18/05/2023
The Woo
I don’t use that term much anymore because I think it detracts from something very real and very important. You can call it quantum physics and lead with science for the un-believers, or you can just know what you know, experience what you’ve experienced. Be open to all the possibilities.
But here are a few facts:
Serotonin – the “happy” hormone - is a natural chemical the intestines and brain produce. It helps the body send messages between nerve cells and affects mood, emotions, and digestion. 95 percent of the body's serotonin is manufactured in the gut.
Recently scientists have discovered that the heart is involved in the processing and decoding of intuitive information, that the heart appears to receive the intuitive information before the brain.
Follow your heart. Listen to your gut. Leave the thinking to your brain – which is not always what we’ve cracked it up to be.
That fact is, a lot of what people call “woo” can actually be explained. And yet, some of it can not. And that’s just fine. There is a lot we still don’t know about everything – our bodies, the universe, and we will never know it all.
How presumptive to assume that everything can – or should - be known.
I have learned to (re)develop – probably the better word is allow – my energetic connection to animals. I do not believe that this is some mystical, special skill. I absolutely believe that we are all born with it – watch young children interact with animals and it’s pretty clear. Our western cultures, in their reverence to all things intellectual/logical, eradicate these abilities as children and then continue marginalizing these things as we mature in order to fit in.
My question is, just what is it that we are fitting into? It would seem to be a pretty narrow definition of reality and acceptability, in my opinion and experience.
What we are told is unacceptable as children, some of us spend the better part of a lifetime trying to get back to it. If we are lucky, we never lose the thread.
We fear that which we can not explain easily.
We fear being different, not fitting in.
Most importantly, we have been taught not to trust ourselves.
Well, as Joni Mitchell once wrote: We are stardust, we are golden, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
(Sidenote: I believe that our disconnection from nature is at the source of our illness, sadness, anger and general chaos and disarray as a human race. But, I digress.)
Animals, horses in particular – perhaps in part because they are prey animals – are very energetic beings. They are so much more tuned into their environment, and the beings that inhabit it, than we are. I always feel like they are just waiting for us to figure it out and meet them, in the few and far between moments when we can quiet our heads and let our hearts and intuition lead. Just quietly waiting. Because this is the plane upon which they live, despite our almost constant quest for them to disassociate from it.
But, thank goodness, they mostly refuse to inhabit our world – sometimes much to our chagrin. If we can think about joining them closer to where they are, instead of constantly insisting that they come down to our level here, well things would be, can be, so very different. Revere them for their knowledge and understanding of things we are simply clueless about. Find a middle ground that acknowledges the best of one another.
So, going forward, I want to bring this out into the light of day. Give it air, give it the credence it deserves. I will write more about it, talk about it openly. I will call it energy, because at it’s core that’s what it is. Because that’s what we all are, energy. Explainable or not.
I will no longer call it The Woo.
