Self Compassion

Following on from the Intro to Magic Makers where I lay out the reason why biologically we are often swimming in a physiological state that creates or recapitulates brutality in some way, we went on to do the first session. This session is on self compassion. This is the self compassion that we be able to be energetically uncharged in supercharged times. This is the self compassion that will help us 'choose another way' and open up to the possibilities carried in our inner knowing of the 90% that has been lost to us and Gaia. We have to open ourselves to new but old ways and this is the place we are doing work to make that happen.

Intro to Magic Makers

Thank you for being here. I’m so grateful to be able to bring these new concepts of healing into the world where we explore our individual contribution to restorative justice through healing the brutality that is a part of each of us. This work has the potential to of course change your health and your life, but it also means that your uncharged reactions will be a resource when there are multiple fires raging within incredibly explosive situations. What influence we have within our world needs to be from a wider perspective than we have all been indoctrinated into believing is the highest potential available. Let me explain.  

There is a concept in biology and human behaviour of the ‘shifting baseline’. [Griff Griffith discusses this in his podcast ‘We Live in a 10% World’.] How is this related to our desire to enact change in our world? It is essential for us to widen our perspective of what ‘normal’ is for us, our communities, the world community, our relationship with the land and the greater ecosystem and our spiritual connections. From a biological perspective we now live in a 10% world compared to what there was available even 200 years ago. 

But what if the 10% world wasn’t just our ecosystem? What if we have also lost 90% of the possibilities that are available within us to be a human being on this planet? What if we are setting our sites too small for the changes that we are actually capable of enacting? 

This shifting baseline piece is an important concept when we consider the push for restorative justice from our personal actions/inactions and the actions of our ancestors. We need to be mindful of what we are restoring things to and not just allow it to be based on the 10% that is our experience of maximum possibility but allow ourselves to widen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. We have a new but old concept of the potential for ourselves and our world. 

Most of us here today already understand the philosophical and practical movement that recognises a very different perspective of our world than the one that has been carved into the framework of the societies we live in. That different perspective is that we are a part of an ecosystem and indeed ARE an ecosystem in our own physical form (literally), NOT that we are at the top of it. The brutality implicit in the systems we have inherited include the buildings that some of us live or study in being made with slave labour or the proceeds from that, the conflicts going on around the world being a direct extension of policies that were prioritising one aspect of humanity over another, often in a reactive and manipulative way for individual state power. And of course there are so many more examples. It is also within our bodies with the toxins from the industrial farming and the anti-life medicines that most of us grew up imbibing. 

This, unfortunately is not new. Humanity has been embroiled in an us vs them instinct as a part of our evolution from a single celled organism. IT IS A PART OF OUR PHYSIOLOGY, especially as a first reaction to a trauma. This is called the cell defence response and it means we retreat into an extreme stress mode of ‘I am alone and it’s every ‘man/cell’ for themselves. What has been found recently is that without this phase of reaction, our healing is incomplete. It is the biological push to survive. But the process of healing will ideally reorganise into a viable ecosystem that allows cooperation and harmony. The body has to overcome the separation phase by allowing it to fully happen, release and then it can step into another phase of healing.

This extreme separation phase that includes a ‘kill or be killed’ mode of reactivity as a part of our healing response means we need to accept that we are capable of being brutal at our core. From my perspective as a healer, IT IS OUR JOB TO LESSEN THAT BRUTALITY PHASE SO WE CAN TAP INTO OUR INNER KNOWING OF THE 90% THAT HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN BY MOST OF THE WORLD. It is possible for us to become injured but our entire ecosystem of our body NOT being drawn into the conflict

After working with people for nearly 20 years to heal their physical bodies, I know that removing the leftover experiences of trauma allows the greatest changes to bodies and lives/relationships. This is because the reactivity of the whole organism into a brutal context is lessened as we lessen the stories that are allowed to live within us. Our trauma stories link us to the vision of the 10% world versus the wider potentiality for us and all of gaia and that includes what our leaders envision as a possibility for our nation states interacting with other nation states. 

My desire is for us to heal at the core of what we believe is the potential for us and our world. And we have to start this by bringing self compassion for the brutality that is within us from our own lives or our ancestors or via our past lives. 

Notes: I was made aware of the Cell Defence Response by Mel Hopper Kopplemen who does incredible work in her Synthesis Health Labs. The Cell Defence Response work is based on the work of Robert Naviaux and his lab in San Diego.