You are the garden

So long as there have been humans, there have been plants. The role they play for each other's desire to evolve, move, and explore means that it is indeed favourable to be involved in this natural contract.

Most of nature has figured out that although humans are very scary, it's exceptionally beneficial to be friends with them. 

Using a term such as ‘Interdependent’ may be a little far reaching, as plants can quite happily live without humans on the planet. Yet, as Micheal Pollin points out in his presentation ‘Botany of desire’, plants understand how great it is to have humans around, as we willingly transplant species all over the globe. 

As someone who first studied Conservation and Land management, I see the importance of maintaining an ecosystem, with it’s extremely fragile balance. However I also appreciate the term ‘new ecology’, as it leans toward acceptance of the place we are currently in. Rewinding to a pristine paradise where everything rests right where it is ‘supposed to be’ i don't think is going to happen. Perhaps on a micro level, but not the Earth in its totality.

Of course, this is not to say, ‘screw it’, but more so a way to really SEE what is happening in an ecosystem.

We do our best to remove the toxic chemicals and waste products, and remember that the intelligence of nature works over such a grand scale of time and in a dynamic manner that is seemingly far more complicated than ours. And hence, chasing specific weed species around a mountain with a mattock is a royal waste of energy. 

Places often appear to be separate - This continent, that one, this country, that one, this forest, that beach, that mountain. Similar is our perspective of our bodies - all the different moving parts.

Bodyworkers, massage therapists, and physiology experts & enthusiasts alike, all soon realise it is one dancing musical orchestra.

And so too are all the areas of the Earth. It seems quite obvious that we go from here to there, this place to that place. Yet i argue that if you pay very close attention, not loosing your focus or presence, and you move a distance, you very clearly see that there was no disconnect, it was the one place the whole way. Yes we have inside and outside, where the forest appears to end and the open field starts, but this does not mean they are separate. We simply have labeled differing qualities and compartmentalised areas as a way to remember or locate.

Why bring this up? Well, with discovering our body to be One harmonious operation, the earth as the One dynamic system, perhaps with an open mind and subtle attention we can then feel into the distinct absence of the separation between ourselves and Earth. We are the garden. There is the part of the garden that has the flowers, the part that has the wings, the part that has the microbes, and the part that has the hands, shovel, and hat.

When it comes to addressing health imbalances... The analogy I personally like to use with clients is that of a Mobile, the ones that hang above a child's bed with all the hanging planes, or fairy’s, etc.The mobile hangs there in its form, balanced as it is, depending on what is hanging from each string. If you add weight or remove weight from one of the strings, the entire structure shifts, to a new alignment.

This is exactly how the body is operating, or any system for that manner. There is always the need to find the centre point of gravity, balance, and relationship. One example being our own posture. Depending on how our physical structure is, areas of tightness or laxness, posterior or anterior tilting, etc, is going to guide the rest of the body into a new position. Another one is our gastrointestinal tract. Often when we travel it can upset the microbial balance. Interestingly, indigenous peoples living along the Amazon river had gut microbiomes studied. All the worst labelled parasites were found, yet the many of the people were without symptoms, as they were in the right relationship with the environment they lived.

So we must keep this in mind - Any adjustment that happens is going to influence something else. Not only physically, but every component of life. You remove the chronic stress response for example, the individual may feel more empowered emotionally once they have restored, they quit the stress promoting job they were in, and move into employment more suited to their mental capacity.

Maybe this understanding adds weight to the significance of offering support/treatment to someone, because "what if the wrong decision was made!".

On the contrary, the action is independently insignificant, as no one thing is a seperate act.

How so? Yes the consultation and healing modality you could say helped promote the change in the person's life. But it wasn't just that, it was also the person sleeping better at night. It was also the confidence of the person to have the difficult conversation, it was additionally the friend prior who suggested the person go and see someone to help them cope. Again we fall back on the understanding that no one part is more significant than another. The holism of medicine, the sea of time, and entirety of life.