I am changing. The process will never be complete, because it is not something with an end goal. I have befriended my body. I sing, and dance, and pray.
Watch the sunrise
Accept
Refuse (the label/diagnosis)
Find silence (internally)
Eat (food, not poison)
Find the ground state
Find solitude
Find friends
Rest
Rest more
Regulate the nervous system
Take stock of the present (see #1)
Go offline
make art
Dance
Read novels
Get angry
release anger
Blame your parents
Blame the medical establishment
Blame big pharma
Blame agri-business
Blame God
Get embodied
Practice Meditation
Pickup Taijiquan and Qigong
Pick up Yoga
Learn to cook (everything from scratch)
Live away from the city
Take probiotics (as many as possible)
Swim in lakes, rivers, oceans
Stop drinking
Stop coffee
Stop smoking
Stop sugar
Stop TV
Stop social media (for a while)
Stop meds (gradually)
Examine fundamental thoughts (ongoing)
Learn about ~t r a u m a~
Learn about positive psychology
Take up walking as a practice
Take up journaling as a practice
Sleep (more, better)
Learn from your dreams
Get help from healers (who might be MDs, but probably are not)
Pray
Drop out (of school, of work)
Reduce stress to near zero (ongoing)
Eat fermented foods
Get lots of sun+air
Fast (intermittently, and for longer periods)
Fall in love
Meet your mentors
Get projected upon (‘you should do X! I think it will help you.’)
Practice listening to your heart
Recognize when you’re wrong
Listen to elders.
Take everything as an opportunity for growth
Dis-identify from the body (it is not I)
Get to know your cells (sing to them)
Tremor (release tension from your animal body)
Pendiculate
Sing to your heart
Gradually befriend the body as it is (without //trying// to change it by force)
Get inspired (by ancient wisdom, by your contemporaries, by a tree, by other cultures, by your self)
Uncompromisingly make self-healing the only priority
Relinquish attachment to outcome (I may never “get better”)
Learn about orthorexia nervosa
Draw like your child self did.
Slay your ego
Accept help
Forgive your parents
Take in old ideas about human potential (read old books)
Take in new ideas about human potential (read new books)
Cultivate awe
Look back with gratitude on the journey so far
Watch the sunset.
//
A long winding path, tremulously lit.
Traveler, there is no road.
I am crossing time
each of my selves
conceived otherwise
leap through one another in memory.
The road is made as you go
But tell me more about this path.
It is ever present, shifting
Not to accommodate,
Though it remains navigable.
Divergences cease to exist
Once a decision has been made
The path is only travelled once
Though it may come back around.
Each day along the path brings new learning
The feeling of the path changes
Come now, you’re already on your way
The path is shared by all, and differs for each.
(from my book, page 206)
I am changing. The process will never be complete, because it is not something with an end goal. I have befriended my body. I sing, and dance, and pray.