Where to Begin? Practices for “Right Balance”

by Jul 8, 2021Uncategorized

I start with the premise, myself, that I need first to be grounded firmly on the ground and connected firmly with Nature. For me, that seems a necessity. I even have a bias that that is needed for all humans to be in right balance with their essential nature. For me, I also seek to be as connected as I can with that part of me that I think of as Spiritual (call it Highest Self, higher consciousness, “soul,” “spirit,” or other words that might have meaning to others). This connects me with something larger than myself. I also work from the premise that both right brain and left brain “engagement” is needed. By right brain I think of access to our creativity, intuition, “sixth sense,” access to our body, and our senses. We access wisdom from our dreams, imagination, and other less “linear” sources. Left brain is, in my way of thinking, the other kind of intellect that we think of as more linear — judgment, discernment, book learning, ability to form concepts and have access to abstraction – these are, for me the internal “start” places, and from there I feel into how I interact with the environment.
The David Suzuki Foundation

The David Suzuki Foundation

The David Suzuki Foundation, founded in 1990, (https://davidsuzuki.org/) has as its guiding principles:

One nature. We are nature. All people, and all species.

We are interconnected with nature, and with each other.

What we do to the planet and its living creatures, we do to ourselves.

Ishmael

Ishmael

Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. The novel examines the hidden cultural biases driving modern civilization and explores themes of ethics, sustainability, and global catastrophe. Ishmael aims to expose that several widely accepted assumptions of modern society, such as human supremacy, are actually cultural myths that produce catastrophic consequences for humankind and the environment.