20/12/2023
It can be easy to be against Western medicine including psychiatry, except for emergencies perhaps.
Yet there is a need for something else in its place, which must be different for each individual.
Soul medicine cannot be only prescriptive as allopathy is.
Soul medicine does not mean swapping supplements, herbs and a diet and exercise plan for pharmaceuticals, even while those habits prove important and supportive for many.
Soul medicine must be story medicine,
It must be vibrational, colorful, adventurous, in the moment.
It must be magical and otherworldly at times. It must connect heaven and earth. It must incorporate death and the dead including your own soul’s pre and post incarnated reality.
In other words, it must take into account who you were and will be before and after you came to live in this body you want to heal.
The soul wants to experiment and play and also has a set path of sorts.
The soul might need to separate from the limited narratives of Western medicine (or other things) for periods of time to find its own narratives, to hear its own music, write its own medical manuals which might be poetry, songs, paintings, or dances in the wind.
The soul might need to study deeply a single plant leaf or flower petal.
The soul might need to sit still and let things be as they are for periods of time, or to lie down and sleep so other realms can occupy the body.
The most important thing (to answer the question I get asked more than any other: what are alternatives to psychiatry?) is to give your soul the honor to explore.
Give your soul space from things that crush it and see what you find. As the soul has space from oppressive narratives, it naturally finds more expansive, powerful and enchanting ones.
The only warning is not to hop from one oppressive narrative to the next. Take a day off here and there, swim in a lake. As your soul has freedom to explore, and space from narratives that destroy it, confidence builds naturally.
Validation from the human consensus (collective mimicry) no longer holds as much weight as the inner knowing, which is intimacy with all things.
Your whole reality begins to shift to accommodate your liberated story, which you wrote into being.
Staying grounded in this process is important, and can be a full-time job and its own initiation, but staying grounded often looks like regular eating, sleeping, exercise, and connection with those your soul draws in.
it does not always have to mean conforming to despair, mediocrity and soul crushing common storylines about illness.
Stand strong, your soul and body can work together.
Fracture and disease models are only two things on the menu.
Your soul intuitively knows which meals it is here to eat, and make, savor, dream up, and transform with its presence, in and out of the dream world.