are you able to fit in daily meditation with such a busy schedule?”
The Dalai Lama smiled and replied that on normal days, he meditates for 1 hour in the morning. He then smiled even bigger and said that on extremely busy days, he meditates for 2 hours in the morning.
The greater the challenge, the more on our plate, the greater the need to TRAIN.
On a personal level, it's not just about being FIT for service. This work simultaneously awakens the latent potential within.
Meaning, we begin to live a life on purpose in alignment with the highest expression of life possible for us.
There truly will never be another like you or I.
Within our core is a seed of potential (Genius/Soul) waiting to be allowed, given the chance to take root, grow and prosper.
All aspects of happiness, fulfillment, the joy of living, abundance, wealth, and prosperity are to be found within.
Even if your dream is to accrue material wealth; you still have to wake up get with the program if you want to do this effectively.
In a world where everyone is looking for a solution outside of themselves; choose differently.
Do not be under any illusion about where success, happiness, and connection come from. Lead yourself first.
Interpersonal Holistic Health
Being holistically healthy relates to our capacity for intimate connection with others.
Our core wounds were created in relationship with others and we are wired for social connection and co-regulation.
There are also greater forces at play at the interpersonal level such as collective trauma that requires groups of holistically healthy individuals working together to heal.
Our ability and capacity to ask for support and seek out help when required is also key to the healing process.
Really, we need to work together on healing our wounds and on transforming the ecosystems and land that we call home.
The holistic solution is to see that only by creating localized, healthy food and energy production will we overt disaster personally, interpersonally, and collectively.
Relational and interpersonal healing skills (i.e. healing our attachment wounds) don't just create healthy and happy lives.
They also create a safe psychological space for innovation to happen. We are full of genius creative ideas in every field of human endeavor. We have simply forgotten how to relate with each other in a way that nourishes this creativity and harnesses it to manifest positive change.
The Social Dilemma
No holistic discussion of interpersonal healing and relationship skills would be complete without discussing the “Social Dilemma”.
We are all connected digitally these days.
However, instead of sharing and collaborating on the transformations, we have to make now. We are instead caught in the grip of surveillance capitalism; literally hijacking this in-build desire for human connection to maintain the interests of the top 1%.
Everything written in this article so far is the solution to what we must do about this: Take back our personal sovereignty and wellbeing, stop waiting for permission to change, and co-create together.
…oh and stop playing the victim!
Let’s learn to use this technology in a life-supporting, life-nourishing way.
To share, inspire and express our highest vision of life…
…To orchestrate and catalyze the transformation into a more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
Building resilient, healthy, and creative local communities is the heart of holistic living.
Whether you like it or not the solution is to go back to our roots and more tribal, indigenous ways of living.
I wholeheartedly believe that if anyone is resistant to rebuilding local community-based lives (i.e. a network of tribes) they simply don’t see or understand the possibilities.
We are talking about thriving and flourishing, over and above simply doing this because it is what we have to do to stay alive and propagate the future of our species (but the latter is also true!).
It's about maximizing the quality of life. Enhancing our very experience of life. Dramatically Transforming it.
Yes, there is a lot that needs to change, it needs to be radical. That is why I began this Holistic look at creating a healthy planet with how to create healthy individuals and then healthy relationships.
The solutions exist already. Technology can link all of our greatest, most innovative solutions in healthcare, regenerative agriculture, education, spiritual wisdom, economics. To repeat, the solutions already exist.
And what's more, they are embarrassingly simple.
They are waiting for us to say “YES”.
To implement these changes from the ground up!
That's valuing healthy soil over gold, engaging directly with the land and natural world around us, training ourselves to become fit for serving life and the collective dream, and building resilient people and communities.
It's time to make your decision. Please Choose Life.
