Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona is one of my biggest inspirations in the healing world. I took a workshop with Lewis (as he is called by his students) at Kripalu (a yoga center in Massachusettes). Lewis is a half-Cherokee MD who has a very unique view of how healing happens; he believes that healing happens in the stories we have about our health and our potential healing.
Once upon a time there was True Love in the middle of Nothing. True Love was full of joy and harmony, but it was lonely, it had no one to share everything with.
Let's start off with the definition, Autonomy: The right of each individual to determine their own goals in life, and to decide how to achieve those goals. Lately I've been thinking about the road I'm taking and how many side streets I've taken, endless highways, and a few dead ends that I've hit, having to turn back around going back the way that I came and picking a different direction.
On my trip back from New York City on a Saturday morning in August, I inserted the Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles to listen to on our traffic jam laden voyage out of Manhattan.
This is going to be one of many short stories which compose a larger work, tentatively called "The Chronicles of He." This is the first one called Breakthrough, and is about His awakening to the World. Through the larger work I hope to explore the universally resonant issues of being. They will not be in chronologic order, except that this one represents the beginning.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
