Dancing back to vitality and wellbeing

We were driving down the highway to Denmark; a small, beautiful town on the south coast of Western Australia. After a few hours of travelling, we pulled off the road to stretch our legs. It seemed like the middle of nowhere; farmland on either side of the highway stretched out into rolling green hills. The road was dead straight for miles in both directions. We had left the CD playing loudly in the car and the Doors song Roadhouse Blues, punched its beat into the stillness. Without saying anything, we spontaneously started singing out, “Let it roll baby, roll…” at the top of our voices. At first we sang and swayed to the beat, then freeing inhibitions, we allowed our bodies to be danced across the road; laughing, twirling, dancing and singing with pure abandon. It was exhilarating!

Previously we had been sitting quietly for a few hours, lost in our own thoughts, looking out the window. After our dancing and laughing, we had magically been re-energized and lifted into a joyful, animated state that lasted the rest of the day. It’s that easy, I reminded myself, why do we keep forgetting to be joyful and energized? Why do we make things so complicated? Why don’t we listen to our bodies more often?

The body is so wise and so capable of an aliveness and vitality that we rarely tap into. The saddest part of it though, isn’t just that we don’t enjoy our vitality, but that we mostly disconnect, abuse and bully the body into an unnatural, fatigued and stressed state. Movement, sunshine and fresh air – miracle medicine! We seem to require reasons and research to convince us to be healthy and happy and we want instruction on how to do it. We are willing to pay for health and we have become blinded to truth and brainwashed by science and marketing.

In less than three minutes of dancing, we had all become energized, flexible, joyful and lighter. Yes, I do know from studies that we released and balanced chemicals, endorphins and hormones. Filled ourselves with negative ions and oxygen, released carbon dioxide, gases and toxins; absorbed vitamins and anti oxidants; moved lymph fluids and enhanced the immune system; alkalised the ph balance and blah, blah, blah. Do we really need to nit-pick and dissect everything before we understand the truth of truth?

I believe that we could read every scientific paper ever written and not know more than a grain of sand about how nature works. Only nature itself can show us how it works, and it can only achieve this by example. We really do not need to know what sunshine is and how or why it affects our bodies – but we know that it does; because we feel it. The very first and last thing we do is breathe; without breath there is no life and yet we rarely recognise it as a healing property or an essential life sustaining force. If lack of breath is death, then surely it is obvious that limited breath will create illness and disease! We have all felt a heightened sense of well-being due to sound, vibration, colour or movement, but very few would recognize these as healing influences.

We tend to isolate disease and name it. Disease is not just a condition of an organ or a function; it is evidence that the whole organism is in crisis. Heart disease is not simply a mal function of the heart; cancer is not just abnormal cells trapped within a tumour; arthritis is not just wear and tear on our joins. We can temporarily treat a disease or artificially support or repair parts, but we must return to our natural laws to address the cause. Most disease is an unconscious form of suicide – suicide through neglect, ignorance or abuse.

A gardener can look at a diseased plant and know that it is in distress due to lack of sunlight or water. He doesn’t focus on the dead leaves or the invading insects – he studies the environment of the garden. Disease sets in due to lack of essential requirements. It might be weeds robbing the plant of nutrients, too much water, not enough light or harsh weather conditions. Although a gardener might have to chop back a few branches (surgery) and add fertilizer (drugs) his main concern is in bringing the environment back into balance. He will relocate the plant if it is in a stressful position; protect it with mulch, feed the soil or erect a wind break. Much of our modern medicine can be likened to chopping off the dead wood. It doesn’t address the cause and it doesn’t produce long term solutions; the problem will either return or show up in other areas.

We expect a pill or a procedure to restore us and we actually believe it does. We recover from one disease and then return to our previous habits. Cancer, as an example, is not the result of any particular carcinogen. A healthy body easily deals with toxins, bacteria, pollutants, virus, parasites and any and all imbalances. The body is designed to heal, protect and renew itself. I doubt that we will ever know the amazing capacity we have to maintain our bodies. I really don’t believe that any of us understands just how far away from nature we have taken ourselves. Disease is the result of many, many abuses, and over a long period of time. Most of us pay little attention to what we eat, specifically what we need to eat. We ignore pain or mask it with medication. We lack sleep and often use pills to induce unnatural sleep. We live according to artificial light rather than follow the rhythm of night and day. We breathe air conditioning and polluted air most of the time. We eat and drink an extraordinary amount of chemicals. Many people need medication to digest and eliminate food; that is, we can’t even crap without help! Our water is bleached. Even our own thoughts are flooding our bodies with stress hormones and acidic chemicals. We hold our bodies in bondage by sitting and staring into computer screens, in a sea of radiation; contorting muscles and inhibiting blood flow.

Don’t cry out in despair at the unfairness of disease or wonder at its cause. All of us are actively destroying our bodies in so many ways - everyday. Perhaps this modern world does require some compromise but, do we really see just how much we are compromising?

Is there a cure for cancer? I don’t think so, at least not by today’s methods or treatments; at best, we achieve varying degrees of remission. We are simply removing the dead wood and then continuing to poison the garden.

If the body is tired, lacking vitality and well-being, then let’s call that ‘disease’ and bring it back into balance in a natural and nurturing way. Perhaps we might only need to dance it back to life.

Copyright Sonya Green
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