A strong message came through recently about connection (or) our “Disconnections”.

So here it is.

Don’t take any of this personally. We’ve all been disconnected at some point, myself included. What’s great is that we can recover and to a place so positive and healing we wonder what took us so long!

Here’s the thing, if we don’t do this now and get this right we run the risk of truly loosing ourselves.

If we lose our connection to nature, our connection to ourselves, our connection to each, we will be completely lost!

Our Connection to Nature

Nature is meant to be part of us and part of our daily life. If we live in cities we run the risk of never knowing nature. We may never know how or food is grown or understand how the meats we purchase in grocery stores comes to be, how these animals live and die.  We may never walk on the earth barefoot or witness a night sky free of light pollution.

Decades ago, our families were deeply connected to the earth and truly understood her complexities, how she spoke and what her words meant. We have lost so much of this culture and knowledge as we advanced technologically. But were we truly advancing? Are we forgetting who we were in the hopes of creating a great new world only to realize this new landscape is missing everything we fundamentally need?

Food today comes with a message “make it taste good and they will buy it again.” A great business model for many things, but it doesn’t necessarily work for food. We need food that is first and foremost, healthy, full for vitamins and nutrients, loved and cared for through its lifespan (and) tasty. What’s really amusing to me is that any food or beverage grown with love always tastes best!

So our mission should be to find ways to connect with nature, growing some of our own food and to find out where things we purchase come from. Supporting farming methods and livestock husbandry, nurtured by wise landlords who care for their land and what it produces. In doing so we create more of this wonder food and supply grows.

Our Connection to Ourselves

We are also disconnected from ourselves, often not really knowing who we truly are and what creates happiness in our lives. If we are sick, we take a pill or see our doctor who may also prescribes a pill. When we do this, we’ve just given our power to a pill and maybe a medical professional as well. I’m not say anything negative about the medical system as we all need intervention and help from it. What we need to understand, is that happiness and good health don’t come from a pill. Our doctor is really a guidance councilor of sorts offer encouragement and sometimes medication to help. These interventions, like a cast for a broken limb are meant to help us through difficult times, not become lifelong dependencies.

We intuitively know how to heal and just need to honor this power and potential!

It’s also important to look at how we spend our time. Are we doing things we know negatively impact our mental and physical health? Are we getting enough good sleep? Are we eating well?

Our bodies will tell us in subtle ways how we are doing. When we receive these messages it’s like a report card allowing us to make positive change.

If we don’t like our job, we have the option to do anything it takes to make our work life better, including getting another job.

If we are filling out free time with habits that don’t fulfill us or make use happy, just like a job we can change these habits. It’s really up to us what we bring into our surroundings. If something is not working, we don’t have to keep it around!

Our Connection to Community

We are also disconnected in many cases at a community level.

Let’s face it, in 2023 community and community service are weak in most areas or the western world. It’s much easier to support a cause with a card than get involved directly. It’s easy to be a private person not really knowing or wanting to know our neighbors. It’s easy to point fingers about community issue or the world at large from our computers at home, often contributing to the problem rather than offering a hand toward a solution.

This lack of community has severely damages the very fabric of our society and it hurting all of us!

We feel that if we are ok everyone is. But without a deep community connection how can we possibly know this? The truth is we don’t know if everyone is ok and often don’t care.

Community is so broken that people not being ok has become ok. We say “the problem is too big for me to make a difference” so instead we lay that guilt trip on government assuming they will come to the rescue.

If anyone in our midst is suffering, we all suffer.

If we really want to thrive individually, community needs to exist and we all need to find ways to participate however that might be.

Government is not the answer, certainly not the only answer or ultimate guide. People are the answer!

We all need to show each other the way! This is community!

How is your Connection?